Faculty and Staff
Full-Time Faculty
Lyubov Zhyznomirska
Associate Professor and 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
Marc Doucet
Professor
International Relations ( View Bio )
902-491-8604
marc.doucet@smu.ca
Office hours:
On sabbatical, September 1, 2026 - August 31, 2027
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
Karen McAllister
Associate 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:
On leave, September 1, 2026 - August 31, 2027
Paulo Ravecca
Associate 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:
Mondays, 9:00am - 11:00am
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:00am - 11:00am
Or by appointment
Hannah Wyile
Assistant Professor
Canadian Politics (View Bio)
902-491-6689
Email: hannah.wyile@smu.ca
Office hours:
Monday, 1:30pm – 3:30pm
Tuesday, 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Wednesday, 1:30pm – 3:30pm
Thursday, 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Or by appointment
William Tilleczek
Assistant Professor
Political Theory; History of political thought (global/comparative); Critical theory; Anti-colonial political thought; Citizenship and social justice; Labour and technology (View Bio)
902-491-6237
Email: william.tilleczek@smu.ca
Oxana Pimenova
Assistant Professor LTA
Indigenous-Crown relations and Indigenous consultations in Canada; Public policy and administrative state; Argumentation and deliberative democracy; Rhetorical injustice and the marginalization of dissenting voices; Computational methods and natural language processing in public policy research; European Union law, legal integration, and the principle of subsidiarity.
902-491-6599
Oxana.Pimenova@smu.ca
Office hours:
Monday, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Wednesday, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Emeritus Faculty
Alexandra Dobrowolsky
Professor Emerita
Canadian and Comparative - Politics, Public Policy, Women, Gender & Politics ( View Bio )
adobrowolsky@smu.ca
Stella Gaon
Professor Emeritus
Political Thought ( View Bio )
stella.gaon@smu.ca
Evangelia (Evie) Tastsoglou
Professor Emerita (Sociology)
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
Henry Veltmeyer
Professor Emeritus
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
Adjunct 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
Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete
Critical development studies, agrarian political economy, politics of extractivism in Latin America
Office hours:
By appointment
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
Darryl Eisan
Office hours:
By appointment
Staff
Victoria Michels
Administrative Assistant
MN 414
902-420-5808