Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay - University of Victoria

Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay 

Vice-President Academic and Provost 

Professor, Political Science 

University of Victoria 

Victoria, BC 

Tel. 250 721 7626 

provost@uvic.ca 

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS 

Vice-President Academic and Provost, University of Victoria, January 2011- 

Vice President (Academic) Pro Tempore, Memorial University, July 2009-October 2010 

Dean, Faculty of Arts, Memorial University, 2006-June 2009 

Chair, Political Science Department, Concordia, 1998-2005 

Graduate Program Director, Political Science Department, Concordia, 1993-1995, 1996-1998 

EMPLOYMENT 

Professor, Political Science, University of Victoria, January 2011 

Professor, Political Science, Memorial University, 2006 - December 2010 

Professor, Political Science, Concordia, 2002- 2006 August 

Associate Professor, Political Science, Concordia, 1995 – 2002 

Assistant Professor, Political Science, Concordia, 1989 – 1995 

Lecturer, Political Science, Concordia, 1981 –1989 

Lecturer, Humanities, Vanier College, 1989 

ACADEMIC DEGREES 

Ph.D. Political Science, University of Chicago, 1990 

M.A. Political Science, University of Chicago, 1975 

M. Phil, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1972 

MA, University of Kashmir, 1971 (First Class First) 

BA (Hons.) University of Kashmir 1968 (First Class First) 

Graduate Diploma in Management, McGill University, 1989 

APPOINTMENTS TO EDITORIAL BOARDS 

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 

Taylor and Francis Publishers, 2004- 

Member, Editorial Board, PS Political Science, American Political Science Association, USA, 

2003-2006.


Member, Editorial Board, Pacific Affairs, UBC, Canada, 2004- 2009 

Member, Editorial Consultative Board Board, International Encyclopedia of Political Science, 

Editors: Bob Jarvis, George Kurian, 2005- 2009 

Member, Editorial Board, Malviya Peace Institute, Benares Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 

2002- 

Member, Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, UQAM, Montreal, 1998-2000. 

APPOINTMENTS TO PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS 

President, Canadian Political Science Association, 2011-2012. 

President Elect, Canadian Political Science Association, 2010-2011. 

SSHRC Leader (Memorial University), The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council 

of Canada, 2008-2011. 

Chair and Member, SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships and CGS Scholarships Selection Committee 

on Public and Private Policy Studies, 2008, 2009, 2010. 

Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2009- 

2011 

Member, Board of Directors, Atlantic Metropolis Centre, Halifax, 2007–2010 

Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Council of Area Studies of Learned Societies (including 

Canadian Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, African Studies and the Middle Eastern 

Studies), 2007 -09. 

President, Canadian Association for Asian Studies. 2005 -2007. 

Member, Board of Directors, and past President, Canadian Council of Area Studies of Learned 

Societies (including Canadian Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, African Studies and the 

Middle Eastern Studies), 2005-2007. 

President, Canadian Council of Area Studies of Learned Societies (including Canadian Asian 

Studies, Latin American Studies, African Studies and the Middle Eastern Studies), 2002-2005. 

Member, Canadian Political Science Association Jill Vickers Prize Committee, 2004-2006. 

Executive Committee Member, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, 2001-2002. 

Member, Canadian Political Science Association, Nominating Committee, 2001-2002. 

-2-


Member, Executive Committee, Canadian Area Studies Association, 2000-2005. 

Chair, India Studies Committee, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Calgary. 1998-2001. 

Concordia Director on the Board of Directors of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Calgary, 

1997-99. 

Member, Executive Committee, Canadian Association for Asian Studies, 1997-2005. 

Member, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Research Network, 1997-present. 

AWARDS 

Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, Concordia University, 2002. 

RESEARCH PROFILE 

Publications: 

Refereed Articles, Chapters in Books and Encyclopedia Entries 

2011. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay and Amanda Bittner “Newfoundland and Labrador: Creating 

Change in the Twenty-First Century”, in John Biles, Meyer Burstein, James Frideres, Erin 

Tolley, and Robert Vineberg edited , Integration and Inclusion of Newcomers and Minorities 

across Canada, Queen’s Policy Studies Series, McGill- Queen’s University Press, Montreal & 

Kingston, Chapter 11, pp. 325 – 354. 

2009. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay “Kashmir's Secessionist Movement Resurfaces: Ethnic 

Identity, Community Competition, and the State”, Asian Survey, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp.924-950. 

2008. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay and Julian Schofield “Why Pakistan Failed: Tribal Focoism in 

Kashmir”, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol. 19, Issue 1, pp.22-38. 

2008. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay and Csaba Nikoleyni, “Global Conflict and Conflict 

Resolution: Alternative Strategies of Governance” in Dhirender Vajpeyi and Renu Khator 

edited, Globalization, Governance, and Technology: Challenges and Alternative” Deep and 

Deep Publishers, New Delhi, Chapter 12. 

