Dr. Tiberghien (Ph.D. Stanford) is a specialist in comparative politics (Japan, Korea, and EU, France) and international political economy. His core interest lies in the interactions between globalization and domestic politics and in the debate on the convergence of types of capitalism under financial globalization. Prof. Tiberghien has several ongoing research projects at the moment: a project on the growing convergence of policy responses to Globalization between Japan and the EU, a project on the sources of change in Japan’s political economy, a project on the EU’s role as a mediator of globalization, and a project on politics of global GMO governance. He has contributed several book chapters to forthcoming books on the Japanese crisis or the evolution of the East Asian Capitalist Model since 1997, as well as several articles on the current puzzles of Japan’s political economy and on corporate governance reforms in the EU. His book, “Invisible Reforms: Financial Globalization, State Mediation, and Corporate Restructuring” should come out in 2007, as well as several articles on the current puzzles of Japan’s political economy and on corporate governance reforms in the EU. He is currently writing several articles and a book manuscript on the global battle over GMOs.
Prof. Sens (Ph.D, Queen's) specializes in international relations, with a research and teaching focus on international security. He has a particular interest in armed conflict and conflict management, and maintains research agendas on peace support operations, peace building, European security, and Canadian foreign and defense policy. His current research projects include a study of the impact of military "transformation" on peace support and stabilization operations, and a project on peace operations in the Middle East. Dr. Sens is also working on the fourth edition of Global Politics, a co-authored international relations textbook. Prof. Sens is currently chair of the International Relations Program, an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program in the Faculty of Arts. Allen Sens is co-coordinator of the Terry Project and the related Global Citizenship Seminar Series. He is a graduate of the UBC Certificate Program in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. In 2003, Dr. Sens was a recipient of the UBC Killam Teaching Prize.
Philip Resnick (Ph.D, Toronto) combines an interest in political theory with Canadian (and Quebec) politics and European politics. His books include: Letters to a Québécois Friend; The Masks of Proteus: Canadian Reflections on the State; Toward a Canada-Quebec Union; Thinking English Canada; Twenty-First Century Democracy; The Politics of Resentment: B.C. Regionalism and Canadian Unity; and The European Roots of Canadian Identity. His current research focuses on national identities within multinational federations and on the nature of North American identity.
Prof. Petro (Ph.D., Alberta) is currently coordinator of the Russian program (in the Department of Germanic Studies), and Chair of the Program in Modern European Studies. He has taught Russian language at all levels, undergraduate courses in Russian literature and in Slavic literatures in translation as well as graduate seminars in Russian and comparative literature. Dr. Petro's research has recently focused primarily on Slovak literature, but he has also published extensively on Russian, Czech, Polish and comparative literature. In addition to over sixty articles and translations, his publications include four books: Modern Satire: Four Studies (1982), which deals with the works of modern Czech, English, Russian and American authors; History of Slovak Literature (1995); a translation of the prize-winning novel by Milan Simecka, The Year of the Frog (1993); and an edition of critical articles on Milan Kundera, Critical Essays on Milan Kundera (New York: G.K Hall Ltd., 1999). His translation of Alexej Fulmek's Dispatches from the Home Front appeared in 2000. Dr. Petro is member of the editorial boards of Slovakia and Most, and of the advisory board of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal.
Prof. Pailer (Ph.D. Karlsruhe) joined the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies in 2001 leaving a position at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Research and teaching focus on concepts of gender, identity, and intertextuality in literature. Her doctoral thesis, (published in 1994), deals with concept of women's authorship in the prose works of Hedwig Dohm and on literary Nietzsche-reception around 1900. Current publications and projects include a monograph about interrelations of family and state models in 18th century tragedy, an encyclopedia of prose works and dramas by German women authors (with Gudrun Loster-Schneider, University of Mannheim), a German comedy edition (with Linda Dietrick, Univ. of Winnipeg), and a three-year workshop programme on intersections of gender, laughter and media.
Prof. O'Mahony (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego) specializes in international and comparative political economy. Her dissertation examines the tradeoffs governments face in adopting sustainable monetary regimes (the interrelated choice of exchange rates and monetary policy) in a world of high international capital mobility, focusing on the interplay between the government and politically important domestic economic interest groups. Prof. O’Mahony’s research focuses on how increasing international economic ties interact with domestic interests and institutions to shape economic decision making. While many scholars argue that international economic integration has resulted in an environment in which countries can no longer assert control over their ties to the international system, Dr. O'Mahony's research suggests that international economic integration may alter the tools available to the government, but has not obviated the government’s ability to control the domestic economy.
Prof. McIlroy’s (Ph.D. UBC) main research and publication interests are in the fields of British, Canadian and Irish Cinema. Previously, he worked and published on contemporary Irish fiction, mainly Brian Moore and John Banville. He has taught every film studies course UBC offers, has published several books, edited a special issue of a journal, and written various articles on cinematic topics. Currently, Dr. McIlroy is working on editing a collection of essays on Genre and Irish Cinema to be published by Routledge in 2007.
Prof. Jacobs (Ph.D. Harvard) specializes in the comparative politics of advanced industrialized democracies and in the politics of public policy, with particular emphasis on the welfare state. He currently teaches courses on comparative public policy and on qualitative research methods. Jacobs' current research, supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the UBC Hampton Fund, seeks to explain how democratic governments make intertemporal policy tradeoffs. Specifically, he is interested in understanding the conditions under which elected governments adopt policies that have short-term costs but long-term social benefits -- a type of policy choice he terms a "policy investment." To date he has examined the politics of policy investment within the field of public pension financing in Europe and North America (focusing on Germany, Britain, the United States, and Canada). In related work-in-progress, Jacobs is designing a public-opinion survey to illuminate the structure of citizens' attitudes toward policy investments in a range of policy fields.
Prof. Hallensleben (Ph.D. Free University Berlin) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies and was appointed Visiting Scholar at Nagoya City University and DAAD Lecturer at The University of Tokyo before joining UBC in 2004.
Prof. Feldman (PhD Syracuse 2001) is a political anthropologist interested in the state, minority rights, national identity, and international relations. His research follows three lines of inquiry: 1) how EU accession privileges the national majority in east Europe by appropriating neoliberal modes of social and economic organization; 2) how elites of statecraft (diplomats, government officials, NGO leaders) can be studied ethnographically, and how their work has the effect of inducing political order through the construction of minorities in law, public policy, and international treaties; and 3) how diplomacy as a performative act frames debates and policies on about inter-state and minority-state relations. He is currently preparing a new research agenda on the policymaking practices of elites in international organizations who work to unify immigration policies of European nation-states. This research will examine networks among policy elites that link such organization as OSCE, EC, IOM, and the Council of Europe. Dr. Feldman is the convener of UBC’s Inter-Faculty Initiative on Migration Studies (IFIMS). He has also consulted for the United Nations Development Programme to evaluate ethnic integration programs in Estonia funded by the European Union-PHARE Programme and the Nordic countries.
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