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Brief Biography

Dr. Grazia (Grace) Scoppio is a Professor in the Department of Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC), is cross-appointed in the Queen’s University Department of Political Studies, and is a fellow at the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s. She has been selected as a Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Peace and War Studies at Norwich University, in Vermont, US. During her residency at Norwich, from January to May 2021, her research will focus on immigrants’ participation in the military from an international perspective. Dr. Scoppio was the Dean of Continuing Studies at RMC from 2017 to 2020 after having served as Associate Dean from 2013 to 2016. Between 2002 and 2013, she held appointments at the Canadian Defence Academy and the Canadian Forces Leadership Institute (CFLI).

Dr. Scoppio is an active member of various academic societies including the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, and the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada, where she has been part of the Executive since 2001.

From 2014 to 2017, she was the French Editor of the bilingual, peer-reviewed, international journal Comparative and International Education, jointly with the English Editor, Dr. Marianne Larsen from Western University. In 2013, the Commander of Military Personnel Command was awarded the CFLI, of which she was a member, a commendation in recognition of CFLI’s development and implementation of a series of leadership programs for Veterans Affairs Canada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In 2018, she was a member of the first Halifax Peace With Women Fellowship Selection Committee for the Halifax International Security Forum. Because of her expertise, Dr. Scoppio is often contacted to provide contributions to the media and to testify before Parliamentary committees.

Current Research and Projects

Dr. Scoppio’s current research is on immigrants’ participation in the military from an international perspective.

Research Interests

• Canadian foreign and defence policy
• International security relations
• American foreign and defence policy

Brief Biography

Dr. Sokolsky has taught at the Canadian Studies Center at SAIS, Dalhousie University and Duke University. He has been a visiting Canada-US Fulbright Scholar at Bridgewater State and has served as a consultant to several government offices including the Associate Assistant Deputy Minister of National Defence (Policy) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He has been a member of the Secretariat Working Group of the NATO/Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defence Academies and Security Studies Institutes.

Brief Biography

Christian Leuprecht (Ph.D., Queen’s) is a Class of 1965 Professor in Leadership, Department of Political Science and Economics, Royal Military College, and Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome. He is cross-appointed, Department of Political Studies and the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, where he is affiliated with both, the Queen’s Centre for International and Defence Policy and the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, and Adjunct Research Professor, Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University as well as the Centre for Crime Policy and Research, Flinders University.  A recipient of RMC’s Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research and an elected member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada, he is also Munk Senior Fellow in Security and Defence at the Macdonald Laurier Institute.  An expert in security and defence, political demography, comparative federalism, and multilevel governance, he has held visiting positions in North America, Europe, and Australia, and is regularly called as an expert witness to testify before committees of Parliament. He holds appointments to the board of two new research institutes funded by the German government, including the German Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies.

His publications have appeared in English, German, French, and Spanish and include 12 books and scores of articles that have appeared, inter alia, in the Florida State University Law Review (2019), Electoral Studies (2016), Government Information Quarterly (2016), Armed Forces and Society (2015),& Global Crime (2015, 2013), the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal (2014, Maureen Molot Prize for Best Article), Canadian Public Administration (2014), the Canadian Journal of Political Science (2012, 2003), Regional and Federal Studies (2012), and Terrorism and Political Violence (2018, 2017, 2011). His editorials appear regularly across Canada’s national newspapers and he is a frequent commentator in domestic and international media.

Leuprecht has been a Matthew Flinders Fellow at the Flinders University of South Australia (2017-2018), held a senior and visiting fellowships at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study (2016), the Helmut-Schmidt-University of the Bundeswehr (2016), Université Pierre-Mendès France (2015), the University of Augsburg in Germany (2011), the Swedish National Defence College (recurring) and the European Academy (recurring), and as the Bicentennial Visiting Associate Professor in Canadian Studies at Yale University (2009-2010). He is a research affiliate at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (since 2005), the Network for Terrorism, Security, and Society (since 2012), l’Université de Montréal’s International Centre for Comparative Criminology (since 2014), the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les relations Internationales du Canada et du Québec (since 2015), l’Observatoire sur la radicalization et l’extrémisme violent (since 2015), the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (since 2010), the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College (2003), the World Population Program at the International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis in Vienna, Austria (2002), and held doctoral (2001-2003) and postdoctoral (2003-2005) fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  He holds a Ph.D. from Queen’s University (2003), and graduate degrees in Political Science (1998) and French (1999) from the University of Toronto as well as the Institut d’Études Politiques at the Université Pierre-Mendès France in Grenoble (1997).