2007. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay “Identity and Nationalism: Where are Women in Kashmiri 

Politics?” in Speaking Across Borders: Women and Peacebuilding in India and Pakistan” 

editors Shree Mulay and Jackie Kirk edited, Antham Press: A Publishing Unit of Wimbledon 

Publishing Company, Delhi, pp. 111 -132. 

-3-


2005. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay and Julian Schofield, “Institutional Causes of Indo-Pakistani 

Rivalry” In T.V. Paul edited, The Indian Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring Rivalry, Cambridge 

University Press, pp. 225-250. 

2005. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, “Afghanistan: Multicultural Federalism as a Means to 

Achieve Democracy, Representation and Stability” in Sid Noel Edited, Power Sharing in 

Ethnically Divided Societies, Studies in Nationalism and Conflict Series, McGill Queen Press, 

pp. 190-214. 

2005. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, “Kashmir” Encyclopaedia of India, (editor Stanley Wolpert) 

Scribner and Thompson Gale, 4000 words. 

2005. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, “Jammu and Ladakh” Encyclopaedia of India, (editor Stanley 

Wolpert) Scribner and Thompson Gale, 2000 words. 

2004. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, “Dogris” Encyclopaedia of Minorities, Routledge. 

2003. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, “Recent Developments and Debates in Local government in 

India” in Dhirender Vajpeyi edited, Local Democracy and Politics in South Asia: Towards 

internal decolonization? Leske+ Budrich, Opladen, Germany, pp. 47 -66. 

2003. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, “Canada and India: Broadening and Deepening Relationship” 

in Canada in Asia: Foreign Policy Dialogue Series, 2003-2004, Asia Pacific Foundation of 

Canada, Vancouver. 

2003. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, “Globalization and Indian Federalism” in B.D. Dua and M.P. 

Singh edited, Indian Federalism in the New Millennium” Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, pp. 

335 -350. 

2003, Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, Csaba Nikolenyi and Louise Otmar, “Peace and Conflict: 

Alternative Strategies of Governance and Conflict Resolution” Journal of Comparative Policy 

Analysis: Research and Practice, vol. 5, pp. 123 -146. 

2003. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, “Pakistan” Encyclopaedia on World Terrorism, M.E. Sharpe, 

2003. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, “Pervez Musharraf” Encyclopaedia on World Terrorism, 

M.E. Sharpe. 

2003. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay “Responses to the Parliamentary & Assembly Elections in 

Kashmir Valley, Ladakh and the Jammu Region and the State-societal Relations” in Ramashray 

Roy and Paul Wallace edited, 1999 Elections and Politics in India, Sage Publications, pp. 391- 

424. 

2002. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, “Kashmir Conflict: Secessionist Movement, Mobilization and 

Political Institutions”, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 74, No. 4, Winter, pp. 569 -577. 

-4-


2002. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, “Shared Sovereignty: Lesson from Indian Experience”, in 

Guiesppe Casale, Europe: Toward What Kind of Integration? University of Genoa, Italy, 2002, 

pp. 480 - 489. 

2002. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, “After Bonn Accord: Is Federalism Relevant to 

Afghanistan’s Future” Federations: What’s New in Federalism Worldwide, Forum for 

Federation, Ottawa, Vol. 2, No. 2. February. 

2002. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay and Julian Schofied, “The Future Face of Security in South 

Asia” in David Mutimer edited, Canadian International Security Policy: Reflections For A New 

Era Centre for International Security Studies, York University, Toronto, pp. 61 -78. 

2001. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, “A Federal Arrangement for Afghanistan” Federations: 

What’s New in Federalism Worldwide, Special Issue on Afghanistan Forum for Federation, 

Ottawa, November. 

2001. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, “Diasporic Indian Identity and Bollywood”, Kala, Special 

Issue, Fall. 

2001. Reeta Chowdahri Tremblay “Globalization and Indian Federalism” in Indian Journal of 

Public Administration, Vol. XLVII, No. 2 April- June, pp. 208 -221. 

2001. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay and Julian Schofield, “Hybrid Governments and Pakistan: 

Nuclear Weapons and the Conflict over Kashmir” Aakrosh, Asian Journal on International 

Terrorism and Conflicts, Volume 4, # 11, April, pp. 13 –41. 

2001. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay “Kashmir and Indo-US Relations” in Kapoor, Malik and 

Gould edited, India and the United States in a Changing World, Sage Publishers, New Delhi, 

2001, pp 499-532. 

2000. Arthur G. Rubinoff and Reeta C. Tremblay, "Different Responses to Ethnicity: Goa and 

Kashmir", in Johnston, Tremblay and Wood edited, South Asia: Between Turmoil and Hope, pp. 

