Full Time Faculty

Christopher Alcantara

Professor
calcanta@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 X 85171

Office: SSC 7308
Office Hours: Monday 1:00pm-2:00pm (POL 2530) or by appointment & Thursday 10:00-11:00am (POL 1030F)

Research
Governance, Institutions, Intergovernmental Relations, Indigenous-Settler Politics, Political Behaviour, Elections and Voting Behaviour

Teaching
Canadian Politics, Public Administration, Public Policy, Multilevel Governance, Regional and Local Government

Cameron Anderson

Anderson

Professor
Director of Placement
cander54@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 X 81163

Office: SSC 7312
Office Hours: Thursday 2:00-3:00pm or by appointment

Research
Canadian Politics, Elections, Voting, Public Opinion, Multilevel Governance

Teaching
Canadian Politics, Political Behaviour, Research Design

Dave Armstrong

Armstrong

Associate Professor
Director, Centre for Computational and Quantitative Social Science
dave.armstrong@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 x 85160

Office: SSC 7310
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00am-2:00pm or By Appointment

Research
Statistics, Measurement, Data Visualization, Human Rights, Democracy, Conflict

Teaching
Generalized Linear Models, Measurement, Data Visualization, Research Design, Bayesian Statistics

Nandita Biswas Mellamphy

BiswasMellamphy

Associate Professor, Undergraduate Chair
nbiswasm@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 X 81161

Office: SSC 7316
Office Hours: Tuesday 1:30-2:30pm (or a Zoom appointment can be scheduled outside of the in-person office hour)

Research
Political Theory, Post-Structuralism, Techno-Politics and Digital Culture, War and Surveillance

Teaching
History of Political Thought (Antiquity, Modernity, Postmodernity), Critical Theories, Feminism, and War on Terror

Dan Bousfield

Bousfield

Assistant Professor Director of IR Program dbousfie@uwo.ca 519-661-2111 X 85114	Office: SSC 7324 Office Hours: WINTER Tuesday & Thursday 9:30-10:30am (on Zoom) or by appointment FALL Monday 3:30-5:30pm or by appointment
Research Political Economy of Protest, Psychoanalysis and Politics, Gender Studies, International Relations and Qualitative Methodology, Ethnography, Korean Social Movements, Militant Masculinities Teaching International Relations, International Political Economy, Comparative Politics, East Asian Politics

Evelyne Brie

Assistant Professor
ebrie@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 X 85023

Office: SSC 7233
Office Hours: Mondays 3:00pm-5:00pm (online and in person)

Research
Comparative Politics, Canadian Politics, Political Economy, Electoral Behaviour, Urban Politics

Teaching
Statistics and Methods, Data Science, Nations and Nationalism

Caroline Dick

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Associate Professor
cdick4@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 X 85167

Office: SSC 7326
Office Hours: POL3332: Thursday 10:30-11:30am (Zoom) & POL4203/9734: Thursday 11:30am-12:30pm (Zoom)

Research
Law and Politics, Gender, Racialization, Critical Race Feminism, Minority Social Groups and Inequality, In-Group Oppression and Intersectionality, Indigenous Rights

Teaching
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Legal Ethics and The Judiciary, The Politics of Racialization, Canadian Identity Politics, Gender and Politics, Critical Race Feminism

Marta Dyczok

Dyczok

Associate Professor Joint Appointment with History mdyczok@uwo.ca 519-661-2111 X 84982	Office: LwH 2246 Office Hours: Wednesday 11:00–1:00pm or by appointment
Research International Politics and History; Focus on Eastern Europe, Former Soviet Union; Specifically Ukraine, Media Migration, and Post-Communism Teaching Russian and Eastern European Politics and History, and Comparative Politics

Elizabeth Finneron-Burns

Assistant Professor
efinnero@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 X 82236

Office: SSC 7211
Office Hours: Thursdays 10:00am-11:00am

Research
Future Generations, Contractualism, Human Extinction, Global Justice, Applied Ethics

Teaching
Contemporary Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Applied Ethics

Amanda Friesen

Associate Professor Canada Research Chair in Political Psychology (Tier 2) Director, The Body Politics Lab afries4@uwo.ca 519-661-2111 X 88106	Office: SSC 7245 Office Hours: By appointment
Research Political Psychology, Gender, Religion, Resilience and Efficacy, Biology and Politics

Adam Harmes

Harmes

Associate Professor
aharmes@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 X 85173

Office: SSC 7219
Office Hours: FALL: Monday 10:30-11:30am or by appointment WINTER: By Appointment

Research
Conservative and Progressive Interest Groups and Political Parties (Canada, US, Anglosphere), Advocacy and Election Campaign Techniques, Economic and Foreign Policy

