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

Marc Doucet

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

Evangelia (Evie) Tastsoglou
Professor [Retired]

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

Office hours:
Retired.

Hannah Wyile
Assistant Professor

Canadian Politics (View Bio)

902-491-6689
Email: hannah.wyile@smu.ca

Office hours:
Monday, 1:30pm – 3:30pm
Tuesday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Wednesday, 1:30am – 3:30am
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

Office hours Fall 2026:

Wednesdays, 12pm-6pm

Emeritus Faculty

Alexandra Dobrowolsky
Professor Emerita

Alexandra Dobrowolsky

Canadian and Comparative - Politics, Public Policy, Women, Gender & Politics ( View Bio )
adobrowolsky@smu.ca

Stella Gaon
Professor Emeritus

Stella Gaon 2024

Political Thought ( View Bio )
stella.gaon@smu.ca

Adjunct Faculty

Catherine Baillie Adibi

Educational Studies

cfbailie@hotmail.com

David Black

Canadian foreign policy; comparative politics of development Africa

david.black@dal.ca

John Kirk

Global health; Cuban development model; Cuban medical system (at home and abroad); Latin American development issues

kirk@dal.ca

Alex Marland
Adjunct Professor (Acadia University)
Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership

Alex Marland

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

ronnie.munck@dcu.ie

Shiva Nourpanah

Social Anthropology

shiva.nourpanah@gmail.com

Mehmet Nuri Gütekin

Social change; refugees and migration in the MENA region; social transformation in the rural Turkey; sociology of literature

mngultekin@gmail.com

Anupam Pandey

Gender and development; method and theory in research; South Asia

anupam.pandey@smu.ca

Sandy Petrinioti

Migration and displacement, European Union migration and asylum policies, gender, migration and development

sandy.petrinioti@smu.ca

Cecil Ryan

Community human resource development; natural resource management; community economic development; educational planning

seeryan@vincysurf.com

Darcy Tetreault

Social environmental conflicts, mining, water, extractivism and agrarian transformation

darcy.tetreault@uaz.edu.mx

Edgar Zayago Lau

Technology and development; nanotechnology and national development policy

zayagolau@gmail.com

Part-Time and Limited Term Faculty

Saja Al Zoubi

saja.al.zoubi@smu.ca

Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete

Critical development studies, agrarian political economy, politics of extractivism in Latin America

Arturo.Ezquerro-Canete@smu.ca

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

Madhuparna.Gupta@smu.ca

Alfred G. Nhema