ABOUT ME
My work addresses the history of political thought, international affairs, issues concerning representation, democratic politics, and the law in Canada and abroad. I research and teach to help shape the kind of local and global community of engaged citizens where I would like to be a co-citizen.
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In my teaching, I refuse to accept that ordinary individuals or students are ignorant and require an expert to impart the ultimate truth. I embrace an experiential teaching method, which effectively enables the students and me to share the responsibility for their learning. In more than thirty distinct courses, together with the students, we raised perennial questions in political thought and pressing questions of the day; at times taking an epistemic, visceral, legal, political, discoursive angle, be the question on refugees, Indigenous people, elected official, or ordinary citizens.
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My research complements my teaching interests, especially in arriving at better understanding of equality, boundaries of exclusion/inclusion, and the management of differences. Some of my research on democratic practices, equality, citizenship, and protest movements appears in the Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies, Philosophy and Social Criticism, International Studies Review, and Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory.
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Most of the photos on the site, by the way, are the work of yours truly. Hope you like them.