- Tari Ajadi (Political Science)
- Darin Barney (Art History & Communications)
- Jacob Blanc (History/ISID)
- Cristina Carnemolla (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
- Barry Eidlin (Sociology)
- Tania Islas Weinstein (Political Science)
- Katherine Lemons (Anthropology)
- Derek Nystrom (English)
- Isabel Pike (Sociology)
- William Clare Roberts (Political Science)
- Yves Winter (Political Science)
Tari Ajadi (Political Science)
Tari Ajadi is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research compares how Black activists in municipalities across Canada strategize to build durable coalitions towards justice. As a British-Nigerian immigrant to Canada, Tari’s goal is to produce research that supports and engages with the heterogenous experiences of Black communities across the country. He is a co-author of the Defunding the Police: Defining the Way Forward for HRM report released in January 2022. In addition, he is a frequent contributor and commentator on issues facing Black communities across Canada in both local and national media outlets. He is currently working on his first monograph, Between Uprisings: Black-led Community Organizations & The Fight for Self-Determination (McGill-Queen’s University Press, forthcoming). He holds a PhD and an MA from Dalhousie University in Canadian Politics.
Darin Barney (Art History & Communications)
Darin Barney is Grierson Chair in Communication Studies in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies and associate member of the Bieler School of Environment at McGill University, where he teaches courses and advises graduate students in critical theory, environmental communication, infrastructure studies and critical energy studies. His research concerns the politics of energy, infrastructure and environment – current projects include “Bottom of the Barrel: The Material Rehabilitation of Oil Sands Bitumen,” a study of the politics of emerging non-combustion uses for oil sands bitumen and Media Rurality an edited volume on the social, political and environmental impacts of energy and media infrastructures in rural settings (with Patrick Brodie, Duke University Press 2026). Many of his publications can be accessed here https://www.griersonresearchgroup.ca/darin-barney-publications.
Jacob Blanc (History/ISID)
Dr Jake Blanc is an associate professor with a joint appoint in history and international development studies. His research and teaching explores the history of human rights, memory, and borderlands in Latin America, with a particular focus on Brazil. He is the author of Before the Flood: the Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil (Duke University Press, 2019), The Prestes Column: an Interior History of Modern Brazil (Duke University Press, 2024) and Searching for Memory: Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming 2025). He is the recipient of major fellowships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Foundation.
Cristina Carnemolla (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
Cristina Carnemolla is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies with a specialization in nineteenth-century literature and cultural history at McGill University. She completed her Ph.D. in Romance studies from Duke University. Her research focuses on realist and naturalist novels with a comparative interest between the Italian, Spanish, Peruvian and Argentine traditions. Her current book project, tentatively entitled, Finding True South: The Reception of Naturalism in Southern Europe and Latin America, examines the emergence of narrative and rhetoric patterns within the context of the unclear and unstable meaning of race and nation-building discourses in these disparate geopolitical contexts. She is also among the founders of the GRC-CRG (Gramsci Research Collective-Collectif de Recherche Gramscienne), a research colletive inspired by the concept of praxis in Gramsci's thought that organizes an annual international conference on the Italian thinker. She has published several essays on the reception of naturalism in Italy and Spain in the late nineteenth-century, as well as on Gramsci, and ecocriticism.
Barry Eidlin (Sociology)
Barry Eidlin is Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University. He is a comparative historical sociologist interested in the study of class, politics, social movements, and social change. He is the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Other research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Politics & Society, Labor Studies Journal, Sociology Compass, and Labor History, among other venues. Writing for broader audiences has appeared in the Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, La Presse, Le Devoir, The Montreal Gazette, and Jacobin, among other venues, and his work commenting in various media outlets on labor politics and policy earned him the McGill University Changemaker Prize in 2024. Prior to embarking on his academic career, he spent several years as a union organizer, mainly with Teamsters for a Democratic Union.
Tania Islas Weinstein (Political Science)
Tania Islas Weinstein is assistant professor of political science at McGill University. Her research and teaching focus on how art and aesthetics shape the way people experience the world as politically significant. This work has been published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and the Journal of Latin American Studies, among others. Tania recently published an edited volume titled Beyond Mestizaje: Contemporary Debates on Race in Mexico which compiles recent debates on the ways in which Mexicans interpret the world in racial terms and denounce racism. Tania also frequently collaborates with artists, including on the first translation into Spanish of the poems by jazz musician Sun Ra.
Katherine Lemons (Anthropology)
Katherine Lemons is Associate Professor of Anthropology and an associate member of the Institute of Islamic Studies and the School of Religious Studies. Her research and teaching focus on law, religion and secularism, and kinship with a focus on Islamic legal practices in India and Canada. She is the author of the monograph Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the making of Indian Secularism (Cornell, 2019) and co-editor of Islam and the Institution of Marriage: Legal and Sociological Approaches (AMI Press, 2021). Her articles have been published in History of the Present, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, and Law and Society Review, among others. She is currently writing her second monograph—a materialist analysis of Islamic law in postcolonial India—and beginning a large comparative research program on Islamic legal practices in Canada. Her research has been supported by agencies including SSHRC, FRQSC, the American Association of Indian Studies.
Derek Nystrom (English)
Derek Nystrom is an associate professor of film and cultural studies in the Department of English. He is the author of Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men: Class in 1970s American Cinema (Oxford UP, 2009). He has published essays in Cinema Journal, Postmodern Culture, Radical History Review, Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere, on topics ranging from American films that depict the afterlife of the 2008 economic crash to the music of the proto-punk band The Stooges. He is also the co-author and -editor, with Kent Puckett, of Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: A Conversation with Richard Rorty (Prickly Pear, 1998; reprinted as Prickly Paradigm #3, 2002).
Isabel Pike (Sociology)
Isabel Pike is an assistant professor in McGill’s sociology department. Her research focuses on gender, development, and inequality, particularly in relation to knowledge and expertise. Her book project tracks the circulation of the contested narrative in Kenya that “the boy child has been forgotten.” Through media analysis, interviews, and ethnographic observation, the book examines how this narrative circulates in the media, how it resonates on the ground, and how NGOs and other policy actors put it into action. More broadly, the book is an exploration of how international development discourse shapes gender politics.
William Clare Roberts (Political Science)
William Clare Roberts is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University, in Montreal. He is the author of Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital (2107). Recently, his essays have appeared in Jacobin, Radical Philosophy, Specter, Analyse und Kritik, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, The CLR James Journal, Contemporary Political Theory, and European Journal of Political Theory. He is currently at work on two book manuscripts: The Radical Politics of Freedom: Domination, Ideology, and Self-Emancipation, and Universal Emancipation and History: The Making and Unmaking of ‘History From Below.’
Yves Winter (Political Science)
Yves Winter is Associate Professor of Political Science. He teaches history of political thought and contemporary social and political theory. His research interests include Machiavelli, the history of Marxism, critical theory (Frankfurt School, post-war French thought, post-Marxism), and contemporary debates on power, violence, and domination. He is the author of Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence (Cambridge, 2018) as well as articles on violence, sovereignty, and political order. Currently, he is working on two research projects: a book on the idea of the political imaginary in relation to the concepts of ideology and utopia; and a series of articles on the afterlives of colonialism.
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