Faculty Research Areas

Our teaching staff possess a number of research area strengths, including but not limited to the below major categories.

For more information on specific faculty members, click on the below faculty names, or view one of the following directory pages: Faculty Supervision Areas, Department Faculty, Adjunct Researchers, Emeritus Professors.

You can also peruse details about our faculty recipients of research grants and their impressive and important projects.

Subject Areas

Topic	Scope
Citizenship, Human Rights and Political Economy	Research in this area brings together faculty strengths around hierarchies of economic and political power, both between and within states. M. Adrian D. Buss J. Dickson S. Douglas M. Gaucher P. Kaisary V. Kazmierski D. Moore U. Ozsu G. Rigakos C. Wilke B. Wright
Crime, Governance and Security	This field addresses crime from local, national and international perspectives. Research in this area looks at crime as a social phenomena linked to questions of morality, identity, gender, political economy, history and culture. We take on the problem of security from the neighbourhood to the globe. R. Balasubramaniam D. Buss J. Dickson M. Gaucher W. Hébert U. Khan E. Maeder D. Moore G. Rigakos D. Spencer B. Wright
Gender, Sexuality and Identity	This field captures longstanding faculty expertise and research and incorporates social justices issues around race, disability, and sexual identity. M. Adrian D. Buss S. Douglas M. Gaucher S. Hamilton W. Hébert V. Kazmierski U. Khan E. Maeder D. Moore K. Polonskaya
Globalization, International Law and Transnational Justice	This field explores the limits and relevance of international law in the emerging networks of global interdependence of peoples and states. M. Adrian R. Balasubramaniam D. Buss S. Douglas B. Kuzmarov Z. Oklopcic U. Ozsu K. Polonskaya G. Rigakos C. Wilke
Law, History, Culture and Humanities	This interdisciplinary field interrogates the various ways in which law is mediated by culture, by history, by language, or by religion. At the same time, the ways in which law regulates social, cultural, religious, literary, or linguistic practices within society are also examined. M. Adrian J. Dickson S. Douglas S. Hamilton W. Hébert P. Kaisary U. Khan S. Malette D. Moore Z. Oklopcic U. Ozsu C. Wilke B. Wright