McGarry, John

John McGarry

John McGarry

Professor | Stephen Gyimah Distinguished University Professor

He/Him

PhD, MA (Western); BA (Trinity College, Dublin), O.C., F.R.S.C.

Political Studies

Comparative Politics

Professor | Stephen Gyimah Distinguished University Professor

Research Interests

Power-sharing; federalism; conflict resolution; constitutional design; politics of deeply divided places, such as Cyprus, Iraq, and Northern Ireland.

Brief Biography

John McGarry and Kilmoon at UN

McGarry’s work has had an important public policy dimension and impact. He has appeared as an expert witness before the International Relations Committee of the U.S. Congress; participated in briefings of the UN Security Council; and worked with several governments around the world. His work on power-sharing and policing reform in Northern Ireland has been seen as influential in the resolution of its conflict. In 2008-09, McGarry worked as the "Senior Advisor on Power-Sharing" to the United Nations (Standby Team, Mediation Support Unit), the first person appointed to this position. He is currently the lead advisor on power-sharing and governance in the UN-backed negotiations in Cyprus.

McGarry was appointed as a Canada Research Chair in 2002 (renewed in 2009 and 2016). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2010 and won the Trudeau Fellowship Prize in 2011. In 2013, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Killam Prize (Social Sciences), the first political scientist to win the latter award. In 2014, McGarry was awarded the Innis-Gérin Medal, the Royal Society of Canada's highest honour for a social scientist. In 2015 his research on conflict resolution was recognized by the Council of Ontario Universities (COU) as one of the top 50 examples of "game-changing" research conducted in Ontario during the past 100 years. In 2016, he was the co-winner of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section of the International Studies Association; was awarded the Molson Prize (Social Sciences and Humanities) by the Canada Council for the Arts and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2022, McGarry was awarded the Pearson Peace Medal, following the footsteps of General Romeo Dallaire, Supreme Court Chief Justice, Beverly McLachlin, and Supreme Court Justice, Louise Arbour.

McGarry has been a regular contributor to public media, in Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. He has written op-ed pages for several newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, and has also been interviewed for CBC TV, CBC Radio, CTV, National Public Radio, and TVO.

Born and brought up in Ireland, McGarry now lives in Kingston, Ontario.

Teaching

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Service (2024/2025)

On sabbatical

MacDonald, Eleanor

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Eleanor MacDonald

Associate Professor (Retired)

All Pronouns

PhD (York); MA, BA Hons. (Carleton)

Political Studies

Political Theory, Gender and Politics

Retired Professor

Research Interests

Contemporary political thought, including identity politics, feminist theory, critical theory, postmodern theory, Marxist theory, anti-racist theory, psychoanalytic theory, environmental theory, cultural studies, narrative theory, queer theory, race and sexuality studies, feminism, and transgender politics

Eleanor MacDonald retired from the Department in 2025.

Brief Biography

Eleanor MacDonald (B.A. and M.A. Carleton University, Ph.D. York University) arrived at Queen’s in 1990 as a Webster Postdoctoral Fellow. In 1993, she joined the Department of Political Studies as a member of the faculty and subsequently was cross-appointed to both the Department of Gender Studies and the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies. From 2004 to 2007, she also served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies. In 1994, MacDonald was a Visiting Scholar in the School of Political Economy at Carleton University, and in 2010, MacDonald was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

The focus of MacDonald’s research and teaching is in contemporary political theory. She has written on identity politics and on the political implications of postmodern and poststructuralist theory. In her current research, she is exploring the concept of property. Recent papers have considered the theoretical grounding of the link between identity and property, and the challenges that environmental concerns pose to the dominant paradigm regarding property ownership.

In 2012, MacDonald received the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Award for Excellence in Teaching. She received the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society Teaching Award in 1991 and was one of four finalists for the Alumni Teaching Award in 2005. In 2010, she was one of ten finalists in the TVO Best Lecturer competition. She has also been a finalist five times (98/99, 02/03, 04/05, 13/14, 14/15) for the Alma Mater Society’s Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching, and was nominated again for this award in 2015/16.

Little, Margaret

Margaret Little

Margaret Little

Professor

She/Her

PhD York University (Politics); MA Queen’s University (Politics); BJHons University of King’s College (Journalism)

Political Studies

Gender and Politics

Professor

mjhl@queensu.ca

Phone: (613) 533-6233

Robert Sutherland Hall, 424

Research Interests

Welfare; poverty; Basic Income; gendered & racialized violence; Canadian social policy; marginalized women’s activiism

Margaret Little would be interested in supervising graduate students in the areas of poverty in Canada, marginalized women’s activism in Canada, gender/race/indigeneity/sexuality and Canadian social policy.