163-182. Council of Canadian Asian Studies and Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Burnaby, 

B.C. Simon Fraser University. 

1999. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay “Inclusive Administration: Feminist Critiques of 

Bureaucracy” in Keith Henderson and O.P. Dwivedi ed. Bureaucracy and Alternatives in World 

Perspectives, MacMillan Press, pp. 69 -94. 

1999. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay “Elections in Kashmir: An Exercise in Pragmatism” in 

Wallace and Roy, 1998 Elections and Politics of India, Sage Publications, 1999, pp. 309-339. 

1999. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay and Julian Schofield, “Crisis in Kashmir: Role of the 

UNMOGIP”, Peacekeeping and International Relations, Pearson Institute of Peace Studies, 

January, pp. 14 -16. 

-5-


1999. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay and Anne Marie Field, Citizenship, Identity, Multiculturalism 

and State Policy: A Bibliography, Center for Research and Social Transformation, Montreal. 

1998. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay “Representation and Governance: Women and Self- 

Government in India”, Indian Journal of Public Administration, Special Issue on Good 

Governance, Vol. XL1V; 3, July-September: 454-467. 

1998. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay “Shared Sovereignty and Federalism: Some Conceptual 

Arguments” in Interfacing Nations, B. R. Publishers, New Delhi, pp. 195-204. 

1998. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay "Beyond Society-Centred and State-Centred Models: A 

Retrospective Public Policy Analysis" Indian Journal of Public Administration, Jan-March, 

pp.874-890. 

1997. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay "Nagpur Resolution: Re-distributive Agenda and Limits on 

the Autonomy of a Democratic State" in Perspectives on South Asia at the Threshold of the 21st 

Century, Canadian Association for Asian Studies, University of Montreal, pp. 487-505 

1997. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay "Growth with Justice: Understanding Poverty", in C. Steven 

La Rue ed. Regional Handbook of Economic Development, Vol. 1; India: Prospects into the 21st 

Century, Fitzroy Dearborn Publisher, Chicago, pp. 87-102. 

1997. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay "Living Multiculturally in a Federal India" in C. Steven La rue 

ed. Regional Handbook of Economic Development; Vol. 1; India: Prospects into the 21st 

Century, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, pp.158-169. 

1997. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay "Nation, Identity and the Intervening Role of the State: A 

Study of the Secessionist Movement in Kashmir", Pacific Affairs, Vol. 69, No.4, winter 1996-97, 

pp. 471-498. 

1996. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay “Representation of Self and Society in Bombay Cinema" 

Contemporary South Asia, Vol 5 No.3 October, pp.295-308. 

1995. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay "Kashmir: The Valley's Political Dynamics" Contemporary 

South Asia, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Kashmir Special Issue), March, pp. 79-101. 

1994. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay "Responses to Samir Amin's Analyses of Eurocentrism Meet 

Western Cultural Theory: Global Polarization and Cultural Materialism by Sandra Langley" in 

Undiscipilined: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Graduate Students Association, Concordia 

University, pp l7l-172. 

1994. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay "Crisis of Indian Federalism" in South Asia Horizons, edited 

by Elliot Tepper and John Wood, South Asia Council, Canadian Asian Studies Association, 

Ottawa, pp. 323-336. 

-6-


1992. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay “Jammu: Autonomy within an Autonomous Kashmir” in Raju 

G.C. Thomas edited Perspectives on Kashmir: the Roots of Conflict in South Asia, Boulder, 

Colorado: Westview Press, pp.153-167. 

Books, Text books and Edited Conference Proceedings 

2008. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, edited, Asia: Local and Global Perspectives: Selected 

Articles from the Conference of the Canadian Asian Studies Association 2006, Montreal: 

Canadian Asian Studies Association (Conference Proceedings). 

2008. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, James Kelly, Jean Mayer and Michael Lipson, Human Rights: 

Global and Canadian Perspectives, Thompson Nelson Canada, 

2007, Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, Csaba Nikolenyi , Andre Lecours, Bassel Saloukh and 

Francesca Scala, Mapping the Political Landscape: An Introduction to Political Science, Second 

Edition. 

2004. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, Csaba Nikolenyi , Andre Lecours, Bassel Saloukh and 

Francesca Scala, Mapping the Political Landscape: An Introduction to Political Science, 

Thompson Nelson Canada. 

2000. Hugh Johnston, Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay and John R. Wood, edited. South Asia: 

Between Turmoil and Hope, South Asia Council of Canadian Asian Studies and Shastri 

Indo-Canadian Institue, Burnaby, B.C. Simon Fraser University (Conference Proceedings). 

1998. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay with O.P. Dwivedi, Carole Farbers edited, Interfacing 

Nations: Indo/Pakistani/Canadian Reflections on the 50 th Anniversary of India’s Independence, 

B.R. Publishing Corporation, New Delhi. 

