Marshall Beier
Marshall Beier’s background is in Security Studies and International Relations theory, with an emphasis on Post Colonialism, Post Structuralism, and Feminist approaches. Drawing on these complementary theoretical currents, his active research agenda includes work on Indigeneity and International Relations, the Militarization of Childhood, and the limiting effects of disciplinarily on the study of security.
Peter Nyers
PhD Political Science, York University, 2002
Graduate Chair Department of Political Science | Professor
Peter Nyers
Peter Nyers has expertise in critical approaches to security as well as theoretical debates about citizenship, sovereignty, globalization, political space-time, and borders. His research on refugees and undocumented migration contributes to contemporary debates about citizenship, mobility, and security.
Robert O’Brien
Robert O’Brien’s work has focused on the Role of Global Civil Society and Labour in the Creation and Maintenance of a System of Global Governance.
Tony Porter
Tony Porter is interested in the role of knowledge, private authority, temporality, numbers, and technical artifacts in global governance and in the relevance of actornetwork theory and other critical social theories for understanding international relations.
Alina Sajed
Alina Sajed specializes in postcolonial and decolonial approaches to International Relations Theory. She is interested in the politics of the Global South, colonial violence and colonial modernity, Islamic social movements, and the politics of feminisms. Her current project examines the emergence of Islamic responses to colonial modernity in Southeast Asia (Dutch Indies and British Malaya).
Lana Wylie
Dr. Wylie’s research focuses on Canadian and American foreign policy, Latin American and Caribbean politics with an emphasis on Cuba, international relations theory, and diplomacy and tourism.