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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.

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Personal Site: https://trevortchirmusic.com/academics

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.

Personal Site: https://trevortchirmusic.com/academics

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).

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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: [email protected]

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 and feminist approaches, Peace and Conflict Studies, the Global South, national security and intelligence

In-country Research and Work Experience
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Myanmar, Nigeria, 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
“Decolonial Approaches to Canadian Foreign Policy: Rethinking Canada’s International Assistance to the Global South,” in Palgrave Macmillan Handbook on Critical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Policy, Editors: David Black, Heather Smith, David Hornsby, Liam Midzain-Gobin (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2026).

“Reimagining Gender and National Security: Views from Decolonial Feminist Approaches and the Global South,” in Rethinking National Security: Gender, Theory and Practice, Editors: Sandra Biskupski-Mujanovic, Veronica Kitchen and Tanya Harozhna (Routledge, forthcoming 2027). 

“Violence, Inequality and Resistance in South Asia,” as Editor of Special Issue, Women’s Studies International Forum (2026), includes 11 articles. 

“Lived Experiences of Syrian Refugees and Ukrainian Temporary Residents in Northern Ontario,” Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 41,1, 2026. 

“War, Women and Forced Displacement,” Women’s Studies International Forum, 93, 2023. 

“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, Editors: Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Recent Academic Conference Presentations
“The Global South and (Re)imagining Critical Security Studies”; and “Precarity, Violence and Resistance in the Global South” (presented, Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) Annual Conference, University of Ottawa, June 2026).

“Gender and the Politics of Violence/Gender and the Violent Political”, roundtable; and “Seeing the World from Home: Understanding ‘Home’ in IR”, roundtable and research workshop (presented, International Studies Association Annual Conference, Chicago, USA, March 2025). 

“Exclusion and Erasure of the Global South in International Security Studies” (presented, Centre for Conflict Studies, University of Marburg, Germany, June 2024). 

“Decolonising Canadian Foreign Policy”; and “Refugee Narratives in the Global South” (presented, International Studies Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, USA, April 2024).

“Lived Experiences of Syrian Refugees and Ukrainian Temporary Residents in Northern Ontario” (presented TransAtlantic Policy Lab Conference, Glendon College, York University, April 2023).

“Exclusion and Erasure of the Global South in Critical Security Studies” (presented, International Studies Association Annual Conference, Montreal, March 2023).

“Women and Violent Extremism in the Global South” (presented, International Studies Association Annual Conference, online, March 2022).