Faculty and Staff

Migration and Diaspora Studies faculty associates are drawn from 25 different academic units in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Public Affairs, and the Sprott School of Business.

The Migration and Diaspora Studies administration provides administrative support for the MDS program. Academic programs in Migration and Diaspora Studies are based in Kroeger College in the Faculty of Public Affairs. Migration and Diaspora Studies is managed by a Steering Committee drawn from the colleagues from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Public Affairs.

Faculty Associates

Melanie Adrian

Law and Legal Studies -- Intersections of multiculturalism, nationalism, religion and the law

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Betina Appel Kuzmarov

Law and Legal Studies -- Interdisciplinary approaches to cultural property law; transnational aspects of cultural property law; interdisciplinary approaches to public international law; international law theory

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Alexandra Arraiz Matute

The Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies -- Racialized immigrant families in Canada and its intersections with education, identity, and transnationalism

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Nimo Bokore

School of Social Work -- Poverty and social policy; resettlement and integration; forced migration and refugee studies

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Deidre Butler

Religion -- Modern Judaism; contemporary Jewish women; gender and the Holocaust

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David Carment

The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs -- Canadian foreign policy; mediation and negotiation; fragile states and diaspora politics

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James Casteel

European, Russian and Eurasian Studies/Global and International Studies -- European history; transnational and global history; migration, diaspora, and memory

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Sarah Casteel

English/Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture -- Postcolonial literature; Caribbean literature; Black-Jewish literary relations; Black Holocaust fiction

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Xiaobei Chen

Sociology and Anthropology -- Theorizing of citizenship, governance, identity, and cultural politics in Canadian and Chinese national and transnational contexts; the child and the construction of modernity; diaspora studies

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Cati Coe

Political Science -- Transnational migration; Care; Aging; Social Protection Policy; West Africa

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Louise de la Gorgendiere

Sociology and Anthropology -- Diaspora; transnationalism; development and underdevelopment; Sub-Saharan Africa

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Audra A. Diptee

Department of History -- Trans-Atlantic history of slavery and abolitionism; Caribbean and African Diaspora history

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Christine Duff

Department of French -- Caribbean literature in French; African literature in French; Postcolonial literary theory

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Bruce S. Elliott

Department of History -- 18th and 19th century social and immigration history; history of eastern Ontario and western Quebec

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Sandra Fahy

Bachelor of Global and International Studies -- East Asia; migration; oral history

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Ilyan Ferrer

School of Social Work -- Aging among racialized immigrants in Canada; Digital storytelling as methodology; Transformative and community education

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Christina Gabriel

Political Science -- Politics of international labor migration; citizenship and migration; gender and politics; multiculturalism

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Megan Gaucher

Law and Legal Studies -- Canadian immigration and refugee law; citizenship, family law and politics

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Martin Geiger

Political Science/European, Russian and Eurasian Studies -- Politics of borders and international migration management; international organizations and migration; global competition for STEM labor; European Union and migration

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Randall Gess

School of Linguistics and Language Studies -- Phonological theory; historical phonology; second language phonology

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Malini Guha

Film Studies -- women cinema; migration and spatiality in cinema; postcolonial and post-imperial modes of mobility, migration, displacement, and settlement in cinema

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Amrita Hari

Women’s and Gender Studies -- Global migrations; transnationalisms diasporic formations and citizenship; gendered division of labor and Indian hi-tech migration

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Shireen Hassim

Institute of African Studies -- Gender and African Politics

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Birgit Hopfener

Art History/Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture -- Contemporary Chinese art; global art history; transcultural historiography

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Beatriz Juárez Rodríguez

Anthropology -- Political anthropology; race and racialization; ethno-racial social movements and the state in Latin America; African diaspora studies

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Philip Kaisary

Law and Legal Studies -- Legal, filmic, and literary texts of the Black diaspora; diaspora and critical social theory, esp. marxism and the Frankfurt School; materialism, marxism, and postcolonial studies; diaspora and the capitalocene / anthropocene

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Karim H. Karim

Journalism & Communication -- Cultural Studies; political communication; postcolonial theory and diaspora, race, religion and media

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Catherine Khordoc

Department of French -- Contemporary Québécois literature treating issues of personal and collective identity in relation to immigration; multiculturalism (or interculturalism); exile and integration

