Members' Directory
Scholars
Dr. Tatiana Sanchez Parra
Assistant Professor, Instituto de Estudios Sociales y Culturales Pensar, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Email: tatiana.sanchez [at] javeriana.edu.co
Areas of interest: Working at the intersection of feminist socio-legal studies and anthropology of violence, her research explores experiences of reproductive violence and reproductive justice in contexts of war and political transition.
Dr. Julia Zulver
Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Research Fellow, University of Oxford and Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico
Email: julia.zulver [at] area.ox.ac.uk
Areas of interest: I study women's high-risk collective action, women's high-risk leadership, and gender at the nexus of conflict and migration. I focus my research in Latin America. I also engage in feminist advocacy as a Senior Researcher for Ladysmith.听
Dr. Bessma Momani
Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo
Email: bmomani [at] uwaterloo.ca
Areas of interest: My research explores topics such as the geopolitical implications on defence and security concerns to Canada; international relations; and, gender dimensions within the defence and security field. I also collaborate with University of Waterloo researchers in order to bridge the gap between policy and technical aspects of defence studies, exploring topics like cybersecurity attacks on critical infrastructure and use of disinformation in Canada. I am the Director of the Defence and Security Foresight Group (DSFG), a network of academics from across Canada who provide forecasting on pivotal security and defence flashpoints. The DSFG is funded by a Department of National Defence Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) Collaborative Network Grant.
Dr. Megan Bradley
Associate Professor, Political Science and International Development Studies, 平特五不中
Email: megan.bradley [at] mcgill.ca
Areas of interest: My research and teaching focus on refugees and forced migration, humanitarianism, disasters, human rights and transitional justice, including in relation to gender. Alongside my academic work, I served as a Fellow with the Brookings Institution Project on Internal Displacement, and as a Cadieux-L茅ger Fellow at Global Affairs Canada.
Dr. Caitlin Ryan
University of Groningen (Netherlands)
Email: c.m.ryan [at] rug.nl
Areas of interest: I draw theoretical insights from postcolonial and feminist approaches to security and economic development. I use methodology from anthropology to apply these theoretical debates to empirical questions. Broadly, these questions focus on political and economic dynamics in postwar contexts. My current research considers the gendered political and economic processes of postwar reform in West Africa.
Dr. Marie-Eve Desrosiers
Dr. Siobhan Byrne
Dr. Laura J. Shepherd
Email: laura.shepherd [at] sydney.edu.au
Areas of interest: My primary research focuses on the Women, Peace and Security agenda because I am interested in feminist theory and activism, multi-level complex governance systems, and the development and implementation of peace and security policy instruments.
Dr. Laura Eramian
Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University
Email: leramian [at] dal.ca
Areas of interest: As a social anthropologist, I have been conducting ethnographic fieldwork in post-genocide Rwanda since 2004. My research has focused on personhood and self-making, ethnic difference, and everyday practices of post-conflict peace-building organizations in Rwanda.
Dr. Carla Suarez
Banting Fellow with the Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies
Email: carla.suarez [at] graduateinstitute.ch
Areas of interest: My research interests include peace and conflict studies, the politics of non-state armed groups, gender dynamics during and after war, and the ethics of field research in conflict-affected settings.
Dr. Sarah-Myriam Martin-Br没l茅
Dr. Maya Eichler
Mount Saint Vincent University
Email: maya.eichler [at] msvu.ca
Areas of interest: I am interested in the intersections of the Women, Peace and Security agenda with a variety of defence-related issues, including military gender integration, military sexual violence, military-to-civilian transitions, and the privatization of security.
Dr. Marion Laurence
Dallaire Centre of Excellence for Peace and Security, Canadian Defence Academy
Email: marion.laurence [at] cfc.dnd.ca
Areas of interest: Peacekeeping and peacebuilding; children and armed conflict; protection of civilians; global security governance; political sociology of international organizations.
Dr. Nad猫ge Compaor茅
Dr. Annie Bunting
Professor of Law & Society, York University
Email: abunting [at] yorku.ca
Areas of interest: My research expertise includes socio-legal studies of marriage and childhoods; feminist international law; and culture, religion and law. I currently direct an international research collaboration on conjugal slavery in conflict situations with historians of slavery and women鈥檚 human rights activist and scholars.
