Keith Banting
Professor Emeritus
Department of Policy Studies & Department of Political Studies
Queen's University
keith.banting@queensu.ca

Current Projects:

• The Politics of Complex Diversity in Contested Cities 
• The Multiculturalism Policy Index
• Shared Membership Beyond National Identity: Deservingness and Solidarity in Diverse Societies
• Intergroup Relations and the Foundations of Solidarity in Diverse Societies

Zsuzsa Csergo
Associate Professor & Department Head
Department of Political Studies, Queen's University
csergo@queensu.ca

Current Projects: 

• The Politics of Complex Diversity in Contested Cities

Will Kymlicka
Professor & Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, Queen's University
kymlicka@queensu.ca

Current Projects:

• The Multiculturalism Policy Index 
• Shared Membership Beyond National Identity: Deservingness and Solidarity in Diverse Societies
• Intergroup Relations and the Foundations of Solidarity in Diverse Societies

John McGarry
Professor & Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy
Department of Political Studies, Queen's University
john.mcgarry@queensu.ca

Current Projects

• The Politics of Complex Diversity in Contested Cities 
• Explaining Consociational Success and Failure: A Comparative Analysis of Power-sharing in Bosnia, Cyprus and Northern Ireland

​Beesan Sarrouh
Visiting Researcher
School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto
beesan.sarrouh@queensu.ca

Marie-Joelle Zahar
Scientific Director
Réseau de recherche sur les opérations de paix, CÉRIUM
marie-joelle.zahar@umontreal.ca

Current Projects:

• Beyond Democratic Symbolism: elections as a tool of conflict-management in war-to-peace transitions, Université de Montréal

Dalal Daoud
Doctoral Candidate
dalal.daoud@queensu.ca

Maria Krause
Doctoral Candidate
maria.krause@queensu.ca​

Jeremy Ladd
Doctoral Candidate
j.ladd@queensu.ca

Alexandra Liebich
Doctoral Candidate
alexandra.liebich@queensu.ca

Dilan Okcuoglu
Doctoral Candidate
8do@queensu.ca

Charan Rainford
Doctoral Candidate
charan.rainford@queensu.ca

Jacob Robbins-Kanter
Doctoral Candidate
j.robbins-kanter@queensu.ca

Philippe Roseberry
Doctoral Candidate
philippe.roseberry@queensu.ca

Olga Talal
Doctoral Candidate
olga.talal@queensu.ca

Samantha Twietmeyer
Doctoral Candidate
sam.twietmeyer@queensu.ca

Rebecca Wallace
Doctoral Candidate
r.wallace@queensu.ca

Lev Marder
Social Science and Humanities Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow: 2018/10 - 2019/10
lm190@queensu.ca

Lev Marder holds a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Philosophy Department and Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity, working under the supervision of Will Kymlicka. Lev received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California-Irvine. His broad areas of expertise include political theory, history of political thought, law and politics, international relations, and theories of representation. His research focuses on mapping the historical and contemporary political uses of ignorance and asks if practices of ignorance can help maintain political order, democratic politics, international relations, and serve other desirable objectives. How has the enforcement of ignorance of certain differences between individuals and groups in the past and the present time engendered a sense of community, un/equal opportunities, and affected the ability of some to rule over others? His research on the production and uses of ignorance appears in the Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Journal of International Political Theory, and Constellations. During his 2018-2020 Fellowship, Lev will examine how democratic regimes incorporate practices of ignorance. The objective is to formulate recommendations for cultivating ignorance conducive to democratic decision-making, political participation, and protection of minority rights and vulnerable groups.

Duygu Ozluk
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Post-Doctoral Fellow: 2018/10 - 2019/10
do22@queensu.ca

Project:
Democracy Promotion: Canada’s Contributions and Prospects

This research project aims to understand: What are the main features of Canadian democracy promotion? How did the initiatives of U.S. democracy promotion impact Canada’s initial democracy promotion involvements? What was Canada's motivation in founding the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, later renamed Rights and Democracy? How do the Harper and Trudeau governments differentiate on democracy promotion? What is the future of Canada’s democracy promotion?

Canada has played a significant role in democracy promotion since the 1980's as a liberal democratic state and part of the Western World. Taking into consideration both the Mulroney government and Harper government’s approaches towards democracy promotion, Canada’s waning engagement on democracy promotion seemed to change when the Trudeau government put more emphasis on democracy supporting institutions. However, creating a new agency committed to democracy promotion is still not on the Canadian government's agenda. Therefore, this project critically analyzes the concept of democracy promotion and Canada’s role in democracy promotion by focusing on past practices, operations of organizations, and discourses of governments.

Clayton Chin
Visiting Researcher: 2018/10 - 2018/12
clayton.chin@unimelb.edu.au

Project:
Multicultural Nationalism: Political Belonging and Community for Diverse States

During his time with the Centre, Clayton Chin focused on completing two papers addressing the question of reconsidering the nature of political community under conditions of diverse cultural populations. The first paper focused on the concept of belonging, examining its treatment in critical and normative literatures, and reconciling them through a model of “multicultural belonging”. The second paper re-examined the relationship between multiculturalism and nationalism, outlining the space and conditions for a multicultural form of nationalism. Both are part of a larger theoretical and empirical project entitled Multicultural Nationalism: Political Belonging and Identity in the Age of Diversity.