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Phil Triadafilopoulos is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is also the Associate Director of Public Policy at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He teaches courses in public policy at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and conducts research in the areas of immigration and citizenship policy in Europe and North America. His current research examines the extension of public funding for […]

Axel van der Berg’s main empirical research deals with the question whether and how different configurations of social protection and labour market policy undermine or strengthen economic efficiency. His theoretical interests range from the debates about the status of rational choice theory and its cultural-institutional alternatives within the social sciences, flawed attempts to integrate ‘agency’ and ‘structure’ in social science explanatory models, and fads and fashions in contemporary, especially self-declared ‘critical’ social theory. Research Interests: Economic sociology, Welfare states and […]

Rianne Mahon holds the CIGI chair in comparative family and social policy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. Her earlier work focused on unions and labour market restructuring in Canada and Sweden. Over the past decade she has produced numerous articles and book chapters on the politics of childcare at multiple scales. Dr. Mahon’s current SSHRC funded research project looks at policy learning in a multi-scalar world: Canada, Korea, Sweden and the OECD’s […]

Merje Kuus’ research focuses on political geography and geopolitics-particularly on policy-making processes in complex bureaucratic structures. In broad terms, it investigates how political practices are underpinned by spatially defined categories like center and margin, inside and outside, self and other. These categories are central to the processes by which complex political issues come to be defined and managed in a particular manner. Within that problematic, Dr. Kuus’ interests converge on the question of how specifically spatial categories function in daily […]

William Walters is a Professor of Politics in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology & Anthropology as well as an FPA Research Excellence Chair (2019-22) at Carleton University. His work examines the technopolitics of governing borders and human mobility and focuses on the emergence of new forms of identification and authentication such as the e-passport. He has a previous book project that explores the recent uptake of Foucauldian political sociology within international relations. Other previous research includes a contribution […]

Robert Gould is an expert on examination of contemporary discourses of immigration and identity in a range of European countries – such as Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Spain, United Kingdom, France and Switzerland. He also undertakes investigation of the statements in speeches and official documents from Brussels on the same topics. Dr. Gould has also worked on the media and political discourses concerning minorities in Latvia.   Research Interests: Immigration and identity discourses in a range of European countries – Austria, […]

Jane Jenson holds the Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance at the Université de Montréal, where she is professor of Political Science. She is a member of the Successful Societies Programme of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). She was the founding Director of the Université de Montréal/McGill University Institute of European Studies (2001-05). Her current research interests cover a wide spectrum, including social policy, social movements, citizenship, diversity, gender studies and knowledge transfer. She is frequently invited […]

Heather Hartung-MacRae’s is the president of the European Community Studies Association Canada (ECSA-C) 2018-2020. Her 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. Hartung-MacRae accepts inquiries from media working in TV, Radio and Print formats. Research Interests: Comparative […]