{"id":433,"date":"2009-11-16T16:55:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T21:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/canadianstudies\/?page_id=433"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:06:19","slug":"nimijean-richard","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/canadianstudies\/people\/nimijean-richard\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Nimijean"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Please note that Richard Nimijean is on sabbatical between January 1 to December 31, 2026.<\/h3>\n<h3><strong><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Richard began teaching in the School of Canadian Studies in 1999. Educated in Political Science and Public Policy, he has researched, written, and taught in the areas of Canadian Studies, Canadian politics and public policy, regional innovation systems, science and technology policy, and scholarly communication.<\/p>\n<p>Richard has received two Professional Achievement Awards (Instructor) from Carleton University (2008-09 and 2018). He was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Center for the Study of Canada, The State University of New York College at Plattsburgh (April 2013). He received an Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility Certificate to give a series of presentations at the Alexandra Ioan Cuza University of Ia\u0219i (Romania) (April 24-28, 2017). \u00a0Richard was a Visiting Professor in the Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) in 2020-21.<\/p>\n<p>Richard is very active in the Canadian Studies community, participating in activities sponsored by the International Council of Canadian Studies, the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, the British Association of Canadian Studies, the Mexican Association of Canadian Studies, and Global Affairs Canada. He has delivered talks on Canadian Studies across Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Chile, and Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>He previously served as the School\u2019s Undergraduate Supervisor (2003-07; 2009-10; 2011-13; 2021-23; July-December 2024) Graduate Supervisor (July-December 2024), and was the Assistant Dean (Recruitment and First-Year Programs) in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2009-14).<\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<p>Richard\u2019s research interests focus on national identity and the branding of Canada, the relationship between Canada&#8217;s role as a global actor and the Canadian identity, and the politics of the brand state. Current research and writing projects include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cross-border perspectives on Canada-US relations<\/li>\n<li>Global issues from a Canadian perspective<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Books<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kirkey, Christopher, and Richard Nimijean, eds. 2022.<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-030-86574-0\">The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad. <\/a><\/em>Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.<\/li>\n<li>Carment, David, and Richard Nimijean, eds. 2021.<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-030-70686-9\">Political Turmoil in a Tumultuous World: Canada Among Nations 2020<\/a>. <\/em>Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.<\/li>\n<li>Carment, David, and Richard Nimijean, eds.<i>\u00a02019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Canada-Nation-Branding-and-Domestic-Politics\/Nimijean-Carment\/p\/book\/9780367731151\">Canada, Nation Branding and Domestic Politics<\/a><\/i>. London: Routledge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Journal Articles and Book Chapters<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Elephant Still Twitches: Trudeau\u2019s Management of Canada\u2013U.S. Relations in the America First Era.\u201d In The Trudeau Record, edited by Laura Macdonald, Katherine Scott, and Stuart Trew, 255-267. Halifax: Lorimer, 2024. https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/product\/the-trudeau-record-promise-and-performance\/<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;An Accidental Canadianist: How my career in Canadian Studies all began.\u201d Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies 4 (August 2024): 139-144. \u00a0https:\/\/acnzsn.org\/journal\/jacanzs-volume-4-august-2024\/an-accidental-canadianist-how-my-career-in-canadian-studies-all-began\/<\/li>\n<li>Nimijean, Richard. 2022. &#8220;Spatial Dislocation and Canadian Studies, or Thinking About Canada 6000 Kilometres from Home.