Our Experts

Sabrina Paillé holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in sociology from the University of Quebec in Montreal and pursued doctoral studies at York University. Her research has notably focused on the sociology of nationalism, anti-immigration and anti-gender reactions, and far-right and populist movements in Germany and Europe. She has several years of experience as a teaching assistant, research assistant, and in the community sector. She joined the CPN-PREV training team in 2021 and now serves as the Capacity Development […]

Dr. Katarzyna Granat is a Junior Research Fellow and a Marie Curie Fellow at Durham University Law School. Prior to this position Katarzyna was 2014-2015 Emile Noël Fellow at the New York University Jean Monnet Centre. She completed her PhD at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. She also holds an LLM (EUI) and a master degree in law from Warsaw University. In addition she has interned at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg (chambers of […]

Johannes Müller Gómez is a doctoral researcher at the Université de Montréal. In his PhD project, he analyses the implementation of international agreements in multi-level systems. From 2014 to 2017, he was a research associate at the Jean Monnet chair and the Centre for Turkey and EU Studies. He was the programme director for political science and public administration at the Turkish-German University in Istanbul, manager of the Jean Monnet project SUMMIT and project officer for the Jean Monnet Centre […]

Laurent Pech is Professor of European Law and Head of the Law and Politics Department at Middlesex University London. Laurent is also a Visiting Professor of Law at Bordeaux University. Professor Pech specialises in EU Public Law and has lectured in a variety of subjects including EU Constitutional Law, EU Internal Market Law, EU Competition Law and EU Fundamental Rights Law. Professor Pech is currently a member of the editorial board of the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law and […]

Dr. Michael Ungar is among the best known writers and researchers on the topic of resilience in the world. His work has changed the way resilience is understood, shifting the focus from individual traits to the interactions between people and their families, schools, workplaces, and communities. As the Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience and Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University, as well as a family therapist, he has helped to identify the most important factors […]

Saime Özçürümez (Ph.D., McGill) is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Başkent University. She conducts research and publishes on migration policy and politics in the European Union, Turkey, and Canada, health and immigration, gender and immigration, irregular immigration, integration and citizenship, media representation of migrants, comparative politics of deliberative democracy, and Europeanization research agenda. She has articles published in Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Turkish Studies, Comparative European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Uluslararasi Iliskiler-International Relations, Women’s Studies International Forum, European Political […]

Dr. Agnieszka Weinar is a Adjunct Research Professor at the Institute for European and Russian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa. She is also a Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and Metropolis International, Center for European Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa. Her research focuses on the international dimension of migration policy and more specifically on the Europeanization of migration policies in the EU. Dr. Weinar has over 15 years of […]

In 1990, Victor Konrad accepted the position as founding Executive Director of the Fulbright Program between Canada and the United States. Dr. Konrad has devoted his career to higher education advancement and development between these neighbouring countries. His research is centred on the transfer of culture across borders, and he has published extensively about Native American encounters with Europeans, cultural landscape transitions, and Canada-U.S. borderlands. Professor Konrad has taught at universities in the United States and Canada, and from 1980 […]

Dr. Can E. Mutlu is an Associate Professor of Global Politics at Acadia University. His published research deals with borders and mobility, critical approaches to security, exceptionalism, race and ethnicity. He has carried out extensive research on issues such as the Europeanization of migration and asylum policy in Turkey, migrations from Syria to Turkey, the governance of refugee crises, and the externalization of border controls. Research Interests: Borders and mobility, Critical approaches to security studies, International political sociology, Exceptionalism, Race, and […]

Dr. Benjamin Muller is Associate Professor with the Departments of Political Science at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario. His research and publications reflect his interdisciplinary background in international relations theory and contemporary social and political thought, covering issues from contemporary aviation security and trusted traveler programs, to the increasing reliance on biometric technology and risk management in contemporary border security, to a critical security studies analysis of Hizballah. In general, Dr. Muller is interested in the […]

Pablo Ouziel is co-founder of the Cedar Trees Institute at the University of Victoria. He is Associate Fellowship at the Centre for Global Studies at the same university and is a visiting fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain and the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Pablo’s research interests include public philosophy, collective presences, horizontality, nonviolence and civic democracy. By standing within the tradition of public philosophy, the core of his work is centred on excavating […]

Ahmed Hamila is Winer-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Cambridge. Currently he is also the  FNRS-F.R.S. research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Université Libre de Bruxelles and the President of the Young Researchers Network of the European Community Studies Association – Canada. Ahmed was awarded the Robert Bourassa Foundation Excellence Award for the most promising doctoral thesis project in European Studies. The title of his PHD is: European Asylum Policy Related to Sexual Orientation: A Common System, Several Implementation Models. Ahmed’s research […]

Antoine Rayroux works as consultant in international affairs, with expertise in Canada-Europe relations, and he is a visiting scholar at CÉRIUM – the Centre for International Studies at the Université de Montréal. He is currently involved in various EU-funded projects that foster the policy dialogue with Canada – covering both trade agreement (CETA) and strategic partnership agreement (SPA). Prior to that, he was a lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Concordia University and has been a Fulbright-Schuman visiting scholar at […]

Merli Tamtik is a Assistant Professor at the Faculty of  Education, University of Manitoba. Her research project focuses on policy coordination issues in Canadian innovation policy. She also works as a sessional instructor at Western University, teaching courses in educational policy and international education. Dr. Tamtik has graduated from the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE), Faculty of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education (LHAE) at the University of Toronto. Her research projects have examined the Open Method of Coordination […]

Helga Hallgrimsdottir joined the School of Public Administration in 2017. She is fellow at the Centre for Global Studies, a senior researcher for the project Borders in Globalization (BIG) and the current president of the University’s Faculty Association.  Helga Hallgrimsdottir is a historical comparative sociologist, using history and comparison to get perspective on what human experiences mean. Prior to her appointment at the School, she was appointed to the Department of Sociology at UVic.

Martin Geiger is Associate Professor at Carleton University and is cross-appointed with the Department of Political Science and the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies . Martin is leading a project “Smart New Border World – Information Technologies and Security Industries in the Management of Human Cross-Border Mobility in North America”. He recently received a SSHRC Insight Development Grant to continue his work on international organizations in migration management. Martin is a collaborator in a EU-funded, multi-year “Horizon 2020” […]