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Senior Lecturer, Security & Policy Institute
Lecturer

Contact information:

Cell: 202-251-6636
E-mail: kbokhari@uottawa.ca
Website

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Cell Telephone

Research information:

Kamran Bokhari teaches courses on national security and foreign policy to Canadian military, intelligence and security officials at the University of Ottawa and is a consultant to The World Bank Group. Bokhari is also the former Advisor on Middle Eastern and South Asian Affairs (2003-15) to the U.S. geopolitical intelligence firm, Stratfor. He is the author of Political Islam in the Age of Democratization (Palgrave Macmillan, December 18, 2013) and is working on a second book on how to ideologically combat the self-styled Islamic State and its so-called caliphate, which is due to publish in 2016. He also has contributed chapters to edited volumes such as the Oxford Handbook on Islam & Politics (2013) & Debating Moderate Islam: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West (2007). Bokhari has delivered briefings to various American, Canadian and British government departments. Over the years he has published thousands of analytical/theoretical/op-ed articles and has presented research papers in various international academic and policy forums. He has given hundreds of interviews to leading global media outlets, including: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Reuters, Associated Press, AFP, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, Foreign Policy, NPR, Forbes, The Christian Science Monitor, National Journal, Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, CBC, CTV, BBC, Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, CNN-Turk, Pakistan's GEO TV, India's Hindustan Times, Xinhua and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He has many years of teaching experience at US & UK universities. Based in Toronto, Bokhari is a PhD candidate in the department of politics and international relations at London's University of Westminster where he is writing his thesis 'Moderation Among Salafists and Jihadists' with Egypt's Nour Party & Afghanistan's Taliban movement as his case studies. He tweets at @KamranBokhari. Areas of Expertise • Geopolitics of the Muslim World • Middle East • South Asia • Islamism/Jihadism • Geo-sectarianism • Democratization • Civil-Military Relations • Counterterrorism/Deradicalization • Countering Violent Extremism • Islamist/Muslim Moderation • Foreign Policy • Security/Intelligence Affairs • Comparative Political Systems

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Afghanistan
• Democracy and democratization
• Foreign Policy
• Geopolitics
• India
• International terrorism
• Middle East
• National policy
• Policy
• Political ideology
• Political violence
• Religion
• Sécularisation
• State violence
• Terrorism
• Transnationalism
• Violence

Language preference:

English only

Assistant professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

Contact information:

Office: 613-582-5800 x2426
E-mail: emily.wills@uottawa.ca
Website

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Office Telephone

Research information:

My geographical areas of expertise are the United States and the Arab Middle East, particularly Lebanon, Palestine/Israel, Egypt, and Kuwait. My thematic areas of expertise are social movements, migrants and migration, refugees, and community organizing and NGOs. I am also able to comment on social issues more broadly in my countries of interest.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Borders
• Diasporas and Remittances
• Feminist politics and theory
• Globalization
• Immigration
• Immigration services
• Middle East
• Not-for-profit organizations
• Transnationalism

Language preference:

English only

Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
Geography

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (1046)
E-mail: lveronis@uottawa.ca
Website

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

My research examines issues of transnationalism, migration, identity, and citizenship in Canadian cities with a focus on immigrant settlement, community organizing, migrant and minority groups, and questions of belonging in and through space. My recent projects investigate the everyday experiences of minority groups in the transborder city of Ottawa-Gatineau, the production and consumption of multicultural media, and the role of environmental factors in international migration to Canada.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Citizens
• Cultural belonging
• Cultural identity
• Environmental migration
• Globalization
• Immigration
• Immigration services
• Transnationalism

Language preference:

English and French , Spanish

Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (2086)
Cell: 613-805-9911
Home: 613-805-9911
E-mail: svucetic@uottawa.ca
Website

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

My research interests involve American and Canadian foreign and defence policy and international security.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Balkans
• British history
• Colonization
• Foreign Policy
• Geopolitics
• International relations
• Liberalism
• Political ideology
• Political ideology
• Race
• Racism
• Research methods
• Transnationalism
• Wars

Language preference:

English and French , German; Bosnian; Croatian; Montenegrin; Serbian.