Teaching
Business and Government, Political Strategy and Communication, International Relations

Martin Horak

Horak

Associate Professor
mhorak@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 X 85002

Office: SSC 7237
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00–3:00pm or by appointment (in person or on Zoom)

Research
Canadian and Comparative Urban Politics, Local Government, Multilevel Governance, Institutional Change, Policy Studies (infrastructure, sustainability, housing), Urban Social Cooperation and Self-Government, Qualitative Methods

Teaching
Qualitative Research Methods, Urban Politics, Local Government, Policy Studies, Comparative Politics

Charles Jones

Jones

Associate Professor cwjones@uwo.ca 519-661-2111 X 85060	Office: SSC 7213 Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00pm-3:00pm & Thursday 11:00am - 12:00noon
Research Cosmopolitanism, Theories of Justice, International Political Theory, Normative Aspects of Nationalism Teaching International Justice, History of Political Thought, Contemporary Political Thought

Matthew Lebo

Matt Lebo

Department Chair, Professor
matthew.lebo@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 X 88562

Office: SSC 7239
Office Hours: Thursday 9:30-11:30am or by appointment

Research
The American Congress and The Presidency, Political Parties, Political Behaviour and Elections, British Politics, Political Methodology

Teaching
American Politics, Political Behaviour, British Politics, and Research Methods

Joseph Lyons

J. Lyons

Assistant Professor Director, Local Government Program jlyons7@uwo.ca 519-661-2111 X 85168	Office: SSC 7215 Office Hours: FALL Wednesday 1:30-3:30pm WINTER Thursday 10:00-12:00pm
Research Local Government, Multilevel Governance, Special Purpose Bodies Teaching Business and Government, Local Government, Urban Political Analysis

Bruce Morrison

Morrison

Assistant Professor bmorris2@uwo.ca 519-661-2111 X 84937	Office: SSC 7225 Office Hours: Thursday 12:00-1:00pm or by appointment
Research Democratization, State Formation, State Society Relations, Social Policy Teaching West European Politics, Social Politics, European Integration, Political Parties, Social Movements

Nigmendra Narain

Narain

Lecturer and Course Coordinator of Politics 1020E nnarain@uwo.ca 519-661-2111 X 85108	Office: SSC 7322 Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00-4:00pm and by appointment
Research International Relations Theory, Feminist Theory, India and Pakistan, South Asian Women's Organizations Teaching International Relations, Gender and Politics

Joanna Quinn

Professor Director, Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction jquinn2@uwo.ca 519-661-2111 X 85172	Office: SSC 7314 Office Hours: Currently on Leave
Research Truth Commissions, Transitional Justice Teaching Human Rights, Democratization, International Relations

Erika Simpson

Simpson

Associate Professor simpson@uwo.ca 519-661-2111 X 85156	Office: SSC 7235 Office Hours: Monday 9:00-11:00am (Via Zoom) Please note that the Meeting ID and Passcode are restricted to registered students - see the course syllabus on OWL or contact the course instructor
Research International Security, Canadian Defence, Foreign Policy, NATO, Peacekeeping Teaching International Relations, International Security, International Relations Theory

Laura Stephenson

Stephenson

Professor, Graduate Chair Co-Director, Political Behaviour Research Group laura.stephenson@uwo.ca 519-661-2111 X 85164	Office: SSC 7243 Office Hours: FALL: Wednesday 1:30-3:30pm or by appointment WINTER: By appointment
Research Political Behaviour, Elections, Institutions, Comparative Economy, Canadian Politics, Experimental Political Science Teaching Canadian Politics, Voting Behaviour, Methodology

Zack Taylor

Associate Professor
Director, Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance
zack.taylor@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 X 85169

Office: SSC 7247
Office Hours: By Appointment:

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Research
Canadian and Comparative Politics and Public Policymaking, Contemporary and Historical Development of Multi-Level Governance, Planning of North American Cities, Political and Electoral Geography

Mathieu Turgeon

Associate Professor
mturgeo4@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 X 84929

Office: SSC 7223
Office Hours: Wednesday 12:00-2:00pm

Research
Comparative Political Behaviour; Statistical, Experimental and Survey Methodology

Teaching
Political Psychology, Public Opinion, Methodology

Sebastián Vallejo Vera

Assistant Professor
sebastian.vallejo@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 X 85163

Office: SSC 7221
Office Hours: Monday 11:30-1:30pm or by appointment

Research
Politics and Gender, Racial Identity and Racism, Latin American Politics, Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science

Teaching
Politics of the Developing World, Statistics and Methods, Natural Language Processing

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