&#8221; In <i>The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad<\/i>, edited by Christopher Kirkey and Richard Nimijean, 167-204. Cham: Springer International Publishing.Kirkey, Christopher, and Richard Nimijean. 2022. &#8220;Spatial Dislocation, Canadian Expats, and National Identity.&#8221; In <i>The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad<\/i>, edited by Christopher Kirkey and Richard Nimijean, 3-22. Cham: Springer International Publishing.<\/li>\n<li>Carment, David, and Richard Nimijean. 2021. \u201cDivided in a Dangerous World.\u201d In <em>Political Turmoil in a Tumultuous World: Canada Among Nations 2020<\/em>, edited by David Carment and Richard Nimijean, 3-21. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.<\/li>\n<li>Marland, Alex, and Richard Nimijean. 2021. \u201cRebranding Brand Trudeau.\u201d In <em>Political Turmoil in a Tumultuous World: Canada Among Nations 2020<\/em>, edited by David Carment and Richard Nimijean, 55-76. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.<\/li>\n<li>Nimijean, Richard, David Carment, and Sydney Stewart. 2021. \u201cWill Canada Forge its Own Path in a Turbulent World?\u201d In <em>Political Turmoil in a Tumultuous World: Canada Among Nations 2020<\/em>, edited by David Carment and Richard Nimijean, 319-334. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.<\/li>\n<li>Carment, David, and Richard Nimijean. 2020. \u201cAssessing Canada\u2019s Liberal Internationalism: Where is Canada Headed on the Global Stage?\u201d In <em>Canadian Political, Social and Historical (Re)visions in 20th and 21st Centuries<\/em>, edited by Marcin Gabry\u015b, Magdalena Marczuk-Karbownik and Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek, 13-44. Berlin: Peter Lang.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhere is the Relationship Going? The View from Canada.\u201d In <em>Canada-US Relations: Sovereignty or Shared Institutions?<\/em>, edited by David Carment and Christopher Sands. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIntroduction: Is Canada Back? Brand Canada in a Turbulent World.\u201d <em>Canadian Foreign Policy Journal<\/em> 24:2 (2018):127-138.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMigrant Spirit Contested:\u00a0Competing Visions of Canada\u2019s National Identity in the 2015 Federal Election.\u201d\u00a0<em>TransCanadiana<\/em>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">9 (2017): 335-352<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u201cMarketing the Maple Leaf: The Curious Case of\u00a0<em>National Flag of Canada Day.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0In\u00a0<em>Celebrating Canada. Volume I: National Holidays and the Evolving Contours of Canadian Identity, eds.<\/em>\u00a0Matthew Hayday and Raymond Blake. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016 forthcoming (co-authored with L. Pauline Rankin).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA Passport to Identity: The Decline of Duality and the Symbolic Appropriation of Qu\u00e9bec.\u201d <u>Etudes canadiennes \/ Canadian Studies<\/u> , n\u00b0 78 (2015): 25-48. (Co-authored with Anne Tr\u00e9panier).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIntroduction,\u201d (with Anne Tr\u00e9panier), special issue of the <em>International Journal of Canadian Studies<\/em> vol. 50 (2014) on \u201cWhere is Qu\u00e9bec in Canadian Studies \/ La place du Qu\u00e9bec dans les \u00e9tudes canadiennes\u201d: 5-13.<\/li>\n<li>Domestic Brand Politics and the Modern Publicity State.\u201d In Publicity and the Canadian State, ed. Kirsten Kozolanka. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014, pp. 172-194.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHarper\u2019s Axe Hits Canadian Studies Abroad: The End of the Understanding Canada Program Reflects Changing Foreign Policy Priorities,\u201d Inroads 32 (Winter 2013): 14-18.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRebranding the Oil Sands,\u201d Inroads vol. 29 (Fall\/Winter 2011): 76-85.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Resurgence of Can-Am Liberalism: A Study in Ambiguity.\u201d CanadaWatch (Spring 2009).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCan Movements \u2018Move\u2019 Online? Online Activism, Canadian Women\u2019s Movements and the case of PAR-L.\u201d In Mobilizations and Engagements: Social Movements in Canada, eds. Marie Hammond Callaghan and Matthew Hayday. Black Point: Fernwood, 2008, pp. 62-80 (co-authored with L. Pauline Rankin).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCanadian Studies and the Harper Foreign Policy Agenda.\u201d Inroads vol. 22 (Winter\/Spring 2008): 23-27.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Ongoing Crisis of Canadian Studies.\u201d CanadaWatch (Fall 2007): 14-16.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBrand Canada: The Brand State and the Decline of the Liberal Party.