Dr. Deborah Stienstra
Dr. David Black
Email: blackd [at] dal.ca
Areas of interest: Canada-Africa relationships, development cooperation and "partnerships", human security, disability and development, Canada and peace operations/peacebuilding, South African foreign policy, sport in international relations and development.
Dr. Myriam Denov
Dr. Alan Okros
Dr. Kirsten J. Fisher
Assistant Professor in Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan
Email: kirsten.fisher [at] usask.ca
Areas of interest: Global governance and human rights, international criminal law, politics and the International Criminal Court (ICC), justice after atrocity, and post-conflict social reconstruction, particularly in Africa.
Dr. Eliseo F. Huesca Jr.
Davao del Norte State College, Philippines
Email: eliseo.huesca [at] dnsc.edu.ph
Areas of interest: My research interests broadly sit on the intersectionality of gender, global governance, and development. I am currently working on integration of UNSCRs 1325 and 2250 in DDR mechanisms in Mindanao, Philippines. I am also leading a project on global gender norm translations in state security forces (army, police, navy, etc.) in the Philippines.
Dr. Johanna Masse
Dr. Tanni Mukhopadhyay
Adjunct Professor, Ryerson University
Email: t.mukhopadhyay.92 [at] cantab.net
Areas of interest: I am broadly interested in all-things related to peace processes and conflict-resolution. I am particularly interested in two aspects of the WPS agenda in relation to my broader research interests: the inclusion of women in peace processes and in the civilian and military components of UN missions.
Dr. Marie-Jo毛lle Zahar
Email: marie-joelle.zahar [at] umontreal.ca
Areas of interest: I work on issues of human security, gender, peace and development, social protection, women's political participation, women's economic empowerment and unpaid care work. I examine the Human Development approach regarding these emerging challenges within the backdrop of the unfolding climate crises.
Dr. Miriam Anderson
Toronto Metropolitan University
Email: miriam.anderson [at] torontomu.ca
Areas of interest: I focus on non-state actors in international security, specializing on women鈥檚 participation in peace processes and in post-conflict politics. I examine women鈥檚 inclusion at peace negotiations, their involvement in post-accord formal politics, and women鈥檚 peace activism in general.
Dr. Elizabeth Corredor
Dr. Nafisa A. Abdulhamid
Dr. Nancy Taber
Professor, Brock University, Department of Educational Studies
Email: ntaber [at] brocku.ca
Areas of interest: Dr. Nancy Taber is a professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Brock University. Her research explores the ways in which learning, gender, and militarism intersect in daily life, popular culture, museums, militaries, and educational institutions. She has a particular focus on women鈥檚 experiences in the Canadian Armed Forces as relates to organizational culture, official polices, and informal everyday practices, with respect to gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. She is a retired military officer who served as a Sea King helicopter air navigator. Dr. Taber is a former President of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education and the former Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education. She is currently using the genre of fiction to explore the complexities of women鈥檚 lives as relates to war and militarism.
Dr. Katharina Coleman
Dr. Whitney Grespin
Dr. Gina Mara帽a Oropesa
Dr. Tatjana Tak拧eva
Full Professor, Saint Mary's University
Email: tatjana.takseva [at] smu.ca
Dr. Tatjana Tak拧eva is Full Professor in the graduate Program in Women and Gender Studies and Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary's University, K鈥檍ipuktuk (Halifax), Mi鈥檏maq Territory. Her research and teaching have been interdisciplinary for over twenty years, directly engaging multiple intersections between the humanities and the social sciences. She is the author of numerous studies on gender and violence, feminist and trauma theory, motherhood studies and nationalism. She is the editor, with Arlene Sgoutas (MSU Denver), of Mothers Under Fire: Mothering in Conflict Zones (Demeter Press, 2015), a volume featuring the work of international scholars, practitioners, and activists in the field of gender and conflict, highlighting the impact of conflict on mothers but also their agency in post/conflict resolutions. Tatjana is the SMU Research Lead on interuniversity provincially funded project Culture, and Perspectives on Sexual Assault Policies (CAPSAP) in university settings, working on developing culturally sensitive, survivor-centric, and trauma-informed approaches in such policies. Her work has received the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, the Social Equity Working Group with Universities and Colleges Division of Nova Scotia Department of Labour and Advanced Education, and the Bibliographical Society of America, among others. Tatjana is currently working on a monograph, Agency, Remembrance, Recovery: Voices from Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina (forthcoming Routledge 2023), a study based on her conversations with survivors of sexual violence during the recent war in the Balkans, and the children born of such violence.
