{"id":16696,"date":"2015-08-27T13:57:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T17:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=16696"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:26","slug":"williamson-ross","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/williamson-ross\/","title":{"rendered":"Williamson, Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Theoretical and historical approaches to international law, particularly international humanitarian law and its predecessors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>State violence, law and war.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identity and performativity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Socio-legal theory and popular culture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Ross joined the legal studies PhD program in the fall of 2013 after completing his BA and MA in that same department at Carleton University.&nbsp; Despite his long presence in legal studies programs, he pursues interdisciplinary research.&nbsp; His MA thesis combined performativity, constructivist international relations theory, postcolonial insights and international law history.&nbsp; His current research centres on the different ways that people understand violence and their relation to violence, specifically through the distinction in international law between war and peace.&nbsp; What stories do these categories allow us to tell, and what stories do they foreclose or conceal?&nbsp; How do they affect the ongoing work of legal actors to construct various, often conflicting identities?&nbsp; On what assumptions do these categories rely, and how do actors contest those assumptions?&nbsp; At present, he is developing a thesis proposal that will allow him to engage with these questions as well as their relationship with imperialism through a number of case studies.&nbsp; While these are changing, they currently centre on 19th and early 20th century British imperialism, particularly in Latin America.&nbsp; However, he is also intermittently working on article projects involving ontopower and drone strikes, as well as historical and present-day piracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"supervisor\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Supervisor:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/wilke-christiane\/\">Christiane Wilke<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"committee-current\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Committee (current):<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/appel-kuzmarov-betina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Betina Appel Kuzmarov<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/andrew-m-johnston\/\">Andrew Johnston<\/a> (history department)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30163,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Ross","cu_people_last_name":"Williamson","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[16],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-16696","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-phd-student"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"PhD Candidate (Legal Studies)","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"ross.williamson@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/16696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/16696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30677,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/16696\/revisions\/30677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=16696"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=16696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}