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- Cultural History (10)
- History of Europe (19)
- History of North America (1)
- History of Technology (1)
- Legal History (2)
- Political History (12)
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Dedek, Helge Cluster Member
Helge Dedek is interested in and has published in the areas of (European and German) private law, in particular the law of obligations, (comparative) legal history, comparative law, legal theory, legal education, and Roman law. He is currently undertaking a research project (2008-2011) “The Rise and Fall of ‘Promise’ in the Civil Law Tradition,” supported with funding from the Fonds de Recherche sur la Societé et la Culture Québec (FRSQ).
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- Private law
- European private law
- European legal history
- Comparative law
- German private law
- Legal education
Hansen, Randall Cluster Member
Professor Randall Hansen's research interests include public policy and history. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Immigration & Governance, and has published widely on immigration, citizenship and multiculturalism. He also publishes on military and political history, including the history and morality of strategic bombing. His most recent book is Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany (Doubleday, 2008): www.fireandfury.info.
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- European Politics
- Political History
- Comparative Politics
Kopstein, Jeffrey S. Cluster Member
Jeffrey Kopstein's primary research interests are in the fields of international and European politics. He has written extensively on transatlantic relations and on ethnic conflict in democratizing and democratic societies.
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- Transatlantic Relations
- Comparative Politics
- Political Economy
Kranakis, Eda Cluster Member
Eda Kranakis’ areas of research include: History of Technology, History of European Integration, Export Processing Zones and Intellectual Property. Her current research projects explore aspects of the role of technology in European integration and globalization, focusing on the history of aviation and European airspace as well as on the history of the globalization of production.
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- History of Technology
- History of European Integration
- Export Processing Zones
- Intellectual Property
MacRae, Heather Cluster Member
Heather MacRae's research interests include Europeanization, the politics of the EU, gender regimes and German politics. Dr. MacRae has completed research on the interaction of various policy and institutional levels in re-shaping the German gender regime. Currently her research is investigating the gendered implications of transportation policies in the European Union. Media Experience: Dr. MacRae accepts inquiries from media working in TV, Radio and Print formats.
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- Comparative Politics
- Public Policy
- European Integration
- Gender Politics
Schmidtke, Oliver Cluster Member
Oliver Schmidtke is Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics and History, and he is also BC Metroplis' Domain leader for Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration. Currently his research focuses on the labour market inclusion of highly skilled immigrants as well as processes of political advocacy of migrant and minority groups. Media Experience: Dr. Schmidtke has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print media inquiries.
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- Immigration and citizenship
- Identity politics
- Comparative European politics
Thériault, Barbara Cluster Member
Barbara Thériault applies a Weberian framework to her research interests which include: Sociological theory, Sociology of religions, and the Sociology of contemporary Germany. Currently, she is engaged in several research projects and notably, The "Carriers of Diversity" - a study on religion, toleration and the police in Germany. Dr. Thériault is interested in particular types of actors: "progressive" characters within semi-total organizations. Beyond their empirical interest, these characters raise an inherent challenge; how to transform from within or survive such organizations? Additionally, she is participating in three projects with The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies.
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- Sociological theory
- Sociology of religion
- Sociology of contemporary Germany
Ugland, Trygve Cluster Member
Trygve Ugland is Chair of the Department of Political Studies at Bishop's University. His research interests focus on the fields of Comparative Politics and Comparative Public Policy, with a particular interest in European and Scandinavian Politics. Dr. Ugland has also authored and co-authored several books and articles on the impacts of European integration on national public policies.
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- Comparative politics
- Comparative public policy
- European and Scandinavian Politics
Cazorla-Sanchez, Antonio
Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez' major research focuses on the cultural and social evolution of Europe in the 20th century. Dr. Cazorla-Sanchez is currently writing a cultural biography of Spain's General Franco.
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Duyulmus, Cem Utku
Cem Utku Duyulmus has specialized on Comparative Politics and International Relations in the course of doctoral reearch, and is also interested in European Integration and Social Policy and Welfare State. Currently, his research focuses on the comparative analysis of social policies in Western and Eastern European countries, and the transformation of the welfare state in Turkey compared to Eastern and Southern European countries with a focus on social security systems, flexecurity and activation policies. Media Experience: Mr. Utku Duyulmus welcomes inquiries in TV, Radio and Print media formats.
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- Comparative Politics,
- International Relations,
- European Integration,
- Social Policy and Welfare State
Fraser, Derek R. T.
Derek Fraser is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria. His work has supported the democratization process in the Ukraine and he has organized and contributed to academic and foreign policy conferences, notably on failed states and Eastern Europe. Formerly, Derek Fraser was a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA) and President of the Victoria branch. Media Experience: Dr. Fraser has a tremendous wealth of media outreach experience on numerous programs and in a multitude of publications across TV, Radio and Print formats, and welcomes future media inquiries.