1997. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay edited, Perspectives on South Asia at the Threshold of the 21 st 

Century, Canadienne Des Etudes Asiatiques, University De Montreal, (Conference Proceedings). 

1991. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, State Autonomy and Public Policy in India, National Book 

Organization, New Delhi,. 

Book Reviews 

2008. Martha Nussbaum's The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future 

(Harvard, 2007), Canadian Institute of International Affairs' International Journal, Summer, pp. 

792 -794. 

2008. Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu, Bushra Asif, Cyrus Samii, Ediors KASHMIR: New Voices, 

New Approaches. (Boulder (Colorado), London (England): Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006), 

Pacific Affairs, Volume 81, No.3, Fall. 

-7-


2006. Rajesh Tandon and Ranjita Mohanty, Does Civil Society Matter? Governance in 

Contemporary India (Sage 2003), Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 39, #2. 

2005. Robert Wirsing, Kashmir in the Shadow of Nuclear War and Santhram etc. Jihadis in 

Jammu and Kashmir, Pacific Affairs, vol. 77, No. 4, 2004-2005. 

2004. Barbara Harriss-White, India Working: essays on society and economy. (Cambridge: 

Cambridge University Press, 2003), Political Studies Review, Vol. 2, No. 1. 

1996. Tahir Amin, Mass Resistance in Kashmir: Origins, Evolution, Options. (Islamabad: 

Institute of Policy Studies, 1995) in Pacific Affairs, Fall, Vol. 69, No. 3, pp. 438-439. 

1996. David Waller, The Pundits: The British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia (Lexington: 

University press of Kentucky, 1990) in Pacific Affairs, Fall, Vol. 69, No. 3, pp, 443-444. 

1995. D. Savoie, Thatcher, Regan, Mulroney: In Search of A New Bureaucracy (Toronto; 

University of Toronto Press, 1994) in Canadian Journal of Political Science, xxviii:4, December, 

pp.767-768. 

1993. Akbar S. Ahmad, Resistance and Control of Pakistan (London: Routledge, 1991) in The 

Journal of Commonwealth and Contemporary Politics November, pp. 395-396. 

1992. D.A. Low, The Political Inheritance of Pakistan (Cambridge University Press, 1991) in 

the Journal of Comparative and Commonwealth Studies November, pp. 407-408. 

1992. Yogendra K. Malik ed. India: Culture and Society: Boeings and Bullock-Carts: Studies in 

Change and Continuity in Indian Civilization Vol. 1, and Vol. 3 (New Delhi: Chanakya 

Publications, 1990) in Pacific Affairs, Summer, pp. 281-282. 

1991. Hans J. Michelmann and Panayotis Soldatas eds., Federalism and International Relations 

(New York: Oxford University Press, 1990) in Canadian Journal of Political Science, 

December, pp.865-866. 

1991. Baldev Raj Nayar, The Political Economy of India’s Public Sector in The Journal of 

Comparative and Commonwealth Studies, November, pp. 395-396. 

Forthcoming: 

Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay “The Diasporic Identity and Globalization” in Vajpayeee edited 

Perspectives on Governance and Society; Felicitation Volume in honour of Dr. O.P.Dwivedi, 

Forthcoming June 2012. 

-8-


Amanda Bittner and Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, “Attitudes Towards Immigration in Canada: 

Understanding the Potential for Welcoming Communities in Non-Traditional Host Regions,” 

Paper under review at the Journal of International Migration and Integration. 

Conference Papers and Invited Lectures 

“Race, Class, Gender, and Attitudes About Immigration: Evidence from a Survey 

Experiment,” with Amanda Bittner, Paper presented at the Joint Sessions Workshop on 

“Voting Experiments”, European Consortium for Political Research. St. Gallen, 

Switzerland. April 12-17, 2011. 

“Afghanistan: Canada’s Vietnam?” Big Idea Series, Breakfast at Parliament, Canadian 

Federation of Humanities and Social Science, November 2009. 

“Changing Landscape: Immigration and Citizenship, Newfoundland and Labrador” 11 th 

National Metropolis Conference, Calgary, Alberta, March 2009. 

“Afghanistan: Is there a Viable Political Solution?” The Rooms, St. John’s, Newfoundland and 

Labrador, January 28, 2009. 

“Secessionist Movement Resurfaces in Kashmir” 40 th Anniversary of the Shastri Indo-Canadian 

Institute Member Institution Celebrations Lecture Series, Memorial University, December 2008. 

“Does a Commitment to Citizenship, Inclusion and Integration Prevent Extremism and 

Radicalization?” National Metropolis Conference, Halifax, NS, April 2008 

“Pakistan Election: Democracy at last?” Dept. of Political Science, Memorial University, 

February 2008. 

