About

Olivia Howells is a master’s student in Political Studies at Queen’s University, specializing in International Relations. Olivia holds a B.A. (Hons.) in from Queen's, majoring in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE). She is also the recipient of the Joseph-Armand Bombardier (CGS-M) award. Olivia’s research is concerned with collective memory and ontological security, as well as the security implications of critical minerals. Her master’s research project (MRP) is focused on Russian strategic culture and the use of memory diplomacy as a legitimation strategy. Olivia is currently working as a Research Assistant for Dr J. Andrew Grant, namely in areas of natural resource governance and private security. She is the recipient of a Young MINDS Targeted Engagement Grant from the Department of National Defence (DND) for her research on the security implications of China’s Arctic ambitions. More recently, she is working on a DND Targeted Engagement Grant focused on the security implications of Africa’s mineral endowment. She has been invited to present her research at both national and international conferences, including those of the International Studies Association (ISA) and the CDA Institute.

Research Interests

• International Relations
• Ontological Security
• Energy Security

Recent Publications

• J. Andrew Grant, Olivia Howells, Abdiasis Issa, and Badriyya Yusuf. (Under review). “Shadow Interregionalisms in Africa: Insights from Maritime Regionalisms in the Gulf of Guinea.” African Security.

Online

• Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/LivHowells
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivia-howells-5078ab1a9

About

Chelsea Dunn is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University where she specializes in International Relations and Comparative Politics. She holds an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Victoria and a B.A. (Hons.) in Political Studies from Queen's. Chelsea’s research considers the global political economy of environmental governance. Using a feminist historical materialist lens, she aims to examine the global relations of power that produce uneven ecological outcomes in the context of climate change. Specifically, her work interrogates efforts to contain escalating ecological disruptions in urban settings, which are simultaneously spaces of everyday survival—linking housing, employment, and social reproduction—and sites of production and circulation driving global capitalism.

Chelsea’s doctoral research focuses on the multi-scalar governance of flooding in Manila, Philippines. By exploring how flooding alters urban rhythms of survival and accumulation in a relational manner, she hopes to reveal who benefits from current configurations of flood governance and the power relations therein. She is also currently working on a project that examines the discourses, myths, and governance practices surrounding climate change-induced migration and displacement.

Research Interests

• Global Political Economy
• Environmental Politics
• International Relations

Recent Publications

• Dunn, C. and Sharma, S. E. (under review). ‘Governing climate-induced displacement: Resilience and rendering disposable in the global South.’ Review of International Political Economy.

Online

• Twitter/X: https://x.com/ChelseaMDunn

About

Philip T. Gebert is a political advisor in Canada’s federal government, specializing in policy analysis, strategic planning, and stakeholder engagement, with a focus on complex policy issues and geopolitics. Known for his strong communication skills and ability to build high-level partnerships, he excels in fast-paced, politically sensitive environments.

A former Royal Canadian Air Force officer, he now serves as an officer in the Royal Westminster Regiment. He holds a MA in War Studies and a BA in Political Science (Hon.) from the Royal Military College of Canada, and has studied International Affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. His writing reflects a deep interest in geopolitics, political philosophy, international economics, and civil-military relations.

Research Interests

• Civil-Military Relations
• Great Power Competition
• American Foreign and Defence Policy

Recent Publications

• Gebert, Philip T. “The Populist Disruption: Trump and Contemporary American Civil-Military Relations.” Centre for International and Defence Policy (April 2025).
• Gebert, Philip T. “President Biden’s Restrained-Hamiltonian Foreign Policy.” Canadian Journal of American Studies vol. 54, no.2 (August 2024): 153-169.

Online

1. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philiptgebert

About

Dr. Aditi Malhotra is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Army Journal. She is also a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

Malhotra is the author of two books, Understanding Security Role Evolution of US, China and India: Setting the Stage (Routledge, 2022), and India in the Indo-Pacific: Understanding India's Security Orientation towards Southeast and East Asia (Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2022). Before her current role, she was the co-editor for the Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies (Graz, Austria). She was previously a Visiting Fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center (Washington, D.C.) and the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (Oslo).