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Fury, Cheryl
Cheryl Fury is a Sessional Instructor in the Department of History and Politics at the University of New Brunswick. Her research looks at the social history of 16th and 17th century English seafarers. Dr. Fury's current focus is on the men of the East India Company.
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Ingram, Susan
Kovacev, Mirko
Mirko Kovacev's current research interests focus on the integration of immigrants into British and German societies in order to determine if national identities are an obstacle to successful integration. He also examines whether a European identity could facilitate migrants' integration process. Mr. Kovacev's wider research and related interests include national identities and cultures in the European Union and their common European approaches to immigration, the integration of immigrants into European host societies, national immigration policies in Europe, Canadian multiculturalism policy, and Canadian immigration policies. Media Experience: Mr. Kovacev has outreach experience in Radio and welcomes media requests in TV, Radio and Print formats.
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Lukic, Renéo
Renéo Lukic is a Full Professor in the Department of History at Laval University and a Senior fellow at the Institut Québécois des Hautes Études Internationales. His major research includes Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Balkans, European International Organizations, European Diplomatic History, Balkans in the 20th Century, Soviet/East European Relations in the 20th Century, Comparative Communist Systems, Soviet Foreign Policy and Russian Foreign Policy.
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Obrist, Urs
Urs Obrist is a Sessional Instructor in the Department of Historical Studies at University of Toronto at Mississauga, and in the Department of History at Ryerson University. His major research includes Canadian International Relations, Canadian History, German History, 20th century US history, and Swiss History. Dr. Obrist's Ph.D. thesis ("Canada and the Federal Republic of Germany. A NATO Relationship of Special significance") examined the transformation process of the former war enemies to Cold War Allies within NATO. The period under review is 1946 to 1957, with a focus on the years 1951 to 1955.
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Paudyn, Bartholomew
Bartholomew Paudyn is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. His primary research interests lie in the field of EMU governance, and specifically the asymmetric application of Europe’s fiscal framework, the Stability and Growth Pact.
Mr. Paudyn is currently problematizing and dissecting the EMU through a “governmentality” approach in order to understand how risk and uncertainty come to operate as dominant modes of regulation. Employing a critical genealogy, he ascertains what kind of economy of power Europe is implicated in and how this affects its spatial and temporal constitution.
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Payrow Shabani, Omid
Omid Payrow Shabani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. In general, he has been interested in bridging the gap between the theoretical framework of critical theorists and liberal nationalists in order to be able to address concrete questions of policy making in multicultural societies from the normative perspective of constitutional patriotism. Currently, Dr. Shabani has become interested the ascending role of religion in politics and what it implies for basic tenets of liberalism like the state/church separation principle and the idea of public reason. In this connection he is interested in what form this problematic has taken in the EU's member-states like France and Germany.
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Pekacz, Jolanta
Jolanta Pekacz is the Canadian Research Chair (Tier II) in European Studies and Associate Professor (Research) in the Department of History at Dalhousie University. Her major fields of interest are Memory, identity and gender in nineteenth-century Europe, French salons in the nineteenth century as lieux de mémoire, Fryderyk Chopin and social history of music.
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Reisenleitner, Markus
Markus Reisenleitner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities (European Studies Program) at York University. His current research focuses on visual and textual interpretations of global cities, European urban culture, and theories of space and the environment.
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Stan, Lavinia
Lavinia Stan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University. She has published extensively in the areas of religion and politics, and transitional justice in post-communist countries. Most of Dr. Stan's work relates to Romania, but she has also written on Poland, Hungary and the former Soviet Union republics. A graduate of the University of Toronto and a political scientist by training, she is co-editor for Europe for the Women’s Studies International Forum, a reviewer for Choice, past chair of the Wildavsky Award Committee of the Religion and Politics section of the American Political Science Association, past collaborator with the East European Constitutional Review, and an expert with Directorate-General of Justice, Freedom and Security of the European Commission.
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Vourkoutiotis, Vasilis
Vasilis Vourkoutiotis is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa. His major research includes Russian-EU relations, modern Germany, Holocaust and genocide studies.
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Waite, Gary
Gary Waite is currently the Chair of the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick. While focusing primarily on the history of popular culture and religion in early-modern Europe, his interests are eclectic, ranging from the study of the import of individual radical reformers such as David Joris, to the analysis of the vernacular Dutch drama societies called the Chambers of Rhetoric and their involvement in religious reform, to the study of the Reformation and the revival of witch-hunting in the sixteenth century. In particular, Dr. Waite seeks to find connections within and between sub-fields of history, such as Anabaptism and witchcraft, or drama and religion, that have often been neglected. While continuing to look for intersections in the Reformation and demonology/witchcraft fields, his current research focuses on popular attitudes toward Jews and Muslims in the vernacular literature of western Europe in the seventeenth century.
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White, Frederick
Frederick White is an Associate Professor in the Department of German and Russian at Memorial University of Newfoundland where he also is the Associate Dean of Arts (Research and Graduate Programs). His research includes Comparative Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Language and Literature and Cultural History, with a particular focus on Russia.
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