\u201d Inroads vol. 19 (May 2006): 84-93.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Politics of Branding Canada: The International \u2013 Domestic Nexus and the Rethinking of Canada\u2019s Place in the World.\u201d Mexican Journal of Canadian Studies (vol. 11, 2006).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cArticulating the \u201cCanadian Way\u201d: Canada\u2122 and the Political Manipulation of the Canadian Identity.\u201d British Journal of Canadian Studies (vol. 18:1, 2005): 26-52.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Paradoxical Nature of the Canadian Identity.\u201d Teaching Canada, vol. 23 (February 2005): 25-31.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFrom Analysis to the Formulation of Policy Options: Lessons from Two Surveys of the Regional Innovation System of the Estrie Region of Quebec.\u201d In Innovation, Institutions and Territory: Regional Innovation Systems in Canada, eds. J. Adam Holbrook and David A. Wolfe. Kingston: Queen\u2019s University School of Policy Studies, 2000, pp. 127-138 (co-authored with R\u00e9jean Landry).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSaint John, New Brunswick as an Emerging Local System of Innovation.\u201d In Local and Regional Systems of Innovation, eds. John de la Mothe and Gilles Paquet. Boston: Kluwer, 1998, pp. 277-302.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u201cAnd What About Students? The Forgotten Role of Students in the Scholarly Communication Debate.\u201d Canadian Journal of Communications, Vol. 22, No. 3\/4 (Summer\/Autumn 1997): 179-196.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGlobal Economic Restructuring and the Evolution of Canadian Federalism and Constitutionalism.\u201d In New Trends in Canadian Federalism, eds. Miriam Smith and Fran\u00e7ois Rocher. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1995, pp. 211-233 (co-authored with Fran\u00e7ois Rocher).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><strong>Graduate Supervisions <\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarah Murphy (M.A. Research Essay). \u201cDrumming into the Heart of Nova Scotia: An Exploration of Peninsular Culture and Branding.\u201d Submitted April 2009. Co-supervised with Peter Hodgins.<\/li>\n<li>Robert Hilton (M.A. Thesis). Building Political Capital: The Politics of \u2018Need\u2019 in the Federal Government\u2019s Municipal Infrastructure Programs, 1993-2006. Defended April 17, 2007. Awarded distinction. Co-supervised with Christopher Stoney.<\/li>\n<li>Andrea Clark-Grignon (M.A. Research Essay). \u201cInternational Education and the Demand for Global Citizens: The Case of Carleton University.\u201d Submitted April 2007. Co-supervised with L. Pauline Rankin.<\/li>\n<li>Lindsay de Leeuw (M.A. Research Essay). \u201cFrom Mounties to Mukluks: Uncovering the Motives and Implications of Branding a Stereotypical Canada at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games.\u201d Submitted April 2007. Co-supervised with Peter Hodgins.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Wayne Saunders (M.A. Thesis). Recent State Promotion of the Canadian Aerospace Industry: A Case of Reactive or Anticipatory Public Policy? Defended April 17, 2003. Co-supervised with Fran\u00e7ois Rocher.<\/li>\n<li>Mary Pinkoski (M.A. Thesis). From Pots and Pans to Guns and Bombs: Women and Direct Action. Defended January 7, 2003. Co-supervised with L. Pauline Rankin.<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Mosher (M.A. Research Essay). \u201cThe Evolution of a Pro-Canada Nationalist Organization to a Transnational Social Movement Organization: The Case of the Council of Canadians.\u201d Successfully completed S 2002. Co-supervised with L. Pauline Rankin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><strong>Undergraduate Supervisions<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Madeleine Lawler (PAPM 4908). \u201cThe Under-representation of the Qu\u00e9bec English-speaking Community in the Quebec Provincial Civil Service.\u201d (F\/W 2019-20).<\/li>\n<li>Stephanie Ryan (PAPM 4908). \u201cWhy are Canadians Reluctant to Accept the Changing Face of the Canadian Military? A Critical Analysis of National Identity and Peacekeeping.\u201d (F\/W 2006-07).<\/li>\n<li>Nadine Wyatt (PAPM 4908). The Persistent Myths of Canadian Internationalism: An In-depth Examination into the Rhetoric-Reality Gap in Canadian Foreign Policy (F\/W 2004-05).<\/li>\n<li>Justin Henry (DIST 4908) Canada\u2019s Northern Foreign Policy (F\/W 2004-05).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[35],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Richard Nimijean - 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