Province:Nova Scotia
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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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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Whaley, Leigh Ann
Leigh Ann Whaley is a Full Professor in the Department of History and Classics at Acadia University. The French Revolution, European women and science, French Women in World War II and the History of Women in Medicine from the Middle Ages to the 18th century are her major fields of interest.
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Black, David R. Cluster Member
David Black's is the Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University. His current research interests focus on Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa, with emphases on human security, development assistance, multilateral diplomacy and extractive industry investment. Dr. Black's research and publications have also addressed comparative western policies toward Africa, the foreign policy of post-apartheid South Africa, and Sport and World Politics.
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- Political Science
- International Studies
- International Development
Davis, Jerome Cluster Member
Jerome Davis holds the Canada Research Chair in Oil and Natural Gas Policy at the Dalhousie Arts and Social Sciences Faculty. His current projects and areas of research focus on: a Canadian Foundation for Innovation financed study on the nature of change within the oil industry and its short and long range significance for Canada; studying newer forms of offshore project management (such as the British CRINE and the Norwegian NORSOK) and the implications these forms pose for offshore contractors and for national regulatory authorities; as well as studying the problems of regulatory coordination in the Danish context (Denmark and Greenland, Denmark and the Faeroe Islands) and will be engaged in investigating similar problems occurring in Canada (the Atlantic Accords).
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- Oil industry and its significance for Canada
- New forms of offshore project management
Laursen, Finn Cluster Member
Finn Laursen holds the Canada Research Chair in European Union (EU) Studies at the Dalhousie Arts and Social Sciences Faculty and is also Director of Dalhousie's European Union Centre of Excellence (EUCE). His recent research interests include: European integration, EU Treaties, EU in a global system, Enlargements of the EU, and comparative regional integration. Forthcoming, Dr. Laursen has two books from the 3rd annual EUCE conference at Dalhousie University: Comparative Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010); and The EU and Federalism: Polities and Policies Compared (Aldreshot: Ashgate, 2010). Media Experience: Dr. Laursen has extensive TV and Radio interview experience in many countries (outside of Canada), and most recently in Italy in 2009.
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