Nadine Changfoot completed her B.A. in Public Policy and Administration (York), M.A. in Public Administration (Carleton), and Ph.D. in Political Science (York). She is Senior Research Associate with Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice at University of Guelph. She was Chair of Political Studies January 1, 2014 – June 30, 2017. She has taught at York University and Duke University, and also been a Visiting Scholar at Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies and Political Science at Duke University and Political Science at University of California at Berkeley. Nadine has also worked as policy analyst for the Ontario and Federal governments and senior management consultant for a private firm in Ottawa.
“Cultivating Disability Arts in Canada” with Eliza Chandler, Carla Rice, Andrea Lamarre and Roxanne Mykitiuk. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 2018, v. 40, n.3: 249-260.
“Making Spaces: Multimedia Storytelling as Reflexive, Creative Praxis,” with Carla Rice, Andrea Lamarre, Patty Douglas. Qualitative Research in Psychology. Published online (March 27, 2018)
Chapter 5 “Strengthening Our Activisms at the Intersections of the Personal, Professional, Disability, and Aging,” with Mary Anne Ansley and Andrea Dodsworth.Unsettling Activisms: Critical Interventions on Aging, Gender, and Social Change. Editors May Chazan, Melissa Baldwin, and Pat Evans. Toronto: Women’s Press Canada, 2018: 129-144.
“Imagining Disability Futurities,” with Carla Rice, Eliza Chandler, Jen Rinaldi, Kirsty Liddiard, Ingrid Mundel, and Roxanne Mykitiuk. Hypatia: Feminist Journal of Philosophy. v 32 no. 2 Spring 2017: 213-229.
“Chapter 2 Imagining Otherwise: The Ephemeral Spaces of Envisioning New Meanings.” with Carla Rice and Eliza Chandler. Mobilizing metaphor: Art, culture and disability activism in Canada. Eds. Christine Kelly & Michael Orsini. Vancouver: University British Columbia Press, 2016: 54-75.
“Why is Quebec Separatism Off the Agenda?: Reducing National Unity Crisis in the Neoliberal Era.” Lead co-author with Blair Cullen. Canadian Journal of Political Science/ Revue canadienne de science politique, v. 44, n. 4 December 2011: 769-787.
Nominated for the 2012 John McMenemy prize, the Canadian Political Science Association annual award for best scholarly article
“Transcendence in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex: Revisiting Masculinist Ontology.” Philosophy & Social Criticism. v. 35, n. 4 May 2009: 391-410.
“The Second Sex’s Continued Relevance for Equality and Difference Feminisms.” European Journal of Women’s Studies. v. 16, n.1 February 2009:11-31.
"Local Activism and Neoliberalism: Performing Neoliberal Citizenship as Resistance". Studies in Political Economy. 80, Autumn 2007: 129-148.
“Feminist Standpoint Theory, Hegel, and the Dialectical Self: Shifting Foundations,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, v. 30, 2004: 477-502.
“Hegel's Antigone: A Response to the Feminist Critique” The Owl of Minerva: Journal of the Hegel Society of America , v. 33, n. 2, Spring/Spring 2002, pp. 179-204. Featured article for this special issue on feminist critique of Hegel's thought.
"The Solidarity Deficit: The Rise of Neo-Liberalism in Canada and the National Unity Question," with Martin Morris. International Journal of Canadian Studies No. 14, Fall 1996: 137-154 (with M. Morris).
Nadine's teaching and research interests combine Canadian politics, political theory, and gender, women, critical disability, and sustainability studies. She teaches courses on topics of cultural politics, gender, women and politics, activist art, and democratizing Canadian society. Her research includes activist art and politics, community arts, arts-based and community based research on issues of disability and difference, environmental sustainability, and the (re)signification of Hegel's dialectic for feminist thought.