From 2015 to 2018 he held a Governor-in-Council appointment to the governing Council of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada where he also served on the Executive Committee and as Chair of the Committee on Discovery Research. He is also immediate past president (2014-2018) of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 01: Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution. Since joining RMCC in 2005, he has served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science and Economics. He has twice received the RMCC Commandant’s Commendation for Excellence in Service. A long-time proponent of experiential learning, Leuprecht has also been a finalist for RMCC’s Teaching Excellence Award and has received honourable mention for the Queen’s University Undergraduate Research Mentorship Award (2017). He is a member of the editorial boards of Armed Forces & Society, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Current Sociology’s Manuscript Series, and the Springer book series in Advances in Science and Technologies for Security Applications. Previously, he was associate editor of the Queen’s Policy Studies series published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Research and Publications

Projects in progress at the Comparative National Security and Defence Lab:

• Methodological innovations in the application of social network analysis to transnational crime, including illicit trade and trade fraud, and terrorism
• Innovative applications of data analytics of semi-structured heterogeneous datasets to security problems
• Transnational Criminal and Terrorist Movement and Flows
• Proceeds of Crime (Anti-Money Laundering), Terrorist Financing, and Tax Avoidance
• Cybersecurity and Cybercrime
• Signals Intelligence
• National Security and Intelligence Accountability, Review, and Oversight
• National and subregional Border Integrity, Security, Cultures and Cross-border cooperation, policy networks, and governance
• Governance and Operational innovations to policing, including Non-Core Policing and Alternative Service Delivery
• Diaspora influence over Canadian international policy
• Political Demography and Diversity in the Armed Forces
• The consequences of demographic and climate change on domestic conflict and stability operations
• Demographic and resource determinants of conflict and instability in Mali

Research Interests

Issues of democracy and diversity, in particular models of citizenship and social justice within multicultural societies, and animal rights.

Brief Biography

Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen’s University, where he has taught since 1998. He has published eight books and over 200 articles, which have been translated into 32 languages, and has received several awards. His books include (1990; second edition 2002),  (1995), which was awarded the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association, and the Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association,  (2007), which was awarded the North American Society for Social Philosophy’s 2007 Book Award, and most recently  (2011), co-authored with Sue Donaldson.

Christian Breede's Curriculum Vitae

Current Interests/Research:

• Social cohesion
• Foreign policy analysis, and
• Civil-military relations

Brief Biography

H. Christian Breede is an Associate Professor of Political Science at RMC and cross-appointed with Political Studies at Queen’s University. Christian holds a PhD in War Studies from RMC and has published on the topics of foreign and security policy with a research focus on societal cohesion and technology.   He has deployed experience with the Canadian Army in Haiti and Afghanistan.

Selected Publications

• (as editor) Culture and the Soldier: Identities, Values, and Norms in Military Engagements. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019
• (as co-edited with Stéfanie von Hlatky and Stéphanie Bélanger). Transhumanising War: Performance Enhancement and the implications for policy, society, and the soldier, Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019
• The Idea of Failed States: Community, Society, Nation, and Patterns of Cohesion, London: Routledge, 2017.
• (as co-edited with Stéfanie von Hlatky). Going to War? Trends in Military Intervention, Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016
•  “Special (Peace) Operations: Optimizing SOF for UN Missions” International Journal 73(2) 2018: 221-240
• “Defining Success: Canada in Afghanistan 2006-2011” American Review of Canadian Studies 44(4) 2014: 483-501

Kathy Brock Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

public policy and the voluntary sector; Canadian government and politics; the constitution and the judiciary; federalism; aboriginal self-government; public law; women and politics; governing institutions

Brief Biography

Dr. Kathy L. Brock is a Professor, at the School of Policy Studies and cross-appointed to the Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University, current Past-President of the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration, and past National Research Chair for the Institute of Programs in Public Administration.

