International Development Studies - Faculty

The IDS Program Committee is responsible for the management of the program. Chaired by the Coordinator, the Executive Committee is responsible for long-term planning and development, scholarship allocation, curriculum, timetable, publications, graduate admissions and resource development. (Committee Members listed below).

The Coordinator represents International Development Studies to the Arts Council and other faculties at Saint Mary’s University. The Coordinator is responsible for faculty and adjunct faculty allocation, budget, and representing the program to outside agencies such as CIDA, IDRC, NGO’s and other educational institutions. The Coordinator is also the Graduate student advisor.

Dr. Anthony O’Malley
IDS Coordinator

Office: MS 200B

Tel: 491-6221

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Graduate Student Advising:

Graduate students requiring academic advice should consult with Dr. Anthony O'Malley.
Graduate students who have selected a thesis supervisor should consult with the supervisor for all academic matters relating to their thesis.

Undergraduate Student Advising:

The Undergraduate Student Advisor is responsible for undergraduate student inquiries concering the programme.

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The IDS Program Secretary is responsible for providing administrative support to the IDS Coordinator, Faculty and students.

Office: MS 201

Tel: 902-420-5768
Fax: 902-491-8622

2007-2008 Distinguished Vistiing Professor

Walden Bello, Ph.D. (Princeton University)

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Program Committee Members

Rosana Barbosa, Ph.D.
Brazilian History, Migration, Slavery, Nationalism, Brazil-Canada Relations
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Saturnino Borras, Ph.D. (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague)

Rural development, land tenure, rural social movements

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Alain Boutet
PhD (UQAM)
Communication for development; Social change; Environmental governance and education; Citizen empowerment

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John Chamard, Ph.D. (New England)
Small business, entrepreneurship, economic development strategies
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Tony Charles, Ph.D. (New Brunswick)
Natural resource management and development, fisheries management, aquaculture development, sustainable development, Latin America, Southeast Asia, China
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Anne Marie Dalton, Ph.D. (Catholic University of America)
Women and religion, gender and environment and culture
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Suzanne Dansereau, Ph.D. (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Labour, popular organizations, mining industry, Africa
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J. Colin Dodds, ex-officio, Ph.D. (Sheffield)
International finance and business, NAFTA, financial markets in the Pacific
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Marc Doucet, Ph.D. (Ottawa)
International Relations, International Political Economy, Global Social Movements
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Ryan Isakson, Ph.D. (Massachusetts)

Agrarian Development, Political Economy of the Environment, Food Security/Sovereignty
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James Morrison, Ph.D. (Ibadan)
South East Asia, West Africa
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Anthony H. O’Malley, Ph.D. (Dalhousie)
Latin America, Theory/Policy nexus, ideology and culture, politics of environment, community and structure
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Najma Sharif, Ph.D. (McMaster)
Development Economics
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Adam Spires, Ph.D. (University of Alberta)

Latin American literature, Dystopian studies, Chicano studies

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Evangelia Tastsoglou, Ph.D. (Boston)
Sociology of Development; Gender and Development, ethnicity and migration

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Henry Veltmeyer, Ph.D. (McMaster)
The theory and practice of development; globalization. Transnational corporations and the world economy; development and class; Latin America and the Caribbean
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Sheldon Wein, Ph.D. (Waterloo)
Ethics and justice
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IDS Resident/Adjunct Faculty

Krishna Ahooja-Patel, Ph.D. (University of Geneva)

(Adjunct)
Gender and Development; international organizations; labour and women
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David Black, B.A. (Hons.) (Trent University), M. A., Ph.D. (Dalhousie University)

(Adjunct)

African politics and development

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Saturnino Borras, Ph.D. (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague)

Rural development, land tenure, rural social movements

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Alain Boutet
PhD (UQAM)
Communication for development; Social change; Environmental governance and education; Citizen empowerment

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Tony Charles, Ph.D. (New Brunswick)
Natural resource management and development, fisheries management, aquaculture development, sustainable development, Latin America, Southeast Asia, China
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Linda Christiansen-Ruffman, Ph.D. (Columbia)
Feminist comparative methodologies, global feminism, gender relations and social policy

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Hari Das, Ph.D. (British Columbia)
Human resource management, organizational design and change, cross-cultural issues in management, India
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Raúl Delgado Wise, Ph.D. (Wharton School, Universidad de Pensilvania)

(Adjunct)

Migration and transnational population, Mexican/American immigration/migration

J. Colin Dodds, Ph.D. (Sheffield)
International finance and business, NAFTA, financial markets in the Pacific
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Patricia Fitzgerald, Ph.D. (Northern Colorado)

Women and business management; women and international developmen, Latin America
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Norman Girvan, Ph.D. (London, L.S.E.)

Development economics of the Caribbean basin, global economic structures

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Cristóbal Kay, PhD (Sussex)

(Adjunct, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague)

Development theory, Agrarian transformation, Latin America

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John Kirk, Ph.D. (U.B.C.)

(Adjunct)
Latin American politics, history and culture. Cuba-Canada relations

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Edwin MacLellan, Ph.D. (University of Waterloo)

(Adjunct)

Water resource management, development of sustainable resources

Jane Parpart, Ph.D. (Boston)

(Adjunct, Dalhousie University)
Southern Africa, Gender, Social history
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James Petras, Ph.D., M.A. (University of California at Berkeley)

(Adjunct, State University of New York at Binghamton & Saint Mary's University)

Latin American social movements, political economy of development

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James Sacouman, Ph.D. (Toronto)

(Adjunct, Acadia University)
Socio-economic development; social movements; Latin America and the Caribbean
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Sagebien, Julia A., Ph.D. (London)

(Adjunct, Dalhousie)

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Tim Shaw, Ph.D. (Princeton)
(Adjunct)
Human development/security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, new regionalisms, new security issues, peace-building.  Professor of Commonwealth Governance and Development and Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
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Juan Tellez, M.A. (Saint Mary’s)

(Adjunct)
Community Economic Development E-mail

Teivo Teivainen, Ph.D. (Helskinki)

(Adjunct)

Democratization and global transformation, dynamics of the World Social Forum, politcs of development

Shane Theunissen (Saint Mary's)

(Adjunct)

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Program Associates

The IDS program has a number of associates who make regular visits and contribute to the program:

Manfred Bienefeld
Professor of Public Administration, Carleton University, Ottawa
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Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, Université d'Ottawa
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Michael Clow
Professor of Sociology, St. Thomas University, New Brunswick
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Kari Levitt
Professor Economics, McGill University, Montreal
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Sam LanFranco
Professor of Economics, York University, North York, Ontario
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James Petras
Professor of Sociology, S.U.N.Y., Binghamton, N.Y.
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Tony Winson
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
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