Malhotra has also held positions as a Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Advanced Studies and an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) in India. At CLAWS, she was also the deputy editor of Scholar Warrior, a bi-annual security journal.

Malhotra earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Muenster, Germany, and holds a Master’s in International Studies from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. She writes on security issues in the Indo-Pacific region and nuclear deterrence and proliferation in Southern Asia.

Research Interests

• Indo-Pacific Security
• International Relations
• Nuclear proliferation and deterrence   

Recent Publications

• Engagement, not Entanglement: India’s Relationship with the Quad, May 1, 2023, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2023/05/01/engagement-not-entanglement-indias-relationship-with-the-quad/
• Is India the Balancer in the Indo-Pacific? InkStick, April 23, 2023, https://inkstickmedia.com/is-india-the-balancer-in-the-indo-pacific/
• Understanding Security Role Evolution of US, China and India: Setting the Stage, Routledge, December 2022.
• India in the Indo-Pacific: Understanding India’s Security Role Evolution towards Southeast Asia and East Asia, Verlag Barbara Budrich, June 2022.
• “Constructivist Approaches to the International Relations of South Asia,” In Šumit Ganguly and Frank O’Donnell (eds.), Routledge Handbook of the International Relations of South Asia, Routledge, October 2022.

Online

• Website: https://aditimalhotra.com/
• LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/aditi-malhotra-42b35727
• Twitter/X: https://x.com/aditi_malhotra_

About

Dr. Andrew L. Brown is an associate professor at the Royal Military College of Canada, where he teaches history and serves as the Associate Chair of the War Studies graduate program. He is also an Army Intelligence Officer. He has served in the Royal Canadian Regiment, 3 Commando (the Canadian Airborne Regiment), Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, and in various capacities at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. He is a graduate of the Canadian Army Command and Staff College and the Joint Command and Staff Programme. His operational deployments include tours in Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Afghanistan.

Research Interests

• The Canadian Army in the World Wars
• Officer and NCO training in the Canadian Army
• The role of intelligence in military operations

Recent Publications

• “Battle Exhaustion and Manpower Conservation:  Canadian Army ‘Human Salvage Operations’ in Northwest Europe, 1944-45.”  Journal of Military History 89, no. 2 (2025): 397-423.  

• Building the Army’s Backbone:  Canadian Non-Commissioned Officers in the Second World War.  UBC Press, 2021.   

• “Stepping in New Directions:  The Canadian Army’s Observer Program in the Asia-Pacific Region, 1944-45.”  Canadian Military History 28, no.1/article 2 (2019):  1-36. 

• “Cutting its Coat According to the Cloth:  the Canadian Militia and Staff Training before the Great War.”  War & Society 34, no. 4 (October 2015):  263-286. 

• “New Men in the Line: An Assessment of Reinforcements to the 48th Highlanders in Italy, January-October 1944.”  Canadian Military History 21, no. 3 (2012):  35-47.

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About

Dr Marie-Michèle Doucet is a professor at the Department of history at the Royal Military College of Canada since 2016. She teaches social European history, international relations history of the first half of the 20th century as well as many specialized classes in history of genocide and women's history.

She completed her PhD in history in 2016 at the University of Montreal under the supervision of professor Carl Bouchard. Her main field of research are European peace movements after the First World War, as well as women's roles and places in early 20th century European society. She also has many publications on the topic of women and the Armenian genocide. Dr Doucet is currently chair of the Department of History.

Research Interests:

• Gender studies
• Women and security
• Disarmament

Recent Publications:

• Peacekeeping: Perspectives Old and New, edited by Howard Coombs, Magali Deleuze, Kevin Brushett & Marie-Michèle Doucet, Martello Papers, April 2023
• « Celles qui n’entrent pas dans la guerre : quand les pacifistes françaises préparent la paix et la réconciliation (1915-1920) », La paix dans la guerre. Espoirs et expériences de paix (1914-1919), Jean-Michel Guieu & Stéphane Tison (eds.), Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2022. 
• « ‘So That Our Sons Have Not Died in Vain': Calls for Peace from Pacifist and Non-pacifist Mothers after the Great War », Beyond the Great War: Making Peace in a Disordered World, Norman Ingram et Carl Bouchard (eds.), University of Toronto Press, 2022.
• « Les pacifistes françaises et l’occupation de la Ruhr », numéro spécial « 1918-1920 : les peuples font la paix », sous la direction de Carl Bouchard et Jean-Michel Guieu, Matériaux pour l’histoire de notre temps, Vol. 2, No. 129-130, 2019, pp. 48-53. 
• « Faire la paix par l’humanitaire. Les pacifistes françaises au secours des enfants d’Allemagne, un premier pas vers un rapprochement franco-allemand (1919-1925) », numéro spécial « Paix, pacifisme et dissidence en temps de guerre (XXe- XXIe) », Cahiers d’Histoire, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2018, pp. 25-41.

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About

Amarnath Amarasingam is an Assistant Professor in the School of Religion, and is cross-appointed to the Department of Political Studies, at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. His research interests are in terrorism, radicalization and extremism, conspiracy theories, online communities, diaspora politics, post-war reconstruction, and the sociology of religion. He is the author of Pain, Pride, and Politics: Sri Lankan Tamil Activism in Canada (2015), and the co-editor of Stress Tested: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Canadian National Security (2021) and Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War (2016). He has also published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, has presented papers at over 100 national and international conferences, and has written for The New York Times, The Monkey Case, The Washington Post, CNN, Politico, The Atlantic, and Foreign Affairs. He has been interviewed on CNN, PBS Newshour, CBC, BBC, and a variety of other media outlets.

Dr. Amarasingam is an experienced field researcher, having conducted hundreds of interviews for his PhD dissertation on social movement activism, organizational dynamics, and youth identity in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, as well as over 50 interviews with former fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, or Tamil Tigers) throughout the former war zones of Sri Lanka in 2013 and 2014. He has also conducted field research in Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Somalia, Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine. He co-directed a study on foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq, based at the University of Waterloo, for six years during which he conducted numerous social media and in-person interviews with current and former foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq, as well as parents and close friends of those who travelled to fight. He has also conducted several interviews with former extremists on the far-right and conspiratorial movements.

Research Interests

Recent Publications

Online

• Twitter: @AmarAmarasingam

About

Caroline D’Amours, earned a BA in history and an MA in Canadian military history from Université Laval. She earned her PhD in Canadian military history from the University of Ottawa in 2015. Her thesis focused on infantry reinforcement training for the Canadian Army during the Second World War (1939-1945). Dr. D’Amours was then a postdoctoral fellow with the International History Institute at Boston University where she focused on the participation of the Lower St. Lawrence region in the Second World War. Her current research focuses on Quebec’s contribution to the conflict and the combat training of the Canadian Army. She is also interested in the impact of culture on the behaviour of soldiers and populations in conflict situations.

Research Interests

• Military Culture
• French Canada’s reaction to, and participation in, world wars
• Canadian Army Combat Training in the Second World War

Recent Publications

• 2025 | “’La victoire par l’épargne’ : mobiliser le Québec pour l’achat des Obligations de la Victoire lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1940-1945)”, Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française (in press).

• 2025 | “Des groups mobilisés derrière la conscription: les élites rimouskoises et le Camp 55”, Bulletin d’histoire politique (in press).

• 2025 | “Ready for combat? The impact of French-Canadian Infantry Reinforcements during the Battle of the Scheldt,” in Nicholas Wheeler (ed.), Canada and the Liberation of the Scheldt, 1944-1945, Vancouver, UBC Press (accepted)

• 2024 | Caroline D’Amours, Hannah Young and Catherine Mavriplis, The Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering Program: Thirty Years of Action Across Canada, from 1989 to 2021. Cham, Springer Nature, 179 p. 

• 2023 | “Le Centre d’instruction no 55 à Rimouski”, in Soldats de la côte : L’histoire régimentaire des Fusiliers du St-Laurent, 1869-2019 (In Press). 

Online

• Website: https://www.rmc-cmr.ca/en/history/caroline-damours
• LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/caroline-d-amours-6ab33134/en