Dr. St茅phanie Martel
Email: stephanie.martel [at] queensu.ca
Areas of interest: Multilateral diplomacy, global governance, international/regional organizations, women, peace and security, International Relations of Southeast Asia and the Asia/Indo-Pacific, the role of narratives in world politics, practice theory, norm localization and contestation.听
Civil Society and Government
Beth Woroniuk
Women, Peace and Security Network - Canada
Email: coordinator [at] wpsn-canada.org
Areas of interest: Promoting and monitoring the efforts of the Government of Canada to implement and support the United Nation Security Council Resolutions on women, peace and security; and, providing a forum for exchange and action by Canadian civil society on issues related to women, peace and security.
Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security
Email: wcaps [at] wcaps.org
Areas of interest: To advance the leadership and professional development of women of color in the fields of international peace, security, and conflict transformation.
Priscyll Anctil
Resty Kyomukama
Josephine Roele
Freelance Consultant, Current United Nations Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund 鈥� WPHF
Email: joroele [at] gmail.com
Areas of interest: Resourcing women's rights organizations/feminist movements; NAP development, including civil society engagement and consultations for NAP development/1325 implementation; climate justice and WPS; disarmament; women's participation in peace processes and peace agreement implementation (all Tracks).
Princessa Calixte
Anne Rose Osamba
Melanie Slimming
Munini Mutuku
Akanksha Khullar
Kimberly Gra
Viyanga Nirmanie Gunasekera
Hannen Nanaa
Toronto Metropolitan University
Email: hanen.nanaa [at] torontomu.ca
Areas of interest: Civic and political participation of diverse women and youth, Elections, democratic processes, freedom of expression, and global governance, Access to decision-making for equity-deserving women, Child and Early Forced Married, Internally Displaced People, The inclusion of refugees and diverse women in the National Defense Force, The involvement of refugee women and youth in entrepreneurship.
Students
Katrina Leclerc
PhD Student, Saint-Paul University
Email: leclerckatrina [at] gmail.com
Areas of interest: Research and policy areas include WPS-Youth, Peace and Security synergies; local peacebuilding; structural violence; meaningful participation of young people in decision-making and civic engagement; young women in conflict and post-conflict recovery (particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and South Sudan).
Julie Guernier
Kim Beaulieu
Email: kim.beaulieu.2 [at] umontreal.ca
Areas of interest: My research focuses on the strategic and political dimensions in the adoption of a feminist foreign policy. I study the impact of a feminist branding in foreign policy, particularly in regards to identity and soft power.
Muzna Dureid
Florence Waller-Carr
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Gender Studies
Email: f.s.waller-carr [at] lse.ac.uk
Areas of interest: Critical and Feminist Security Studies; Civil society's role in shaping and implementing WPS; Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights; Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression; Climate Crisis; Post- and De-Colonial Theory; Feminist Methodologies and Epistemology.
Maryruth Belsey-Priebe
Merve Erdilmen
Nicole Johnston
Graduate Student, Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia
Email: njohnnj [at] student.ubc.ca
Areas of interest: I am interested in the intersections between gender justice, peace-building, and post conflict development, and the role of public policy in designing gender transformative peace processes. Specifically, I am interested in the important role of women鈥檚 organizations and movements in peace-building.
