The Advanced Institute for Globalization and Culture is pleased to announce its inaugural Advisory Council:

Stephen High, CRC in Public History, Department of History, Concordia University. (or see here)

High's publications include Base Colonies in the Western Hemisphere, 1940-67 (2009), Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization (2007), and Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt (2003).

Imre Szeman, CRC Cultural Studies/ Professor English and Film Studies, University of Alberta.

Szeman’s publications include Zones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism and the Nation (2003), and co-authored works such as of Popular Culture: A User’s Guide (2004, 2nd. ed. 2009), Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader (2009), and Global-Local Consumption (2009). 

 
Dan Yon, Associate Professor of Anthropology & Education, York University. (or see here)

Yon’s publications include Elusive Culture: Schooling, Race, and Identity in Global Times (2003), and articles such as “Educational Ethnography: Key Themes and Highlights” in the Annual Review of Anthropology, and “Urban Portraits of Youth: On the Problem of Knowing Culture and Identity in Intercultural Studies” at the Journal of Intercultural Studies. For his work on film, visit www.saw-productions.com/index.cfm?pg=hundredMen.crew.

Diana Brydon, CRC in Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba.

Brydon’s publications include Decolonizing Fictions (1993, with Helen Tiffin), Timothy Findley (1998), and such edited works as Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Theory (2000) and Renegotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts (2010, with William Coleman), and Shakespeare in Canada: 'A World Elsewhere'? (2002, with Irena R. Makaryk).  

Veronica Schild, Associate Professor of Political Science, Graduate Director of Centre for Theory and Criticism, The University of Western Ontario.

Schild’s publications include Contradictions of Emancipation: The Women's Movement, Culture, and the State in Contemporary Chile (forthcoming), and such articles as “Transnational Links in the Making of Latin American Feminisms: A View from the Margins,” in Emigre Feminism (1999), and “Empowering Consumer Citizens or Governing Poor Female Subjects? The Institutionalization of ‘Self-Development’ in the Chilean Social Policy Field” in the Journal of Consumer Culture (2007).

Mark Kingwell, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto.  (or see here)

Kingwell’s publications include A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism (1995), Dreams of Millennium: Report from a Culture on the Brink (1997), Nearest Thing to Heaven: The Empire State Building and American Dreams (2006), Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City (2008), Glenn Gould (2009), and edited works such as Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space (2009, with Patrick Turmel).  

Duncan Ivison, University of Sydney.

Ivison’s publications include The Self at Liberty: Political Argument and the Arts of Government (1997), Postcolonial Liberalism (2002), Rights (2008), and edited works that include The Ashgate Research Companion to Multiculturalism (forthcoming 2010). 

Justin Edwards, School of English, Bangor University.

Edwards’ publications include Postcolonial Literature (2008), Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature (2005), Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic (2003), Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature, 1840-1930 (2001), and co-edited works such as Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities (2005, with Douglas Ivison).  

Henry Giroux, Global Television Network Chair in Communication Studies, McMaster University. (or see here)

Giroux’s publications include Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability? (2009), Against the Terror of Neoliberalism: Politics Beyond the Age of Greed (2008), The Giroux Reader (2006), Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism: Global Uncertainty and the Challenge of the New Media (2006), Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education (2005), The Terror of Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism and the Eclipse of Democracy (2004), and many more.   

Hanna Snellman, Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Snellman’s publications include The Road Taken: Narratives from Lapland (2005), Khants’ Time (2001), and edited works such as Passages Westward (2006).  

Franca Iacovetta, Department of History, University of Toronto. (or see here)

Iacovetta’s publications include Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold Ward Canada (Toronto, 2006) and Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto (1992), and edited works such as Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialized Women in Canadian History (2003, with M. Epp and F. Swyripa), Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italy’s Workers of the World (2002, with D. Gabaccia), and Enemies Within: Italian and Other Wartime Internments in Canada and Beyond (2000, with R. Perin and A. Principe). 

George E. Marcus, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Rice University, and Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Irvine. 

Marcus’s publications include Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary (2008, with Paul Rabinow and Tobias Rees), The Sentimental Citizen: Emotion in Democratic Politics (2002), Anthropology as Cultural Critique (1999, with Michael M. J. Fischer), Ethnography through Thick and Thin (1998), and edited works including Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be (2009, with James D. Faubion and Michael M. J. Fischer) and Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (1986, with James Clifford).