Politics, Conflict and Law

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Faculty research and teaching in this field covers politics and conflict in most regions of the world. Our interests range from state domestic politics and policy, to conflict and resistance within states, conflicts between states, and the legal dimensions of social relations from crime to citizenship to work.

Faculty:

Sarah Carter (Canada, US borderlands)

Heather Coleman (Russia, Eastern Europe)

Jairan Gahan (Modern Islam/Middle East and North Africa, Modern Iran)

Jaymie Heilman (Illicit drugs, political radicalism in Latin America, twentieth century)

Jocelyn Hendrickson (Islamic legal history)

Volodymyr Kravchenko (Ukraine, Eastern Europe, USSR)

David Marples (Eastern Europe, USSR)

Kenneth Mouré (Politics, policy and diplomacy in Western Europe, 20th century)

James Muir (Social history of law, social science methods and legal history; Canada)

Sarah Nickel (Indigenous political activism, direct action, political organizing, sovereignty, twentieth century)

Sharon Romeo (US history)

Robert Smith (State science and technology policies)

Shannon Stunden Bower (Canada, environmental history, water, agriculture)