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Gülay Kilicaslan

Law and Legal Studies -- Forced migration and displacement in the Middle East; refugee law and politics of citizenship and resettlement; state and border violence; resistance and social movements; diaspora mobilizations

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Matthew Kurtz

Geography and Environmental Studies -- Economic geography; historical geography; research methodology

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Jean-Michel Landry

Sociology and Anthropology -- Political Anthropology; critical theory; postcolonial studies; Religion; migration; the Middle East

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Laura Macdonald

Political Science -- Latin American politics; Mexican politics; North American politics; Canadian foreign policy; democracy and civil society

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Laura Madokoro

Department of History -- History of migration, refugees and humanitarianism; settler colonialism; 19th and 20th century; Pacific World

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Dominique Marshall

Department of History -- Social policy, welfare, and the history of families; children’s rights and humanitarian aid in transnational perspectives perspective; 19th-20th c. Quebec

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Azar Masoumi

Sociology -- State-controlled refugee protection; gender, sexuality and migration; sexual orientation and gender identity and expression refugees; Diaspora studies

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James Milner

Political Science -- Global refugee regimes; global refugee policy; politics of asylum in the global south

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Lama Mourad

The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs -- Politics of the Middle East; migration and borders; local governance

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Luciara Nardon

Business -- International business; multiculturalism and the role of culture in management cross-cultural communication

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Franny Nudelman

English Language and Literature -- United States culture, 19th and 20th century; War and Peace Studies; Documentary Studies; African American culture

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Nduka Otiono

Institute of African Studies

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Umut Özsu

Law and Legal Studies -- International law and population transfers; international refugee law and human rights law; international law of decolonization

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Carolyn Ramzy

Music -- Music and religion, globalization, and conflict; Egyptian Christian popular music in Egypt and Diaspora

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Cristina Rojas

Political Science -- Citizenship studies; comparative politics Latin America; development

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Dane Rowlands

The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs -- International finance and conflict economics; multilateral financial institutions; migration and remittances;

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Blair Rutherford

Sociology and Anthropology -- Politics and possibilities of international development, civil society in sub-Saharan Africa; anthropology of citizenship, gender, state and globalization; colonialism and post-colonialism; migration

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Jeff Sahadeo

European, Russian and Eurasian Studies/Political Science -- History of Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus; history of migration from Central Asia to the Soviet Union; politics of race in the Soviet Union; post-Soviet diasporas

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Stephen Saideman

The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs -- Civil-military relations; NATO; ethnic conflict, and foreign policy analysis

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Aboubakar Sanogo

Film Studies -- African and Afro-diasporic cinemas; documentary film theory; transnational and world cinemas; colonial cinema

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Jaffer Sheyholislami

School of Linguistics and Language Studies -- Language in diaspora; language policy and planning; critical discourse studies; Kurdish linguistics

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Candace Clare Sobers

Department of History -- History of international relations; empire and decolonization; transnational networks; American and African political cultures

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Vivian Solana

Sociology and Anthropology -- Political anthropology; feminist anthropology; transnational activism; postcolonial theory; Western Sahara; Spain

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Daiva Stasiulis

Sociology and Anthropology -- Sociology of international migration; issues of citizenship, race and gender; migrant women and domestic work; lived citizenship among the Lebanese diaspora

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Mira Sucharov

Department of Political Science -- Israeli-Palestinian relations; Jewish politics; emotions & international relations; pedagogy; narrative writing; op-ed writing and social media engagement

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Carieta Thomas

Sociology and Anthropology -- Care work; immigrant surveillance; Black immigrants; socio-legal studies

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Ming Tiampo

Art History/Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture -- Transnational and global art history; transnational modernism in postwar Japan; art and decolonization in France; curatorial studies

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Anne Trépanier

School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies -- Canadian identity politics and narratives; strategies for intercultural mediation; French language, culture, and identity in North America

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William Walters

Political Science -- Political sociology of migration, border studies, and citizenship

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Stephen White

Political Science -- Canadian public opinion and elections; political participation; immigrant political attitudes and behaviour

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Stanley L. Winer

Public Policy and Administration -- Fiscal systems in Canada and in the world; political institutions and policy processes; interregional and international migration and Canadian public policy

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Michael J. A. Wohl

Psychology -- Conflict resolution; disordered gambling

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Christopher Worswick

Economics -- Economics of immigration; economics of education; development economics; labour economics

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