{"id":4096,"date":"2021-01-13T13:14:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T18:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=4096"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:13:47","slug":"ryan-katz-rosene","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/people\/ryan-katz-rosene\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan-Katz-Rosene"},"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<h3 id=\"assistant-professorpolitical-studies-university-of-ottawa\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assistant Professor,<br>\nPolitical Studies, University of Ottawa<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnce you\u2019re a political economist, you\u2019re always a political economist,\u201d says Ryan Katz-Rosene jokingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katz-Rosene attended the Institute of Political Economy for both his master\u2019s degree and his collaborative PhD in Geography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He currently works as an assistant professor in political studies at the University of Ottawa and he says \u201ceverything has a political economy,\u201d whether it\u2019s the World Cup of soccer, natural resources, social justice, or the environment\u2014which is his area of expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he came to Carleton for his master\u2019s degree, Katz-Rosene thought he would focus on Latin American politics for his research, but after spending a year working in Alberta, he ultimately decided to pursue an area of interest closer to home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u201cIt was thanks to the theoretical openness and the interdisciplinary nature of the Institute of Political Economy that that transition was such an easy one and I\u2019ve been working in environmental political economy ever since,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katz-Rosene says he loves the work he does now because there is never a dull moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnyone who\u2019s looking at environmental politics or environmental political economy is aware of how dire things are or could be in the near future,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s not all doom and gloom. With that challenge comes a real sense of purpose; and it brings meaning to your work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Katz-Rosene, writing a master&#8217;s thesis at the Institute of Political Economy was a major step towards an academic career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTurning out primary research, interviewing people, turning it into a cohesive package and trying to get a final project out of it, there\u2019s no doubt that was a very formative experience. That was also the case for the collaborative PhD program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And he\u2019s not alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll the colleagues from my years at the Institute with whom I keep up with to this day I think would unanimously agree that their involvement in the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Institute helped shape their path,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His advice to students who are interested in the political economy MA or PhD programs is to keep an open mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy advice would be to keep theoretical and ideological and methodological doors and windows open as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4097,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Ryan","cu_people_last_name":"Katz-Rosene","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[89],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-4096","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Alumni","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","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\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/4096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/4096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}