Brief Biography

I like to think of myself as an anti-poverty activist and academic who works in the area of poverty, welfare reform, anti-poverty activist politics. I am jointly appointed to Gender Studies and Political Studies. In my spare (?!) time I am currently working on a 5-year SSHRC funded project exploring Indigenous, racialized, immigrant and low-income women’s political organizing in Canada during the 1960s-1980s. We are conducting archival and oral interviews to explore how their political strategies and agendas were quite distinctive from white mainstream feminist activism in the same era. Don’t ask me about it unless you want to hear a steady stream of excitement for 30 minutes!

I am most interested in supervising students in the areas of poverty, Canadian social policy, and marginalized women’s activism.

I am very fortunate to have been the recipient of a number of research awards including my current SSHRC Insight Grant (2018-23) entitled “Alternative visions: the politics of motherhood and family among Indigenous, immigrant, racialized and low-income activist women’s groups in Canada, 1960s-1980s”; a SSHRC Standard Grant (2006-2009) entitled "Who's Hurting Now? A Race, Class and Gender Analysis of Neo-Liberal Welfare Reforms in Canada", and the Chancellor's Research Award (2000-2005) to study the impact of welfare reforms under the Ontario Mike Harris Government.

Teaching

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Service (2024/2025)

  • Departmental Committee
  • Field Convenor (Gender and Politics) - Winter 2025

Moore, Margaret

Margaret Moore

Margaret Moore

Professor

She/Her

PhD (London School of Economics)

Political Studies

Political Theory

Professor

moorem@queensu.ca

Phone: (613) 533-6126

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, C300

Research Interests

Margaret Moore has a wide range of interests in contemporary political philosophy. Her interests include territorial justice and obligations with respect to place (ethics of biodiversity), global distributive justice, just war theory, historical injustice, democratic theory, rights, nationalism, multiculturalism, immigration, and selected theorists in the history of political thought.

Margaret Moore would be interested in supervising students in the areas of territorial rights (including jurisdictional rights, resource rights, common pool resources, some elements of ethics of migration, ethics of biodiversity), global distributive justice, just war theory, historical injustice, democratic theory, rights, nationalism, multiculturalism, and immigration.

Brief Biography

Margaret Moore is a professor in the Political Studies department, cross-appointed as a courtesy in Philosophy where she teaches in the Masters in Political and Legal Theory program. She is the author of four books, Who Should Own Natural Resources? (Polity 2019), A Political Theory of Territory (Oxford 2015), Ethics of Nationalism (Oxford 2001), and Foundations of Liberalism (Oxford 1993) and has edited several other books and journal special issues. A Political Theory of Territory was the winner of the Canadian Philosophical Association’s Best Book Prize in 2017 and was translated into Japanese in 2020. She has published in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Philosophical Studies, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Political Studies, and Ethics and International Affairs. In 2018 she was an RSS visiting fellow at the Australian National University (March-April) and the Olof Palme Visiting Research Professor at the University of Stockholm (July-December), and in 2019 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Teaching

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Service (2024/2025)

  • Appointments Committee
  • Departmental Committee
  • Political and Legal Theory Program Convenor
  • Renewal, Tenure, and Promotions Committee

Margaret is an Associate Editor of the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP). As a result of responsibilities connected to that position, she declines most review requests.

von Hlatky, Sté​fanie

Stefanie von Hlatky

Sté​fanie von Hlatky

Professor | Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Gender, Security and the Armed Forces

She/Her

PhD (Université de Montréal); BA (McGill University)

Political Studies

International Relations | Gender and Politics

Professor | Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Gender, Security and the Armed Forces

Research Interests

Military cooperation, NATO alliances, deterrence, and gender dynamics in the armed forces, Women, Peace, and Security

Stéfanie von Hlatky would be interested in supervising graduate students in the areas of Gender, Security, and the Armed Forces; Women, Peace, and Security; NATO and alliance politics.

Brief Biography

StĂ©fanie von Hlatky is the Canada Research Chair in Gender, Security and the Armed Forces, Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellow and former Director of the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University. She is a Full Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Associate Vice-Principal (Research). She’s previously held positions at Georgetown University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Dartmouth College, ETH Zurich and was a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at the University of Southern California’s Centre for Public Diplomacy.