She has published books, academic articles, and reports on nonprofit and voluntary organizations, Canadian and comparative politics and government, federalism and constitutional matters, and Aboriginal governance and issues. She is currently working on a manuscript on the operation of the Canadian federal system, and articles on the views of DMs and CAOs regarding the current state of the public service medically assisted dying (suicide) policy, public sector ethics, Aboriginal policy, and Indigenous governance. She has commenced a new study called “Riding the Trump-Trudeau Wave”.

Active in public affairs, she has served as a nonpartisan advisor to the federal. provincial and territorial governments, political parties, an Aboriginal organization, nonprofit organizations, and on a number of national and local boards, including her current work with the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration, Research Committee of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, and Board member of the Limestone Learning Foundation. She is a frequent commentator in the national and local media on Canadian public affairs.

A dedicated professor, she received the 2008 Pierre De Celles IPAC Award for Teaching Excellence in Public Administration and the 2009 Frank Knox Award (Queen’s University) for Teaching Excellence (Queen’s).

Keith Banting Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Public policy, especially social policy, in Canada and OECD countries; ethnic diversity, multiculturalism, social integration, and public policy; federalism and public policy in Canada and other Western countries

Brief Biography

Keith Banting is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Studies and Stauffer Dunning Fellow in the School of Policy Studies. His research interests focus on public policy in Canada and other contemporary democracies. He has had a long-standing interest in the politics of social policy and has extended this research to include ethnic diversity, immigration, and multiculturalism. He is the author and editor of over twenty books and the author or co-author of a long list of articles and book chapters. His publications have been translated into seven languages.

Professor Banting earned his BA (Hon) from Queen’s University and his doctorate from the University of Oxford. He taught for thirteen years at the University of British Columbia, before returning to Queen’s. In addition, he has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics, the Brookings Institution, Harvard University, Oxford University, the European University Institute, University of Melbourne, Stockholm University, and the University of California (Berkeley). In 2016, he was the Willy Brandt Guest Professor at Malmö University in Sweden.

In 2004, Professor Banting was appointed as a member of the Order of Canada. In 2012, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, was awarded an honorary doctorate by Stockholm University, and received a Queen Elizabeth II, Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 2016, he received the Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award in Canadian Politics from the Canadian Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. In 2018, he received a Distinguished Service Award from Queen’s University.

Selected Publications

The Strains of Commitment: The Political Sources of Solidarity in Diverse Societies. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), xiv, 452pp. Co-edited with Will Kymlicka.

The Global Promise of Federalism, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2013), vii, 310pp. Co-edited with Grace Skogstad, David Cameron and Martin Papillon.

Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, forthcoming 2013). Edited with John Myles.

Belonging? Diversity, Recognition and Shared Citizenship in Canada. (Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2007). Edited with Thomas Courchene and Leslie Seidle.

Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Edited with Will Kymlicka.

From the Queen's Gazette of Tuesday, October 18, 2018:

Queen’s University is remembering the accomplishments and contributions of C.E.S. (Ned) Franks, a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Studies and the School of Physical and Health Education.

Dr. Franks taught at Queen’s for 35 years and was a leading expert on Canada’s parliamentary system. He died Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. He was 81.

“Queen’s and Canada have lost a great political scientist in Ned Franks. He had a long career which included mentoring many students who have gone on to distinguished careers in academia, the public service, journalism, and politics,” says Principal and Vice-Chancellor Daniel Woolf.”  An expert on Canada’s parliamentary system he served as a regular adviser to government and media. He also participated in Queen’s governance, most recently on the former Campus Planning and Development Committee.”

Born in Toronto, Dr. Franks attended Upper Canada College, earned his BA (1959) and MA (1965) from Queen’s, and his DPhil from Oxford.

He returned to Queen’s as an assistant professor in 1967 after working for several years with the Government of Saskatchewan, including a stint as clerk assistant of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly.

Throughout his career at Queen’s, Dr. Franks’ influence and reputation was felt well beyond the university and his advice and insight were regularly sought out by fellow scholars, governments, and media.

“He was a kind of larger-than-life figure both here in the department but also in the scholarly community and beyond. His intellectual breadth was incredibly broad and deep. He had a passion for knowledge,” says Jonathan Rose, an associate professor in Political Studies. “I don’t know any other political scientist who has written respected books on canoeing and Parliament. His sense of wonderment about things beyond and outside of the narrow discipline of political studies was incredibly refreshing and demonstrated a love of learning about the world.”

