Faculty and Staff
Full-Time Faculty
Lyubov Zhyznomirska
Associate Professor, Department Chair
Comparative Politics, European Union and its external relations, Migration and Citizenship, Eastern Europe, Russia
( View Bio)
902-420-5839
Lyubov.Zhyznomirska@smu.ca
Office hours:
By appointment
Alexandra Dobrowolsky
Professor
Canadian and Comparative - Politics, Public Policy, Women, Gender & Politics ( View Bio )
902-420-5895
adobrowolsky@smu.ca
Office hours:
Tuesday & Thursday 11:30am – 12:30 pm (MN 405)
Virtual office hours:
Wednesday 11:30am – 3:30pm via Zoom
Marc Doucet
Professor
International Relations ( View Bio )
902-491-8604
marc.doucet@smu.ca
Office hours:
Wednesday 2:30pm - 4:30pm (MN 518)
Virtual office hours:
By email appointment
Kate Ervine
Associate Professor
Political economy, political ecology, global environmental governance, the politics of climate change mitigation, climate finance (View Bio)
902-491-6224
kate.ervine@smu.ca
Office hours:
By appointment
Gavin Fridell
Professor and University Research Professor
Fair trade and free trade, international trade agreements, global political economy, critical development studies, psychoanalytic theory (View Bio)
902-420-5767
gavin.fridell@smu.ca
Office hours:
By appointment
Stella Gaon
Professor
Political Thought ( View Bio )
902-420-5843
stella.gaon@smu.ca
Office hours:
Monday & Tuesday 2:00pm-3:30 pm (MN 402)
Virtual office hours:
By appointment
Karen McAllister
Assistant Professor
Anthropology of Development, Environmental Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Southeast Asia, ethnic minorities, land and resource rights, agriculture, environmental conservation, resistance
902-491-6383
karen.mcallister@smu.ca
Office hours:
By appointment
Donald Naulls
Associate Professor
Canadian, Public Policy, Public Administration ( View Bio )
don.naulls@smu.ca
Office hours:
Monday to Thursday 1:00pm – 2:30pm (MN 408)
Paulo Ravecca
Assistant Professor
Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory, Research Methods ( View Bio )
902-491-3349
Paulo.Ravecca@smu.ca
Office hours:
Monday, 11:30am – 12:30pm
Wednesday, 11:30am – 1:00pm
Thursday, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Leigh Spanner
Assistant Professor
Gender and Politics, International Relations, Canadian Politics (View Bio)
902-420-5268
Leigh.Spanner@smu.ca
Office hours:
Monday & Wednesday 1-2pm
Tuesday 11am-1pm
Evangelia (Evie) Tastsoglou
Professor
Feminist and intersectional perspectives on women, gender and various aspects of international migration; Canadian immigration and integration; violence and migration; citizenship and belonging; transnationalism and diasporas; migration and development
902-420-5884
evie.tastsoglou@smu.ca
Office hours:
By appointment
Adjunct Faculty
Catherine Baillie Adibi
Educational Studies
David Black
Canadian foreign policy; comparative politics of development Africa
John Kirk
Global health; Cuban development model; Cuban medical system (at home and abroad); Latin American development issues
Alex Marland
Professor (Acadia University)
Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership
Canadian Politics, Canadian Legislatures, Canadian Political Parties, Political Marketing (View Bio)
902-585-1506
Alex.Marland@acadiau.ca
Ronaldo Munk
Development studies, Latin American studies, labour studies
Shiva Nourpanah
Social Anthropology
Mehmet Nuri Gütekin
Social change; refugees and migration in the MENA region; social transformation in the rural Turkey; sociology of literature
Anupam Pandey
Gender and development; method and theory in research; South Asia
Sandy Petrinioti
Migration and displacement, European Union migration and asylum policies, gender, migration and development
Cecil Ryan
Community human resource development; natural resource management; community economic development; educational planning
Darcy Tetreault
Social environmental conflicts, mining, water, extractivism and agrarian transformation
Edgar Zayago Lau
Technology and development; nanotechnology and national development policy
Part-Time and Limited Term Faculty
Saja Al Zoubi
Bridget Brownlow
Peace and Conflict Studies
902-420-5113
Bridget.Brownlow@smu.ca
(AT 211)
Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete
Natalie Ghosn
International Law, Canadian Law, Gender and Politics
Natalie.Ghosn@smu.ca
Office hours:
By appointment
Madhuparna Gupta
International Relations Theory; Foreign Policy and Strategic Studies; Human Rights and International Law; Gender, Ethnicity and Development; Politics of South Asia; Central and West Asian Politics, Colonial History of Canada and India
Alfred G. Nhema
Governance and Development, Development Administration, Public Management, Peace and Conflict
Carlos Pessoa
Political Theory, Comparative Politics (Developing Countries), International Relations
Carlos.Pessoa@smu.ca
Office hours:
Monday & Wednesday 3:00pm - 4:00pm (MN 520)
Hendricus Van Wilgenburg
Critical Thinking, Contemporary Political Philosophy
Hendricus.Van_Wilgenburg@smu.ca
Office hours:
By appointment
Staff
Laura Becerril
Administrative Assistant
MN 414
902-420-5836
politics@smu.ca