Department of Political Studies
Queen's UniversitySupervisory Interests of Faculty
It is important for prospective students to have a potential supervisor in mind before applying to one of our graduate programs. The following is a list of topics and areas that are of interest to our faculty members.
| Faculty | Supervisory Interests |
|---|---|
| G. Grant Amyot | Italian politics; European politics; European Union; political economy; economic policy; interest groups; business; labour; unions; industrial relations; welfare state; parties; elections; Marxism; methodology and philosophy of social science |
| Abigail Bakan | Anti-oppression politics and Marxist theory, including intersections of gender, race and class; theories of oppression, alienation and exploitation in political economy; Political Economy of aging; Diaspora and Citizenship; Employment equity policy in Canada |
| Keith Banting | Public policy, especially social policy, in Canada and OECD countries; ethnic diversity, multiculturalism, social integration and public policy; federalism and public policy inCanada and in western democracies |
| Catherine Conaghan | Latin American politics, Andean politics, regime transitions, democratization, political corruption, political elites, media/civil society/party politics in Latin America, elections, policy making, neoliberalism |
| Zsuzsa Csergo |
Nationalism and the politics of ethnicity, Central and East European politics, majority-minority conflict and cooperation, the politics of language use, democracy and democratization, European integration |
| Colin Farrelly | Contemporary politicay theory/philosophy, including: distributive justice; ideal/non-ideal thoery; deliberative democracy; virtue jurisprudence; Analytical Marxism; science and justice - especially the biomedical sciences (e.g. genetics, human enhancement) |
| Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant | Political behaviour, elections, media and politics, women and politics, political knowledge/information, and methodologies |
| J. Andrew Grant | International Relations, International Political Economy, African Politics, Global Governance, Regionalism and Regionalization, Natural Resources and Civil Conflict, Secessionist Movements, Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Transitional Justice |
| David Haglund | American foreign policy; Canadian foreign policy; transatlantic relations; Canada-US relations |
| Oded Haklai | Politics of nationalism and ethnicity; state-society relations; theories of mobilization; Middle East politics; politics of Israel; Palestinian-Israeli relations |
| Janet Hiebert | Politics of Rights (Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand); Canadian federalism |
| Andrew Lister | Pluralism and toleration; moral conflict and compromise; public reason, perfectionism, and neutrality; marriage and the family; theories of justice |
| Margaret Little | Welfare; poverty; retraining; Canadian social policy |
| Eleanor MacDonald | Contemporary political thought, including: identity politics, feminist theory, critical theory, postmodern theory, Marxist theory, anti-racist theory, psychoanalytic theory, environmental theory, cultural studies, narrative theory, queer theory, race and sexuality studies, feminism, and transgender politics |
| John McGarry | Ethnic and national conflict; state responses to ethnic and national diversity; consociationalism; federalism; integrationism; asymmetrical federalism; European integration and minority nationalism; politics of Iraq; Politics of Northern Ireland; electoral systems in divided societies. policing divided societies |
| Margaret Moore | Contemporary political philosophy including global justice theory (global redistributive justice and justice as applied to non-ideal situations, e.g. just war theory), ethics of nationalism, liberal constitutionalism – e.g., rights, equality, citizenship theory, democratic theory |
| Kim Richard Nossal | Canadian foreign and defence policy; Australian foreign policy; international sanctions; humanitarian intervention |
| Charles Pentland | European Union enlargement, foreign and security policy; Balkans and former Soviet Union; transatlantic relations - Canada, US, Europe; international organizations; global governance |
| Jonathan Rose | Canadian Politics, mass media, political communication, political advertising, propaganda |
| Susanne Soederberg | Global Political Economy, Comparative Political Economy; Global Development, Global Finance (IMF, World Bank, Consumer Credit; Politics of Money); North-South Relations, Global Governance; Corporate Power (Socially Responsible Investment, Shareholder Activism, especially 'Green Activism'; Neoliberalism; Marxism |
| Stéfanie von Hlatky | International Relations Theory; Foreign Policy; Security Studies; Military Alliances; Canada-US Relations |
| Phillip Wood | Historical and regional political economy; the politics of industrial restructuring; American politics; empirical Marxism; the politics of prisons |