“Reflection of Self and Society through Bollywood” Women Studies Speaker Series, Memorial 

University, March 2007. 

“India Emerging: Domestic Issues – Politics and Society”, Canadian Institute of International 

Affairs, DFAIT, Ottawa, December 1, 2006 

“Qualitative Research, Field Work and the Issues of Ethics” Canadian Asian Studies 

Association, Montreal, September 2006. 

With Julian Schofield, “Why Pakistan Failed: Tribal Focoism in Kashmir”, American Political 

Science Association, Philadelphia, September 1, 2006. 

“India and the Geopolitics of South Asia”, Canadian Institute of International Affairs National 

Arts Center, Ottawa. December 2005 

-9-


With Julian Schofield, “The Deobandi and Terror: Reconstructing Local and Pan Islamic 

Identity”, the 13 th Annual CANCAPS conference on Asia in Search of Identity and Security, 

December 2005. 

Canadian Pension Investment Association, “China Yes, What About India”, Quebec City, 

September 2005 

With Josephine Smart, “Global Production, Local Development: A Comparative Analysis of 

Rural-Urban Worker Migration in India and China”, 4 th China-India Roundtable: Population 

Policies and Development, Centre of Asian Studies, the University of Hong Kong, September 

2005. 

With Csaba Nikoleyni IPSA Research Committee 4, “Global Conflict and Conflict Resolution: 

Alternative Strategies of Governance”, University of Florida, Tempa, September 2005 

“Diapsoric Identity and Bollywood”, Canadian Council of Area Studies, Montreal, May 2005. 

“Indo-Pakistani Regimes Types and Rivalry,” CANCAPS Conference, Quebec 

City, December 5, 2004 

“Workshops on Sri Lankan Federalism” Forum for Federation and South Asia Partnership, 

Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, October and November 2004. 

“India-Pakistan: Enduring Rivalries”, Public Lecture, Center for Foreign Policy Studies, 

Dalhousie University, Halifax, October 2004. 

Guest Lecturer in India Studies Class on “Indian constitution: continuities and discontinuities 

with the past”, International Development Studies Program, Dalhousie University, Halifax, 

October 2004. 

“The Kashmir Issue” India-Pakistan Conference, McGill University, March 2004. 

“India-Pakistan Relations: The Kashmir Issue” Gleneden College, York University conference 

on The Challenges of An Emerging Power, February 2004. 

“Institutional Causes of Indo-Pakistani Rivalry” Enduring Rivalries Conference, McGill 

University, November 2003. 

“Kashmir: Towards a Possible Solution?” Canadian Association for Asian Studies, Halifax, June 

2003. 

“Kashmir and Federalism” The Rudolph Conference, the University of Chicago, April 12 -14 th 

2003. 

“Canada-India Relations; the Need to Re-Engage” Asia Pacific Foundation Foreign Policy 

Dialogue, Ottawa, March 26 -27 th , 2003. 

-10-


Seminar Presentation, Dalhousie University, the Center for Foreign Policy Studies, “Nation, 

State and Identity and the Issue of Kashmir” March 5 th , 2003. 

Public Lecture, Dalhousie University - the International Development Studies, “India-Pakistan 

Relations”, March 4 th , 2003. 

Guest Lecture on “India and the Constitution” to the India Studies Class in the International 

Development Studies Program, Dalhousie University, Halifax, March 2003. 

“Afghanistan: Multicultural Federalism as a Means to Achieve Democracy, Representation and 

Stability” Conference on “From Power Sharing to Democracy”, University of Western Ontario, 

November 8- 10, 2002. 

“Roundtable on Governance in Afghanistan” Center for Foreign Policy and Department of 

foreign Affairs and International Trade, October, 2002. 

“Kashmir Militancy and Politics: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back”, 30 th Annual Conference 

on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 18-21 st , 2001. 

“Crisis in Afghanistan”, Munk Center, University of Toronto, September, 2002. 

“Differing Responses to Ethnicity: Goa and Kashmir” Canadian Political Science Association, 

Quebec City, May 2001. 

“The Future Face of Security in South Asia” York University, ISOP Conference on Security, 

May 14 and 15, 2001. 

“Forum for Federalism, Shared Sovereignty: Lessons from the India Experience”, Europe: 

Toward What Kind of Integration? , Genoa, Italy, July 2000. 

“Differing Responses of Jammu and Kashmir to the 1999 Parliamentary Elections”, American 

Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 2000. 

Kashmir and the Indo-US Relations”, Mid-West Asian Studies Association, East Lansing 

Michigan, September 1999. 

“State as a Gendered Institution” Center for Developing Area Studies, McGill University, 

November 1999. 

“Differing Responses to Identity: the case of Goa and Kashmir”, Canadian Asian Studies 

Conference, June 1999, UQAM, Montreal. 