She has published two monographs with Oxford University Press titled American Allies in Times of War: The Great Asymmetry (2013) and Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations (2022; 2025). Select edited volumes include Total Defence Forces in the Twenty-First Century (co-edited with Joakim Berndtsson and Irina Goldenberg), Transhumanising War: Performance Enhancement and the Implications for Policy, Society, and the Soldier (co-edited by H. Christian Breede and Stéphanie Bélanger) and Countering Violent Extremism and Terrorism: Assessing Domestic and International Strategies (2020).

Stéfanie von Hlatky is the founder of Women in International Security-Canada, and the Honorary Colonel of the Princess of Wales' Own Regiment.

Lister, Andrew

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Andrew Lister

Associate Professor

He/Him

PhD (UCLA); MA, BA (McGill)

Political Studies

Political Theory

Associate Professor

Research Interests

Distributive justice; reciprocity and egalitarianism; classical liberalism and libertarianism; public reason, ‘political’ liberalism, toleration and compromise.

Andrew Lister would be interested in supervising graduate students in the areas of distributive justice, democratic theory, public reason and political liberalism.

Brief Biography

Before coming to ŸĆĐăֱȄ, Andrew Lister taught at Concordia University and spent a year as FRQSC post-doctoral fellow at the University of Montreal's Centre de recherche en Ă©thique. He has been been a visitor at Oxford University's Center for the Study of Social Justice, and at the UCLouvain's Chaire Hoover d'Ă©thique Ă©conomique et sociale. He specializes in contemporary normative political theory, particularly related to democracy and distributive justice. His research has focused on two main themes: public reason, or neutrality in political decision-making, and reciprocity, in relation to egalitarianism. He also has an ongoing interest in the work of John Rawls, and its relationships with the work of others (for example, David Hume, Friedrich Hayek, and Frank Knight).

Rose, Jonathan

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Jonathan Rose

Professor, Head of Department

He/Him

PhD, MA (Queen's); BA (Toronto)

Political Studies

Canadian Politics

Professor | Head of Department

jonathan.rose@queensu.ca

Phone: (613) 533-6225 or (613) 533-6234

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, C330 (Faculty Office) & C320 (Head's Office)

Research Interests

Canadian Politics, mass media, political communication, political advertising, propaganda. More recently he has been interested in the practice of deliberative democracy and the demands such experiments make on citizens and governments.

Jonathan Rose would be interested in supervising graduate students in the areas of deliberative democracy, citizens’ assemblies, citizen engagement, public interest and regulatory bodies.

Brief Biography

Jonathan studied at University of Toronto and ŸĆĐăֱȄ where he received his Ph.D. He has taught at a number of places including the International Studies Centre (Herstmonceux, UK), Charles University in Prague, Bratislava, Slovakia and Kwansei Gakuin University in Osaka, Japan where he was the Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies. In 2008, Jonathan was a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Political Science and International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Jonathan is the author or co-author of several books. His first book Making Pictures in our Heads, Government Advertising in Canada (New York: Praeger Press, 2000) was the first book-length treatment of how governments advertise. He is the co-editor (with Douglas Brown) of Canada: the State of the Federation 1998. He is the lead author of The Art of Negotiation, a simulation exercise about federal-provincial diplomacy published by Broadview Press and translated into three languages. Along with colleagues André Blais, Patrick Fournier, Henk Van der Kolk and R. Kenneth Carty, When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizens' Assemblies on Electoral Reform (Oxford, 2011) was the beginning of a new research strand on citizens' assemblies. This book was the recipient of Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award, Canadian Politics Section of American Political Science Association. In 2021, Jonathan and a group of international colleagues wrote a book called (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021). The objective of this book was to enumerate the elements of deliberative mini-publics (including citizens' assemblies) and how they might fit into the policy process.

Jonathan's teaching is varied. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Canadian politics, political communication, federalism, the mass media, electoral systems, intergovernmental relations and public policy. In 2010, he received the Frank Knox Certificate of Commendation for Excellence in Teaching. In 2011, Jonathan was the recipient of W.J. Barnes Teaching Excellence Award.

Throughout his time as an academic, he has engaged with governments on a wide range of public policies. He has provided advice several times to the Auditor General of Canada on government advertising and sponsorship. For ten years, Jonathan was a member of the Advertising Review Board for the Auditor General of Ontario, a board that enforces legislation regulating government advertising in Ontario. In 2016, he co-authored a report for Elections Nova Scotia called

His interest in citizen engagement has led him in 2016 to be one of two expert panelists for the on the new $10 Viola Desmond bill. In 2018, the Department of Fisheries & Oceans asked him to help guide a national citizens’ panel that was to make recommendations around Marine Protected Areas.

