Researchers at the JMCM

Magdalena Dembińska
 (UdeM)

magdalena.dembinska@umontreal.ca

Office: Pavillon Lionel-Groulx local C-4046

Magdalena Dembińska is a full professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Montreal and academic director of the Jean Monnet BEAR (“Between the EU and Russia”) Network. Her research and publications in comparative politics focus on ethnic politics and conflict, state and nation building, nationalism and diversity in Eurasia and Central Europe. Funded by CRSH, her recent research focuses on the de facto states of Abkhazia (Georgia) and Transnistria (Moldova), the policies of the parent states towards their external minorities (Poland and Poles in Transnistria and Donbass), as well as on European-Russian relations at the border (Moldova, Estonia, Kaliningrad). Author of two monographs,« La fabrique des Etats de facto. Ni guerre ni paix » (PUM 2021) and « Vivre ensemble dans la diversité culturelle. Développements en Europe centrale et orientale après 1989 » (PUR 2012), she publishes in journals such as International Studies Review, Comparative Political Studies Acta Politica, Nations and Nationalism, Nationalities Papers, East European Politics and Societies, East European Politics or Eurasian Geography and Economics.

Terri Givens
 (McGill)

terri.givens@mcgill.ca

Office: 855 Sherbrooke St. W. Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7, Leacock 317

Terri Givens is a Professor of Political Science at McGill University. She has held leadership positions as Vice Provost at the University of Texas at Austin and Provost of Menlo College (first African American and woman); as well as professorships at University of Texas at Austin, and University of Washington. She was the founding director at the Center for European Studies at the University of Texas and led the university’s efforts in Mexico and Latin America as Vice Provost for International Activities as well as curriculum development. Terri is the author/editor of books and articles on immigration policy, European politics and right-wing politics. Her most recent published books are “Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides,” from Policy Press and “The Roots of Racism: The Politics of White Supremacy in the US and Europe” published by Bristol University Press.

Ahmed Hamila
 (UdeM) 

ahmed.hamila[at]umontreal.ca

Office: 3150 Jean-Brillant Street, Lionel Groulx Pavilion, room C-5076

Ahmed Hamila is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the Université de Montréal. A specialist in international migration and gender/sexuality issues, his current work focuses on asylum policies related to sexual orientation and gender identity, access to health care for vulnerable migrant populations, and transnational solidarities. He has been awarded four prizes for his doctoral work, including the prize for the best thesis in social sciences from the University of Montreal and the Xavier Mabille prize for the best thesis from the Belgian Political Science Association. He has been a visiting scholar at several universities including the University of Victoria, Sciences Po Paris and the University of Warwick, as well as a Queen Elisabeth Scholar and Wiener-Anspach fellow at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.

Juliet Johnson
 (McGill)

juliet.johnson[at]mcgill.ca
Office: 855, rue Sherbrooke, room: Leacock 509

Juliet Johnson is Professor of Political Science at McGill University and director of the academic network BEAR. Her research focuses on money and banking in post-communist Europe and on post-communist memory politics. She is the author of Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World (Cornell 2016) and A Fistful of Rubles: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Banking System (Cornell 2000), as well as of articles in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, and Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), among others. She was Lead Editor of RIPE from 2011-14 and Co-Editor from 2007-10, and sits on RIPE’s International Advisory Board. In fall 2014, she designed and taught the first interdisciplinary graduate seminar organized around the EUCE speaker series, the JMCM predecessor. At McGill she has served on the Board of Governors and as Associate Dean for the Faculty of Arts, and won the Faculty’s Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching. She received her PhD from Princeton University.

Frédéric Mérand
 (UdeM)

frederic.merand[at]umontreal.ca
Office: Pavillon Lionel-Groulx room C-4012

Frédéric Mérand (PhD, Berkeley) is Scientific Director of CÉRIUM and Professor of Political Science at the Université de Montréal. He is a member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada, a former member of the executive committee of the European Union Studies Association, and a visiting professor at McGill University, the University of Toronto, LUISS, and Sciences Po Paris. He is a specialist in the sociology of international relations, global security, and the European political economy. His work has appeared in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Government and Public Policy, European Politics, Comparative European Politics, Cooperation and Conflict and the Canadian Journal of Political Science. His recent publications include Coping with Geopolitical Decline (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020), L’analyse du risque politique (with Adib Bencherif, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2021) and Un sociologue à la Commission européenne (Presses de Sciences Po, 2021).

Christine Rothmayr

 (UdeM)

christine.rothmayr.allison[at]umontreal.ca

Office: Pavillon Lionel-Groulx. room C-4029

Christine Rothmayr, Professor and former Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Montreal, is interested in the relationship between courts and politics, including legal mobilization and the impact of judicial decisions on the formulation and implementation of public policy in North America and Europe.

Luca Sollai

(UdeM)

luca.sollai@umontreal.ca

Office: 3744 rue Jean Brillant, 5th floor, room 530-27

Luca Sollai is a lecturer in History and International Studies at the University of Montreal, and a research fellow on Europe at the Center for International Studies and Research at the University of Montreal (CÉRIUM). His research focuses on 20th-century Italy (communism and fascism) and France, the Cold War, the Italian community in Montreal, and Italian and European news.

Alex Tipei

 (UdeM)

alex.tipei@umontreal.ca

Office: Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, room C-6114

A transnational historian of Europe, Alex Tipei’s research focuses on networks of political and intellectual elites that connected Southeastern Europe (notably the lands that make up present-day Romania and Greece) and France in the early nineteenth century. She is likewise interested in the place of these dynamics in a global context. She received her PhD from Indiana University and held research and teaching positions at the University of Illinois, Princeton University, McGill University, and the University of Bucharest before coming to UdeM.

Luna Vives
 (UdeM)