Invited guest speaker, South Asian Studies Center, University of British Columbia, “Elections in 

Kashmir; Issues of Identity and Economic Well-Being”, April, 1999. 

-11-


“Diasporic Indian Identity, Bollywood, and the Discourse on Indianness”, the Centre for Asia- 

Pacific Initiatives and Faculty of Fine Arts 1999 conference on South Asian popular culture, 

University of Victoria, April 1999. 

Invited participant for the Outreach visit of Canadian high commissioner to India, Peter Walker, 

in the roundtable discussion on Peace and Security in south Asia, organized by DFAIT, January 

1999. 

“Kashmir Region” South Asia outreach programme, the University of Chicago, South Asian 

Studies, 1998. 

“Authenticating Identity in the Indian Diaspora: Bombay Cinema in the Nineties”, International 

Convention of Asia Scholars, International Institute for Asian Studies, American Association of 

Asian Studies and the Asia Committee of the European Science Foundation, Leiden, June 1998. 

“Identity and State Formation, Lessons from Kashmir”, International Conference on Sri Lanka - 

Nationalisms in Conflict and the Prospects for Peace in Sri Lanka, Concordia, Montreal, 

February 1998. 

Guest Lecturer, Dept. of Cinema, Concordia University on “Sociological and Political Changes 

in Bombay Cinema,” February, 1998. 

“Growth with Justice: Understanding Poverty, South Asia Council of Canadian Asian Studies, 

Carleton University, August 1997. 

“Multiculturalism and the Discourse on Citizenship”, Canadian Asian Studies Association, St. 

John Memorial University, June 1997. 

Gave a three hour Seminar on “Kashmir and Regional Stability”, CIDA and Department of 

Foreign Affairs in the CIDA-South Asia Council Seminar Series, April 1997. 

“Punjabi Wedding Songs and Construction of Gendered Identities”, Canadian Asian Studies 

Association, Brook University, St. Catherine, June 1996. 

Guest Lecture “Kashmir: Nation and the State” South Asian Studies and Graduate Studies, 

University of Toronto, April 4, 1996. 

“Cyberspace and Cross Cultural Political Identities”, Centre for Cultures, Technologies and the 

Environment, Mysore, India, February 1996. 

Guest Lecture “the Secessionist Movement in Kashmir” York University, Dept. of Political 

Science, January 23, 1996. 

“Nation, Identity and Kashmir: How Does Economic Fit In?” Canadian Political Science 

-12-


Association, UQAM, June 1995. 

“Kashmir Problem: Problems and Prospects” Kashmiri Pundit Association, San Francisco, 

1994. 

“Informal Nationalism & State Strategies” University of Pittsburgh, October 1994. 

“Nationalism and the Intervening Role of the State” Conference on Democracy and 

Consolidation, McGill University, Department of Political Science, September 1994. 

“Nation, Identity and the State”, Canadian Asian Studies, Calgary, June 1994. 

Two guest lectures given to undergraduate students in the Department of English, McGill 

University and Dept. of Cinema, Concordia University, on Indian Cinema and Modernity, 1993. 

“Kashmir: Crisis of Indian Federalism” Canadian Asian Studies, Carleton, June 1993. 

“Kashmir’s Secessionist Movement” Canadian Political Science Association, Carleton, January 

1993. 

“Constitutional Crisis & the Immigrant Community”, Le Cercle des Femmes, Montreal, August 

1992. 

“Federalism & the Canadian Referendum”, Royal Bank of Canada, Economics & Public Affairs 

Department, July 1992. 

“Vigilante in India Cinema: Socio-Political Change Understood Through Popular Culture,” 

University of Chicago, Workshop on Culture & Consciousness, May 1992. 

“Immigration and Culture”, Le Cercle des Femmes, Montreal, November 1991. 

“Agrarian Transformative Strategy and Limits on the Autonomy of the Indian State”. 20 th South 

Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 199l. 

“Gandhi and his Contributions”, Indo Canada Association, Montreal, October 1991. 

“Popular Media and Family Violence”, National Conference on Violence against South Asian 

Women, South Asian Women Center, Montreal, August 1991. 

“Federalism and Shared Sovereignty; Some Conceptual Arguments”, Canadian Political Science 

Association, Queen’s University, June 1991. 

Faculty seminar on South Asia and the Middle East, “Representation and Reflection of Self and 

Society in the Bombay Cinema”, University of Chicago, April 1991. 

“Indian Women of the First Generation”, Le Cercle des Femmes, Montreal, March 1991. 

-13-


“Social and Political Change Reflected in the Bombay Cinema”. Far West Popular Culture 

Association, University of Nevada, January 1991. 

“Hindi Films: Mirror and Blue Print of North India Society”, American Association for Asian 

Studies, Chicago, April 1990. 

“Redistributive Politics and Limits on the Economy of a Democratic State”. Canadian Political 

Science Association, University of Laval, June 1989. 

