Faculty & Research
Paul Shaffer
Associate Professor & Chair of the Department
B.A. (UBC), M.A. (Toronto), D.Phil. (Sussex)
Research Interests: Interdisciplinary poverty analysis, methodological pluralism, poverty reduction strategies, gender and poverty, impact assessment and monitoring of development programs and policies, political economy of development, development economics.
Full Professors
A.H. Akram-Lodhi
Professor, International Development Studies
B.A. (SOAS, London), M.Phil. (Cambridge), Ph.D. (Manitoba)
Research Interests: Political economy of agrarian change in developing capitalist countries; economic dimensions of gender relations; the political ecology of sustainable rural livelihoods and communities in contemporary poor countries.
Winnie Lem
Professor, International Development Studies
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interests: Migration, transnationalism, citizenship; regionalism, nationalism, gender, entrepreneurs, diasporas, ethnicity, urbanization, work, household economies; agrarian change; rural politics; racism; culture and political economy; Europe; Asia.
Associate Professors
Feyzi Baban
Associate Professor, International Development Studies
B.A., M.A. (Bogazici), Ph.D. (Carleton)
Research Interests: Cosmopolitan theory and normative theories of international relations; the politics of citizenship in late modern societies; alternative forms of modernity in non-Western culture.
Chris Beyers
Associate Professor, International Development Studies
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (York), D.Phil. (Sussex)
Research Interests: Citizenship, rights and identity; Forced migration; Transitional justice; Memory and memorialization; Land struggles in South Africa; Migration in the Andes; Bakhtin.
Colleen O'Manique
Associate Professor, International Development Studies
B.A. (Carleton) M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Research Interests: Gender and Global Restructuring, Global Political Economy of Health, Global Health Governance, Global Health Security, Global Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Politics of HIV/AIDS, Global/Feminist Perspectives on Human Rights, Feminist Political Ecology
Assistant Professor
Hasmet Uluorta
Assistant Professor
B.A., B.S.W. (UBC), M.A. (ISS), Ph.D. (York)
Research Interests: Globalization; theories of international relations; global political economy; development theory; employment and work strategies.
Baris Karaagac
Course Instructor
B.A. (Turkey), M.A., Ph.D Candidate (Toronto)
Research Interests: European integration, European social democracy, state theory, authoritarianism, Turkish political economy and foreign policy, and history of the Middle East.
Department/Administrative Contact
Dana Barker Gee
CC Suite C1.1 (Champlain College)
705-748-1339 • phone
Send an e-mail to danagee@trentu.ca
Associated Faculty
- Administrative Studies: R. Dart
- Anthropology: A. Meneley
- Cultural Studies: A. O'Connor
- Economics: S. Choudhry
- Environmental & Resource Science/Studies: S. Bocking, R. Ponce-Hernandez, T. Whillans
- History: D. Sheinin
Professors Emeriti
- C.V. Huxley, B.A. (York, England), M.A. (Simon Fraser), Ph.D. (Toronto)
- D.R. Morrison, M.A. (Saskatchewan), D.Phil. (Sussex)
- J. Solway, B.A. (Oakland), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Adjunct Professors
- J. Clapp, B.A. (Michigan), M.Sc., Ph.D. (London School of Economics)
- E. Helleiner, B.A. (Toronto), M.Sc., Ph.D. (London School of Economics)
- Pablo Andrade, B.A. (Pontifica Universidad Católica del Ecuador), M.A. (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales), Ph.D. (York)