Researchers

Yildiz Atasoy

yatasoy@sfu.ca
Institutional affiliation: Professor, Department of sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University

Areas of research: Political economy; globalization; political sociology; development studies; gender relations; cultural politics; Islamic politics; Turkey; Middle East, comparative perspectives on Latin America.

Alison Ayers

ajayers@sfu.ca
Institutional affiliation: Professor, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University

Areas of research: theories of global/international political economy, globalization, imperialism and development, the theorization of the state,
the constitutive role of the subaltern within the global political economy, democratization and governance,
war and armed conflict, and the philosophy and methodology of social science.

Sherri Brown

sherrib@sfu.ca
Institutional affiliation: Ph D, Simon Fraser University

Areas of research: political economy and global health, political economy of access to medicines, gender and political economy.

Duncan Cameron

Institutional affiliation: Adjunct Professor, Political Science, Simon Fraser University, director of the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy at Concordia University

Areas of research: political economy of trade, Canadian politics, international development.

Marjorie Griffin Cohen

mcohen@sfu.ca
Institutional affiliation: Professor, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University

Areas of research: The Gendered and Precarious Nature of Teenage Work, Feminist Economics in the Real World, Women and Free Trade

Claire Cutler

ccutler@uvic.ca
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Institutional affiliation: Professor of International Law and International Relations, Political Science, University of Victoria.

Areas of research: critical studies in international relations and international law and the Privatization of International Security

Andy Hira

ahira@sfu.ca
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Institutional affiliation: Professor, Political Science, SFU

Areas of research: industrial, technology, and energy policies the developing world.

Geoff Mann

geoffm@sfu.ca
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Institutional affiliation: Dept. of Geography, Simon Fraser University

Areas of research: money, monetary policy, labour, value, unemployment, race and gender

Julie MacArthur

jmacarth@sfu.ca
Institutional affiliation: PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University

Areas of research: the development and spread of the social and solidarity economy, Political economy of energy in Canada

Stephen McBride

mcbridea@sfu.ca
Institutional affiliation: Professor & Director, Centre for Global Political Economy Department of Political Science

Areas of research: International Trade and Investment Agreements, Global Policy and Governance, Labour, Employment and Work, Privatisation

Hepzibah Munoz Martínez

hma25@sfu.ca
Institutional affiliation: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Areas of research: financial derivatives, the political economy of Mexico, maquiladors, critical geography, and development

Gerardo Otero

otero@sfu.ca
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Institutional affiliation: Professor of Sociology, Simon Fraser University

Areas of research: Political sociology, social movements, rural sociology, political economy of the world system, state-society relations in semiperipheral nations, neoliberal globalism and agricultural biotechnology in Latin America.

Ingo Schmidt

ingos@athabascau.ca
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Institutional affiliation: Academic Coordinator, Labour Studies, Athabasca University

Areas of research: trade unions in Germany, European integration and international political economy, comparison of neo-liberal policies across various countries in the North and South.

Gary Teeple

teeple@sfu.ca
Institutional affiliation: Professor of Sociology, Simon Fraser University

Areas of research: Neo-liberalism and the global division of labour; the politics of human rights; Hegelian and Marxist philosophy; the sociology of art; political sociology; and the political economy of Canada.

John R. Young

johnr_young@hotmail.com
Areas of research: peace, security, and regional relations in the Horn of Africa.

Heather Whiteside

heather.whiteside@sfu.ca
Institutional affiliation: PhD Candidate, Political Science, Simon Fraser University

Areas of research: the political economy of privatization and
public-private partnerships (currently focused on the health care sector).

Russell Alan Williams

russellw@mun.ca
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Institutional affiliation: Assistant Professor/Graduate Coordinator, Department of Political Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Areas of research: impact of globalization and International Political Economy on public policy in Canada.

Habiba Zaman

hzaman@sfu.ca
Institutional Affiliation: Associate professor in Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University

Areas of research: Women in the economy, immigrants and transnational migration, gender and international development, and women in cross-cultural perspectives.