Jonathan was the Academic lead of two of the country's three sub-national citizens' assemblies on electoral reform. He had the privilege of being the Academic Director of the and in 2024, the Academic Lead of the .

Teaching

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Service (2024/2025)

  • Head, Department of Political Studies
  • Budget Advisory Committee (Faculty of Arts & Science)
  • Adjunct Appointments Committee (Chair)
  • Appointments Committee (Chair)
  • Departmental Committee

Haklai, Oded

Oded Haklai

Oded Haklai

Professor | Director, Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity

He/Him

PhD (Toronto), MA (UBC), BA (Hebrew)

Political Studies

Comparative Politics, International Relations

Professor

Research Interests

Politics of nationalism and ethnicity; state and majority-minority relations; Middle East politics; politics of Israel; Palestinian-Israeli relations; settlers and territorial disputes

Oded Haklai would be interested in supervising graduate students in the areas of settlers (or population settlements) and territorial conflict.

Brief Biography

Oded Haklai has been teaching at Queen’s since 2004. His book Palestinian Ethnonationalism in Israel (2011) was awarded the Shapiro Award for best book in Israel Studies. In addition, he has published 3 co-edited volumes on the impact of democratization and ethnic minorities, the politics of settlers in contested lands, and Jewish Israeli – Palestinian relations, as well as over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Winner of several prestigious research grants, Haklai has held several visiting fellowships including at the Truman Institute at the Hebrew University, the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, and the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at the Elliott School, George Washington University. In 2015, he became the founding Director of the Laboratory for Ethnic Conflict Research at ŸĆĐăֱȄ.

Haklai’s main foci of doctoral supervisions are (1) populations settlements and territorial conflict, (2) the political mobilization of ethnic minorities, and (3) Israeli politics.

Teaching

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Service (2024/2025)

On sabbatical

Hanniman, Kyle

Kyle Hanniman

Kyle Hanniman

Associate Professor | Director, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations

He/Him

PhD (Wisconsin-Madison); BA (St. Thomas)

Political Studies

Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics

Associate Professor

Research Interests

Kyle’s research interests include comparative federalism, political economy, public debt, and Canadian politics. He is writing a book on fiscal federalism and government default risk. His commentary has appeared in the Globe and Mail and National Post.

Kyle Hanniman would be interested in supervising graduate students in the areas of Canadian, comparative, and fiscal federalism, and comparative political economy (especially in the areas of government bond markets, government debt, and fiscal and monetary policy).

Brief Biography

Kyle Hanniman is an associate professor of political studies. He completed his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his BA at St. Thomas University. Before coming to Queen’s, he was a policy associate at the University of Toronto’s Mowat Centre; a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto’s Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance; and a visiting researcher at the European University Institute.

Teaching

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Service (2024/2025)

On sabbatical

Haglund, David

David Haglund

David Haglund

Professor

He/Him

PhD (Johns Hopkins); BA (Ohio State)

Political Studies

International Relations

Professor

Research Interests

American foreign policy; transatlantic relations; Canada-US relations; Canadian foreign policy.

David Haglund would be interested in supervising graduate students in the areas of US foreign policy, Canada-US relations, and transatlantic security.

Brief Biography

After receiving his Ph.D. in International Relations in 1978 from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, in Washington, D.C., David Haglund assumed teaching and research positions at the University of British Columbia. In 1983 he came to ŸĆĐăֱȄ. From 1985 to 1995, and again from 1996 to 2002, he served as Director of the Queen’s Centre for International Relations (subsequently renamed the Queen’s Centre for International and Defence Policy). From 1992 to 1996 he served as Head of the Department of Political Studies, and as Acting Head for the 2015-16 academic year. He has held visiting professorships in France (at Sciences Po in Paris, at the French military academy – Saint Cyr-CoĂ«tquidan, and at l’UniversitĂ© Paris III/Sorbonne nouvelle); in Germany (at the UniversitĂ€t Bonn, and the Friedrich-Schiller-UniversitĂ€t Jena); in Ireland (at the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin); and in the US (at Syracuse University and Dartmouth College). From 2003 to 2012 he served as co-editor of the .

Teaching

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Service (2024/2025)

  • Departmental Committee