“State Societal Relations: A Retrospective Public Policy Analysis”. Canadian Political Science 

Association, University of Windsor, June 1988. 

“Changing Nature of India State”. Canadian Political Science Association, University of 

McMaster, June 1987. 

“State Power, Representation and Dilemma of Equity and Growth” American Association for 

Asian Studies, Boston, April 1987. 

“Agrarian Issues, Ideology and the Congress”. Canadian Conference n the Centenary of the 

India National Congress, Montreal, May 1986. 

Center for Research-Action on Race Relation’s Conference on Art.27 & the Canadian Charter of 

Rights & Freedoms, participated in the workshop on “Art.27 and Aboriginal Rights” Montreal, 

January 1986. 

RESEARCH GRANTS 

External Grants: 

SSHRC 2007-2010, The Ties That Unbind: Kin-State Relations and Insurgency in South Asia, 

(With Julian Schofield), $75,500, 3 year period, 2006-2009 (Principal Investigator). 

Workshop on Creating and Revitalizing Democratic Institutions in South Asia and Latin 

America, $12,000 (with John Wood, Max Cameron of UBC), Canadian Council of Area Studies 

and Learned Studies, 2001. Joint Principal Recipient. 

Difference: Official Nationalism and the Construction of Political Community in Independence 

India, SSHRC with Arthur Rubinoff, , $73,000, 1998-2002. (This amount was equally shared, 

half deposited in each university). Co-Investigator (Principal determined alphabetically) 

Reconsidering the Nation-State: A Case Study of the Secessionist Movement in Kashmir, 

SSHRC grant, total $30,000, 3 year period, 1994-1996 (Principal Investigator). 

-14-


Contracts: 

International Colloquium on Mahbub Ul Haq Legacy and Human Development in South Asia, 

for the Canadian Asian Studies Association, Canadian International Development Agency,1999, 

Total contract value, $255,000. 

Canadian Council of Area Studies, Operating Grant, IDRC, for CCASLS, 2004 -2007, $160,000 

(2004-5), $166,000 (2005-2006), $169,000 (2006-2007). 

Office of Multiculturalism, Department of Human Resources, Labour and Employment, 

Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, “Religion, Culture and Diversity: Newfoundland 

and Labrador” $40,000, 2008-09. 

Internal Grants: 

The Ties That Unbind: Kin-State Relations and Insurgency in South Asia, Bridge funding for 

receiving 4A for SSHRC grant, $6,000, 2005 -2006. 

Canada’s Foreign Policy towards South Asia, Bridge funding for receiving 4A for SSHRC 

grant, $6,000, 2003 -2004. 

Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy and War Causation: A Study of 1999 Indo-Pakistan Kargil 

(Kashmir) Dispute. General Research fund with Julian Schofield, $8,000, January 2001. 

Canada’s Foreign Policy towards South Asia, General Research fund, $3,000, Jan. 2000. 

Citizenship: Its Discourse and the Immigrant Communities in Canada, SSHRC, General 

Research Fund, January 1998, $5,000. 

Citizenship and Governance: Center for Research on Citizenship and Social Transformation 

MIDRI Grant, Principal Coordinator Prof. Marty Allor, 1995-97. 

Nationalism and the Intervening Role of the State, General Research Fund, SSHRC Funds, 

$2,750, 1995. 

Kashmir: A Case Study of Ethno-Nationalism, General Research Fund, $2,500, 1994. 

The Political Economy of Poverty in India, General Research Fund, SSHRC funds, $3,000, 

1993. 

The Political Economy of Poverty in India- Faculty Research and Development Grant, Bridge 

funding for receiving 4A in SSHRC competition, $7,000, 1992. 

Federalism and Shared Sovereignty: A Comparative Study of Quebec and Kashmir, SSHRC, 

General Research Fund, $3500, 1991. 

-15-


State Structures, Legitimacy, and Problematic of State Autonomy, General Research Fund, 

$1800, 1990. 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Memorial University 

Graduate Courses: Masters in Political Science 

2009 January 

POLS 6400 Political Development: Issues in Comparative Politics 

2008 January 

POLS 6400 Political Development: Issues in Comparative Politics 

Thesis Supervision 

Stephen Ross, “Nigerian Federalism: Ethnicity and Nationalism” Masters in Political Science, 

completed 2010. 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Concordia University 

Courses taught in the Department of Political Science include introductory courses, specialized 

courses in the fields of South Asian Politics and Comparative Politics and the core courses in the 

Master’s in Public Policy and Public Administration. 