Ana茂s F. El-Amraoui
PhD Student, Queen's University
Email: a.elamraoui [at] queensu.ca
Areas of interest: I conduct research on the implementation of the Women, Peace, and Security agenda through a focus on communities of practice. My areas of interest include : Civil society's role in WPS; Power dynamics within international security; Production of knowledge; Decolonial Feminist Methodologies; Feminist IR
Bibi Imre-Millei
Samantha El-Ghazal
University of British Columbia (Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs)
Email: selghaz [at] student.ubc.ca
Areas of interest: Samantha's interests lie at the intersection between international development and human security issues, particularly when it comes to conflict-affected regions. She believes it is important to safeguard existing development progress by establishing emergency management policies to avoid any backsliding that would ultimately impact human security.
Genevieve Varelas
Panthea Pourmalek
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia
Email: p.pourmalek [at] alumni.ubc.ca
Areas of interest: Localization of WPS Agenda, access of women and young women peacebuilders to decision-making spaces, applications of emerging and decentralized trust technologies in conflict contexts and peace processes, rebel governance, transitional governance processes.
Alice Craft
Political Science MA Student at Dalhousie University
Email: alicecraft [at] live.co.uk
Areas of interest: The modern conception of the 'refugee crisis' is central to my research. I want to challenge the notion that refugee crises are modern phenomena and analyse the impacts of the securitization of border policies on the lived experience of the global refugee population.
Nellie Kamau
Public Policy and Global Affairs at University of British Columbia
Email: nellie.kamau [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Areas of interest: I am interested in policy and research in social protection for Forcibly Displaced Persons, Financial Inclusion for the vulnerable, and the role of technology in creating an enabling environment for post-war recovery especially for women.
Rudolph Damas
University of British Columbia
Email: rudolphdamas [at] gmail.com
Areas of interest: My areas of interest include food security, sustainable agriculture, climate change as a threat to security, as well as strategies to taking more of a feminist approach to the empowerment of farmers in emerging economies. More specifically I'm hoping to focus my work on addressing social determinants of health as a strategy to eliminating insecurity in Ha茂ti and the greater LAC (Latin America/Caribbean) region.
Karine Kfoury
University of British Columbia
Email: kfourykarine [at] gmail.com
Areas of interest: I am interested in sustainability, climate change, and resource allocation. Looking into the overlap between gender and environmental issues is a topic that I am interested in. Additionally, as a woman that comes from a country prone to conflict, I am curious of the economic and social impact of conflict on women in the Middle East specifically.
Benedicte Santoire
PhD in Political Science, University of Ottawa
Email: benedicte.santoire [at] uottawa.ca
Areas of interest: Her doctoral thesis focuses on the implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) in the post-Soviet space, more specifically in Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and Armenia. She is interested in the ways that the WPS agenda (as an international norm) is perceived, understood, contested, and translated at the local level in militarized contexts. More generally, B茅n茅dicte examines the WPS agenda not only as a vast normative policy framework with changing contours but also as a research object on its own; a place of unequal knowledge production and (re)production of global hierarchical relations. Her research is financed by the Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec 鈥� Soci茅t茅 et culture (FRQSC) and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS). In addition to her doctoral studies, B茅n茅dicte is involved in multiple advocacy activities and Canadian NGOs promoting feminist peace and disarmament.
Alexa Hassall Shipman
Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University
Email: alexahassallshipman [at] cmail.carleton.ca
Areas of interest: My research interests are in the study of countering violent extremism. The two areas of interest for me are: 1) the use of the internet (and other modern technologies) for the recruitment of violent extremists, particularly 鈥渋ncels鈥� and white nationalist groups, and 2) the study of women who become violent extremists.
Phyu Phyu Oo
Junru Bian
Ph.D. Student, University of Ottawa
Email: junru.bian [at] uottawa.ca
Areas of interest: I study how aid workers interpret, shape and re-produce humanitarian values in conflict environments through everyday practices. My areas of interest include: gender and peacekeeping-intelligence, gender-based analysis in aid operational planning, as well as space and liminality in conflict contexts.
Claire Okatch
The University of British Columbia
Email: cokatch [at] student.ubc.ca
Areas of interest: Incorporating a gender + analysis within bias mitigation interventions in data management in a national security context, enhancing community literacy of security and (in)security histories to equip them to be custodians of their narratives and empower them to critically engage in national reconstruction in post-colonial contexts.
