People

Lenard J. Cohen
Professor Emeritus
cohen@sfu.ca

Lenard J. Cohen is a co-founder of the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University, and since 2009, Professor Emeritus. His interests include comparative political development with a special emphasis on the East European, Balkan and Eurasian regions. His research and teaching have focused on issues relating to political democratization, state-building and nation-building, and the challenges facing post-conflict environments and failing states.

Elizabeth Cooper
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Sep 1, 2011 - Aug 31, 2013)
Harbour Centre 7242
778.782.8425 (no voicemail)
eccooper@sfu.ca

Elizabeth Cooper received her degrees from the University of Oxford (DPhil and MPhil in Social Anthropology) and the University of British Columbia (MA in Planning, BA in International Relations). Her doctoral research focused on individual and collective experiences of orphanhood due to HIV and AIDS in western Kenya. Elizabeth has also conducted and published academic and policy-focused research concerning poverty, forced migration, violence, child protection, and land rights in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Mozambique.

Stephen T. Easton
Associate Member (Professor of Economics)
West Mall Complex 3641
778.782.3565
easton@sfu.ca

Stephen Easton is Professor of Economics and Associate Member of International Studies at SFU. Easton’s main teaching areas are international trade/finance and economic history. Current research interests include the nature of international debt; the economics of education, and the economics of crime and punishment.

Paul Meyer
Adjunct Professor
Harbour Centre 7292
778.782.8520
pmeyer@sfu.ca

Paul Meyer is Adjunct Professor of International Studies, Fellow in International Security at the Centre for Dialogue and Senior Fellow at the Simons Foundation.  Meyer is a former Canadian diplomat who retired from the Foreign Service in September 2010 after a 35 year career. His research interests include nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, outer space security, conflict prevention and cyber security.

Kristina Roepstorff
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Sep 26, 2011 - Sep 25, 2012)
kroepsto@sfu.ca

Kristina Roepstorff received her degrees from Bremen University, Germany, (PhD Political Science), SOAS (MA International and Comparative Legal Studies) and LMU Munich, Germany (M.A. Philosophy, Social Anthropology and Religious Studies). In her doctoral thesis she examined normative foundations of the right of self-determination in international law and the design of institutions and legitimate forms of governance in plural societies. In 2007 she was a Marie Curie Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Humanitarian Action and Conflict Studies at University College Dublin, where she since has been an Occasional Lecturer on the Joint European Master's Degree in International Humanitarian Action (NOHA).  From 2009 until 2011, she held a position as Assistant Professor at the Chair of Comparative Government at Erfurt University, Germany, and was Lecturer and Academic Coordinator in the Conflict Studies and Management Programme at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy. Her research and teaching focus on ethno-political conflicts, conflict resolution, peacebuilding and humanitarian action with a regional focus on South Asia, particularly India.