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Research Interests

Badriyya's research focuses on diverse issues of sustainable international development such as gender, health, post-conflict reconstruction, and digital inclusion with non-profit and non-governmental organizations in Canada, West, and South Africa.

Biography

Badriyya is an academic and practitioner of international politics and international development. Building on her academic background, she has worked on diverse issues of sustainable international development such as gender, health, post-conflict reconstruction, and digital inclusion with non-profit and non-governmental organizations in Canada, West, and South Africa. This work is evidence-based.

SSHRC recipient for her research, her dissertation focuses on intersections between Internet governance and digital taxation.

Teaching Experience

• POLS 482 - Seminar in Public Policy (Winter 2023)

Research Interests

Michael's research interests intersect international relations and security, science and technology policy, and Canadian politics. He is the author of Quantum Social Theory for Critical International Relations Theorists (Palgrave, 2021) and Weak Utopianism in Education (Routledge, 2024), more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and numerous book reviews and chapters, receiving more than 2,000 citations. He also has an active research profile in the scholarship of teaching and learning, focusing on issues of active learning, classroom design, and assessment and evaluation. His work can be found .

Biography

Michael P. A. Murphy is the director of the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University and president of the Canadian region of the International Studies Association. He is an Editor at Security Dialogue and a Consulting Editor at College Teaching. He is a former Digital Policy Hub fellow at Centre for International Governance Innovation. At Queen’s, Michael has held appointments as the Buchanan Postdoctoral Fellow in Canadian Democracy, a Mathews Fellow in Public Policy, and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow. Michael is an international award-winning educator with a range of teaching experience in international relations, Canadian politics, political theory and public administration. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa, where his dissertation won the 2022 Joseph De Koninck Thesis Prize for making an outstanding contribution to interdisciplinary knowledge.

Teaching

• POLS 463 - International Relations Theory (Winter 2024)
• ASCX400 - Edward Burtynsky, Standing Whale Artist Group (co-instructor)
• Honours Seminar in International Relations, University of Ottawa (x3)
• Modern Political Thought, Part II, University of Ottawa

Research Interests

Global Political Economy; Comparative Political Economy; Critical Security Studies; Migration Studies; Urban Geography; Refugees; Housing; Homelessness; Public Policy

Biography

Jana S. Walkowski is a doctoral candidate and CMHC-SSHRC Housing Research Scholar in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, specializing in international relations (international political economy) and comparative politics. Her overarching research interests are driven by two central questions: 1) how are mobility rights, citizenship rights and critical material resources distributed in society? And (2) who benefits from existing modes of governing global displacement? She is particularly interested in the interconnections between urban, national, regional and global relations of power that shape dominant configurations of migration governance in the context of what many IPE scholars have labelled a poly-crisis. These interests are reflected in her dissertation research which interrogates the political economy of governing refugee shelter across two urban contexts: Toronto, Canada and Berlin, Germany. Jana holds a master’s degree in political science from McGill University and a bachelor’s degree in Global Development Studies from Queen’s University. Outside her research you can find her training for triathlons and local running events, walking by the waterfront or reading her favourite books in local coffee shops.

Awards

• CMHC-SSHRC Housing Research Doctoral Scholarship Award (2026-2027)
• SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (2025-2026)
• DAAD German Studies Grant (2025)
• Sir Edward Peacock Research Award, (2025, 2026)
• W.C. Good Memorial Fellowship (2024)
• Dean’s Fieldwork Grant, (2024)
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25).
• SHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master's (2020-2021)

Teaching Experience

Teaching Fellow

• POLS 590 - Undergraduate Honours Thesis (Fall 2025, Winter 2026)

Teaching Assistant

• POLS 242 - Comparative Politics: Contemporary regimes (Winter 2024)
• POLS 384 - Strategies of Political Research (Fall 2023, Fall 2022)
• POLS 262 - International Political Economy (Winter 2023)
• DEVS 101 - Introduction to International Development (Fall 2022)
• POLS 110 - Introduction to Politics and Government (Fall 2021, Winter 2021)

Biography

Sean Tracy is a PhD candidate specializing in Political Theory and Comparative Politics. His primary research interests are in global justice, especially issues involving territorial rights (e.g., collective self-determination, secession, territorial autonomy...), resolving ethnic and sectarian conflict, and international law. His other research interests are wide-ranging and include Just War Theory, issues of liberal toleration and state justification and legitimacy, and the debate between cosmopolitanism and liberal nationalism.

Teaching Experience

• POLS 241 - Comparative Politics - Transformations
• POLS 359 - Issues in Political Theory
• POLS 250 - History of Political Thought
• PHIL 101 - Introduction to Philosophy (Boğaziçi University)
• PHIL 105 - Informal Logic/Critical Thinking (Boğaziçi University)
• PHIL 106 - Philosophical Texts (writing composition) (Boğaziçi University)
• PHIL 112 - Intro to Modern Philosophy (Boğaziçi University)