Hannah Cox
X University (Ryerson renaming in progress)
Email: hchristinecox [at] gmail.com
Areas of interest: My main research interests focus on the intersections of women, security, and migration. I am primarily focused on the consequences of securitization on women as push factors for migration. As nations move towards peace through security, these efforts are indirectly affecting marginalized women. Securitization is causing forms of human insecurity.
Heather Tasker
Email: hctasker [at] yorku.ca
Areas of interest: My research interests centre around human rights, legal pluralism, and gendered conceptions of justice for conflict-related violence. My dissertation examines community perceptions of sexual abuses by peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo to better understand the serious gaps between the UN approach to 鈥楽EA鈥� and how survivors and communities envision justice for these offenses.
Eylul Kara
University of British Columbia
Email: eylul.kara2507 [at] gmail.com
Areas of interest: I am really interested in the politics of humanitarianism, and women peace, and security. My primary focus is studying gender and conflict during complex emergencies from an intersectional lens. I primarily focus on the Middle East and North Africa. Moreover, my policy interests mainly encompass gender, education and public policy.
Emma Fingler
Emma Donnaint
Universit茅 de Montr茅al, D茅partement de science politique
Email: emma.donnaint [at] umontreal.ca
Areas of interest: I am interested in women's agency in armed conflicts, as well as their involvement in peace processes, particularly in UN's DDR programs. I also study the effects of liberal co-option of women's rights on their insecurity within the post-conflict context (my primarly focus is Afghanistan).
Melissa Deehring
Harvard University Extension School
Email: melissa_deehring [at] g.harvard.edu
Areas of interest: Advancing public knowledge of WPS agenda, implementing WPS Act of 2017 & US WPS Strategy, incorporating WPS data into intelligence collection and national security decisions, advancing women in law & SDGs 5&16
Erica Oliver
Aya Laurie Salome Kouadio
Dana Shami
Sandra Biskupski-Mujanovic
Shhreyaa Mande
Morgan Fox
Queen's University / Centre for International and Defence Policy
Email: morgan.fox [at] queensu.ca
Areas of interest: I conduct research on NATO's implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda. My other interests include: women's roles in transitional justice processes, conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence, feminist nationalism, and the WPS agenda in Ukraine.
Ninon Capon-Lavergne
Vanja Zdjelar
Annika Maulucci
Dilara Bektas
Ivana Zdjelar
Vaishnavi Panchanadam
The University of British Columbia
Email: vaishnavipanch [at] gmail.com
Areas of interest: The role of domestic civil society in global norm diffusion; NGOs and other organizations that uplift survivors of conflict-related gender based violence; art as transformative justice that facilitates healing for survivors; climate change as a security threat whose effects are gendered and racialized; the anthropocene as an epoch that embodies racism and planetary destruction
Harshini Ramesh
听平特五不中, Max Bell School of Public Policy
Email: harshini.vangalnatesaramesh [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Areas of interest: I am interested in climate/sustainability/environmental and gender/intersectionality issues, as the they relate to one another.
Rebacca Haines
听平特五不中
Email: rebecca.haines [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Areas of interest: women's leadership in anti-authoritarian/anti-coup social mobilizations; possibilities for making gender equality gains in these spaces.
Sonia Nouri
Esli Chan
听平特五不中
Email: esli.chan [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Areas of interest: My research interests are in how technology mobilizes extremism and its connection to gender issues. My current research focuses on how women are recruited into far-right extremist movements online.
Owen Wong
听Queen's University
Email: 17onw1 [at] queensu.ca
Areas of interest: WPS in international organizations, the gender in ethnic conflict, post conflict reconstruction
Alida Oegema Thomas
听University of British Columbia
Email: alidathomasc [at] gmail.com
Areas of interest: Climate Justice and WPS; Climate Migration
Elisa Alloul
听平特五不中
Email: elisa.alloul [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Areas of interest: Global policy, peace and security and its impact on Women and gender equality, and the effects of disinformation on geopolitical conflicts.