Surulola Eke

Research Interests

• Global Politics
• Global Development Studies
• Conflict and Cooperation in Natural Resources Sectors
• Politics of Labour 
• Migration Politics

Brief Biography

Dr. Surulola Eke is an Adjunct Professor and Peacock Fellow in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, where he teaches African Politics, Comparative Politics, Political Economy, and Global Governance. Based on his regular fieldwork across Africa – including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and South Africa – he has independently and collaboratively authored 25 refereed papers on the dynamics of conflict and cooperation impacting agrarian political economies, which have been published in scholarly journals such as World Development, Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Journal of Global Security Studies, Third World Quarterly, Review of African Political Economy, etc. He has also chaired scholarly panels on development, conflict, and cooperation in agrarian political economies at international conferences organised by the International Studies Association and the British International Studies Association, etc. Dr. Eke was a recipient of Canada’s most prestigious postdoctoral fellowship, the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2020, Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Grant in 2022, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Insight Development Grant awards in 2023 and 2025 – as well as mentorship and teaching awards in 2023 and 2024, respectively.

Teaching

POLS 441 Gender and International Relations (Winter 2026)

POLS 395 Topics in International Political Economy (Fall 2025)

POLS 499 Politics of Free Expression in Canada and the World (Summer 2025)