The Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s has a wide range of faculty expertise. Four broad themes stand out as key areas of specialisation within our program:
The Political Economy of Development
- Diana Cordoba – political ecology; critical agrarian studies; social justice; environmental sustainability; Latin America
- Rebecca Hall – resource extraction; feminist political economy; decolonization; settler colonialism
- Reena Kukreja – feminist political economy, migration, masculinities, postcolonial feminism, South Asia, Caste, community-based research
- David McDonald – municipal governance; public versus private service delivery (water, electricity and health care); urbanization; migration
- Bernadette P. Resurreccion – Feminist political ecology; Natural resource management, climate change and livelihoods; sustainability transitions
- Scott Rutherford – Canadian history, social movements, settler-colonialism, cultural politics of development in North America
- Susanne Soederberg – housing insecurity and urban displacement; finance and debt (public and private); corporate power in development
- Marcus Taylor – labour and livelihoods; agriculture and development; anti-poverty programmes and microfinance
- Kyla Tienhaara – globalisation; trade agreements; corporations and development
The Cultural Politics of Development
- Karen Dubinsky – global childhoods (adoption/migration history and the politics of childhood); Cuban musical cultures; Canadian/Third world relations; transnational historical perspectives
- Marc Epprecht – social history in southern Africa; gender, sexuality and development; HIV/AIDS; pedagogies for development
- Rebecca Hall – resource extraction; feminist political economy; decolonization; settler colonialism
- Reena Kukreja – feminist political economy, migration, masculinities, postcolonial feminism, South Asia, Caste, community-based research
- Paritosh Kumar – the politics of tradition and modernity; Hindu Right and religious revivalism in India; development ethics
- Bernadette P. Resurreccion – feminist political ecology; natural resource management, climate change and livelihoods; sustainability transition
Indigenous Studies
- Rebecca Hall – resource extraction; feminist political economy; decolonization; settler colonialism
- Robert Lovelace – aboriginal studies in Canada and North America
- Scott Rutherford – Canadian history, social movements, settler-colonialism, cultural politics of development in North America
Development and Sustainability
- Kilian Atuoye - Global Health; Health Equity; Social Epidemiology; Environment and Health; Food Security; Healthcare Access and Utilization
- Diana Cordoba – political ecology; critical agrarian studies; social justice; environmental sustainability; Latin America
- Marc Epprecht – environment and health, especially in urban contexts in South Africa
- Mark Hostetler – political ecology; sustainability research; livelihoods approaches
- Paritosh Kumar – globalisation and agriculture; plant genetic resources
- David McDonald – urbanisation and environmental justice; water politics
- Bernadette P. Resurreccion – feminist political ecology; natural resource management, climate change and livelihoods; sustainability transitions
- Susanne Soederberg – cities, housing and vulnerabilities; disaster management
- Marcus Taylor – climate change; agriculture and agrarian change; political ecology
- Kyla Tienhaara – clean energy; environmental regulation and trade policy
Cross-Appointed Faculty (can sole-supervise DEVS students)
- Elijah Bisung (School of Kinesiology and Health Studies) – social and environmental production of health; environmental health promotion; environmental stress; psychosocial health; water insecurity and safe sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Colleen Davison (Department of Public Health Sciences) – global health research; child and adolescent health, child rights, health equity and systems approaches to health promotion particularly for vulnerable groups; projects in Nunavut, Lebanon, Thailand and Mongolia.
- Allison Goebel (School of Environmental Studies) – gender, environment and development in Africa; environmental justice; women, health and the environment; local food issues and movements; urbanization and housing; social impacts of climate change
- Carolyn Prouse (Department of Geography and Planning - political ecology, social reproduction, critical race feminism, global urbanism
- Ariel Salzmann (Department of History) – world regions, past and present; state society relations in the historic Middle East; theories of state formation; histories of Mediterranean societies; the making of global capitalism
- Sarah Shulist (Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures) – Indigenous language revitalization; Linguistic and political anthropology; Indigenous/state relations; Collaborative ethnographic research