Dr. Franks was Dr. Rose’s supervisor during his master’s studies at Queen’s and later became his colleague when he joined the Department of Political Studies. He was strongly influenced by Dr. Franks’ sense of rigour and the importance of precision in scholarship.

“Here was an academic who continued the best tradition of Queen’s, which is to make connections between policy making and scholarship,” Dr. Rose says. “I think one of the reasons Queen’s politics is respected in Ottawa is because of this close connection and regular advice that scholars like Ned would provide governments of all political stripes.”

In addition to more than 100 articles and chapters in books, Dr. Franks wrote or edited 14 books and monographs, including The Parliament of Canada, The Canoe and White Water, and Dissent and the State. His work included explorations into public administration, government accountability, parliamentary government in Canada, aboriginal self-government, canoeing, sport and politics, Canada's North, issues related to nuclear energy, and politics in India.

He also wrote numerous influential op-ed pieces for newspapers and magazines and was asked by national and international media for his insight on important issues on the Canadian political agenda. 

In 2002, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and, in 2004, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society awarded him its 75th Anniversary Medallion.

In 2007 the Queen’s University bestowed its Distinguished Service Award upon Dr. Franks in recognition of his four decades of leadership and work on campus planning, including playing a key role in the planning and construction of Mackintosh-Corry Hall as well as a major renovation and expansion program for the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

“With gentle humor, positive reinforcement and comprehensive knowledge you have presided and offered wise counsel as the university sought to improve planning activities for the practice of commissioning buildings, and procedures for selecting leading architects and adopting competitive processes,” a section of the award citation reads. “The results may be found in the record of award-winning structures renewing one of Canada’s historic institutions.”

Dr. Franks also played the roles of an adviser on student life matters and a supporter of student self-government, serving as a mentor to generations of student leaders in the Alma Mater Society, and twice was appointed as honorary president.

Brief Biography

From 1969 to 2003, George Perlin was a member of the Department teaching courses on Canadian and Comparative politics. From 2003 to 2013 he taught courses on international democratic development and Canadian democracy in the School of Policy Studies.  

He founded and was Director of the then Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen's (now known as the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity) from 1993 to 2002.

From 2003 to 2006 Perlin was a Fellow at the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) where he edited and contributed to a series of papers on Canada's policy for assistance to democratic development.  He has been a consultant on democracy assistance policy to agencies of the Canadian government and to the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

Perlin has also had experience as a practitioner in the delivery of democracy assistance as director of two CIDA-funded projects to establish a program of education in the study of democracy for the universities, technical colleges, and secondary schools of Ukraine.  In collaboration with Kyiv National Pedagogical University, the projects established courses on democracy in 250 universities and technical colleges and an estimated 20,000 high schools.

He co-authored and edited with a group of Ukrainian scholars three editions of a university textbook,   on the fundamentals of democracy (Osnovii Demokrati),  and was series editor for 15 supplementary texts, co-authoring five. He has also written extensively about Canadian politics.

In November 2008, he was elected as an international member of Ukraine's National Academy of Pedagogical Science.

Born in Oxbow, Saskatchewan on June 22, 1928, Stewart Fyfe died peacefully at Briargate Retirement Residence in Amherstview, Ontario on January 30, 2019. 

Stewart graduated with a BA and MA from Queen's and a PhD from Manchester University. Proud of his Scottish heritage and prairie roots, his life was dedicated to 'making a difference'. As a dedicated member of the ���˴�Ƭ community for over six decades, he taught generations of students about local government, created professional development programs for municipal staff, and provided counseling for students. Working as a consultant and an educator, his work took him to Europe and Russia and across Canada from Newfoundland to Whitehorse. He was heavily involved in local government reform in Ontario, including chairing the Commission which led to the formation of the Waterloo Region.

In Kingston, he was instrumental in the formation of the Art Collection Society and the City's Planning Department, which assisted with neighbourhood improvement projects and the City's early efforts in heritage conservation which became the foundation of the Ontario Heritage Act. For many years he was a member and Chair of Kingston's Planning Committee and the Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority. 

Stewart was a voracious reader, avid Gaels football fan and lover of cottage life with his dear family at Lake Sir John and Eagle Lake.