julian.hermida@algomau.ca
705-949-2301, ext. 4317
Office: NW 206B

Credentials: BA (University of Buenos Aires), LLM, DCL (McGill University), PhD (University of Córdoba)

Areas of Expertise: Criminal law and criminology, comparative law, international law.

trevor.tchir@algomau.ca
705-949-2301, ext. 4388
Office: SH 415

Educational Background:

• ‌PhD, University of Alberta
• MA, University of Ottawa
• BA, University of Ottawa

Areas of Expertise:

Classical and modern history of political thought, moral philosophy, Arendt’s theory of political action, Canadian political institutions.

Publications:

Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Political Action: Daimonic Disclosure of the ‘Who.’ Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Book Chapters:

“Daimon Appearances and the Heideggerian Influence in Arendt’s Account of Political Action,” in Action and Appearance: Explorations in Hannah Arendt, eds. Charles Barbour, Philip Hansen, Anna Yeatman, and Magdalena Zolkos (Continuum: New York, 2011).

“Arendtian Action: Performative Disclosure of the ‘Who’” in Declensions of the Self: A Bestiary of Modernity, eds. Jean-Jacques Defert, Trevor Tchir, and Dan Webb (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).

Edited Book:

Edited collection: Declensions of the Self: A Bestiary of Modernity, eds. Jean-Jacques Defert, Trevor Tchir, and Dan Webb (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).

Book Review:

“Review of Karen S. Feldman, Binding Words: Conscience and Rhetoric in Hobbes, Hegel, and Heidegger,” H-Ideas, H-Net Reviews, January, 2007.

Selected Conference Presentations:

• “Arendtian Resources for Truth and Reconciliation,” Prairie Political Science Association conference, Banff (2017).
• “Reconciliation and the Fusion of Horizons,” Canadian Political Science Association conference, Calgary (2016).
• “Rethinking Sovereignty in First Nations and Canadian Crown Relations,” Canadian Political Science Association conference, Ottawa (2015).
• “Religious Pluralism and the Canadian Secular State,” Canadian Political Science Association conference, Edmonton (2012).
• “Aristotelian Practical Reason in Amartya Sen’s Idea of Justice,” Western Political Science Association, San Antonio(2011).
• “Daimon Appearances in Arendt’s Account of Action,” Western Political Science Association, Vancouver; Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago; New York State Political Science Association, New York; Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa (2009).
• “Performative Self-Disclosure in Arendt’s Account of Action,” Canadian Political Science Association, Saskatoon (2007).
• “Aletheia and the Heideggerian Influence in Arendt,” Interdisciplinary Graduate Theory Colloquium, University of Alberta (2007).
• “Self-Disclosure and the State: Arendt’s Critique of Marx’s Socialized Humanity,” Rethinking Marxism, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2006).
• “Judging the Political Performance: Self-Disclosure and the Spectator in Hannah Arendt,” MLCS Declensions of the Self Conference, University of Alberta (2006).
• “Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment,” Talking Across Disciplines Colloquium, University of Alberta (2006).
• “Rationality and Language in Charles Taylor,” Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, University of Ottawa (2006).

kelly.deluca@algomau.ca

Office: CC 3031

Credentials: BA Hons, LL.B (University of Toronto), MA, M.Phil, PhD (Columbia University), of the Bar of Ontario

Areas of Expertise: Legal history, legal theory, constitutional law, international law

Email: monika.thakur@algomau.ca

Office: CC 3039

Website: https://m4monika.wordpress.com/

Education
PhD, International Relations (London School of Economics and Political Science/LSE)
MSc, International Relations (LSE)
BA Hons, Political Science (University of Toronto)

Areas of Expertise
International Relations, Comparative Politics, Critical Security Studies, decolonial approaches, Peace and Conflict Studies, the Global South, national security and intelligence

In-country Research and Work Experience:
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Nigeria, Jordan, Egypt, Myanmar, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Bangladesh, India, Nepal

Selected Publications

Book
Militias and the Challenges of Post-Conflict Peace: Silencing the Guns (co-authored with C. Alden, M. Arnold), (London: Zed Books/Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

Articles and Book Chapters
“Cruelty and Violence in the Global South,” Global Studies Quarterly, 2, 2, 2022.
“Navigating Multiple Identities: Decentering International Relations,” International Studies Review, 23, 2, 2021.
“Transitional Justice in Chad.”, in Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2021.
“Somalia-China Relations: China Claiming its Place as a Global Actor?,” in Emma Leonard and Gilbert Ramsay (eds.), Globalizing Somalia: Multilateral, International, and Transnational Repercussions of Conflict (New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014).
“Fragile States: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice,” Global Policy, 3, 3, September 2012.
“Building on Progress? Chinese Engagement in Ethiopia,” SAIIA Occasional Paper No. 38, July 2009.
“Demilitarizing Militias in the Kivus, eastern DR Congo,” African Security Review, 17, 1, 2008.

Selected Academic Conference Presentations
“Exclusion and Erasure of the Global South in Critical Security Studies” (to be presented, International Studies Association Annual Conference, March 2023, Montreal)
“Women and Violent Extremism in the Global South” (presented, International Studies Association Annual Conference, March 2022, online).
“Navigating Multiple Identities: The Self and Global IR” (International Studies Association Annual Conference, March 2020, Honolulu, USA). *Cancelled due to Covid-19*
“Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Paradigms: What IR Theory Can Learn from Area Studies” (International Studies Association Annual Conference, March 2019, Toronto, Canada).
“Women in Terrorist Organization: The Case of Boko Haram”; and “Rise of Violent Extremist in the Global South” (International Studies Association Annual Conference, April 2018, San Francisco, USA).
“Fragility and Resilience in the Global South” (International Studies Association Annual Conference, February 2017, Baltimore, USA).
“‘Post-Conflict’ Peacebuilding: Conceptual Discussion on Meaning and Practice” (International Studies Association Annual Conference, March 2016, Atlanta, USA).
“A Dialogue between African Area Studies and International Relations Theory” (International Studies Association Annual Conference, February 2015, New Orleans, USA).