Undergraduate Courses 

1989-2006 

Introduction to Political Science 60-100 students (1989-95, 1995-98) 

Introduction to Canadian Govt. 65 students (1990) 

Political Systems of Southern Asia 60-80 students (1989-92) 

State and Society in South-Asia 25-35 students (1991-94,1998) 

Seminar on India: State & Societal Rel. 24 students (Fall 2000) 

Human Rights an Overview 100-180 students (2000- 2005) 

Seminar on Democracy & Development 27 Students (2001, 2002) 

Honours Seminar 17 Students (2003, 2004) 

1981-1989 

Introduction to Political Science 60-65 students (1981-85) 

-16-


Seminar in Modern World Society 25 students 

Issues and Areas in Canadian Public Policy 45 students 

Political System of Southern Asia 60-80 students (1983-89) 

Asia and Power Politics 55-65 students (1984-89) 

Introduction to Political Science 1 109 students (1986-89) 

Introduction to Political Science 11 110 students (1086-89) 

Undergraduate Reading Courses 

South Asian Politics Reena Massud Singh 3 cr 2004 

Development and Democracy Maria Pardes 3 cr 2004 

Development and Democracy Annick Le Blanc 3 cr 2004 

Topics in Comparative Politics Joanna Valiquette 3 cr 2003 

Human Rights and Justice Geneva Guerin 3 cr. 2003 

Comparative Public Policy Geneva Guerin 3 cr 2003 

Political Participation in Canada Stefan Herman 3 cr 2003 

Human Rights & Int’l Justice Nick Anastas 3 cr 2000 

Culture & Human Rights Lisa Harris 3 cr 2000 

Ethnicity and nationalism Rania Aboud 3 cr. 1999 

Political Economy of India Nahid Shahalimi 6 cr. 1998 

Advanced International Relations Omar Aboud 6 cr. 1997-1998 

Advanced Political Economy of India Aziz Mulay-Shah 6 cr. 1997 

Political Development and Modernization Leanne Bennet 6 cr. 1993- 

1994 

Political Development and Modernization Rahim Zenoul 6 cr. 1993 

Development in Indonesia Mark Nicholson 6 cr. 1992-1993 

Political Development and Modernization Stephanie Vandystadt6 cr. 1992-1993 

Political Development and Modernization Derek MacCuish 6 cr. 1990-1991 

Quebec and Political Modernization Kenneth Johnson 6 cr. 1989 

Contemporary Political Economy of India Michael Becker 6 cr. 1988-89 

Contemporary Political Economy of India Aleem Lakhani 6 cr. 1988 

Graduate Courses: Master’s in Public Policy and Public Administration 

Taught every year, from 1991 to 2004, Theories of Public Policy and Public Administration, a 

core course in the MPPPA program, average number of students 18 

Other graduate courses taught are: 

State: A Historical and Conceptual Enquiry (average number of students: 16) 

Ethnicity and Nationalism: A Comparative Perspective (average number of students: 20) 

Graduate Reading Courses (MA) 

Public Administration Pakistan Arif Khan 3 cr. 2004 

-17-


Chinese Socialism Richard Choi 3 cr. 2003 

Gender and Security Althea Rivas 3 cr 2002 

Women and Third World Politics Jenifer Henderson 3 cr 2001 

Immigration and Citizenship Bob Bikos 3 cr 2000 

Citizenship and Identity Agueda Carbonell 3 cr. 1999 

Citizenship and Identity Richard Baission 3 cr. 1999 

Women and Islam Mona Mohammed 3 cr. 1998 

Global Governance and Citizenship Jean-Patrick Villeneuve 3 cr. 1998 

Japanese Foreign Policy Aphrodite Sahlas 3 cr. 1997 

Immigration Policies, Canada and Quebec Andrew Aryee 3 cr. 1997 

Post-Industrialism and Public Joseph Politi 3 cr. 1997 

Theories of Development Armen Papazian 3 cr. 1997 

Economic Reforms in Indonesia Paseng B. Ries 3 cr. 1995 

Nuclear Proliferation and Asia Julian Schofield 3 cr. 1994 

Canada-Indonesia Relations Derek MacCuish 3 cr. 1994 

Urbanization in Bangladesh Natasha Blanchet-Cohen 3 cr. 1994 

Nation, State and Identity Paul Downing 3 cr. 1993 

Nation, State and Identity James Piecowye 3 cr. 1993 

Ph.D. Reading Courses (Humanities) 

Bangladesh: Development Iqbal Shailo 3 cr F/04 

Theories of Development 2 Moses Geepu-Nah Tiepoh 3 cr W/03 

Theories of Development 1 Moses Geepu-Nah Tiepoh 3 cr W/02 

Discourses on Political Violence Tasneem Kirji 3 cr W/02 

Inter.Rel., Globalization & Dev. Theory Diane Cousineau 3 cr. F/01 

Feminist Theory Leila Atrachi 3 cr. W/00 

Comparative Political Analysis Abdullah Mojaddedi 3 cr. F/1999 

State and Society in Afghanistan Abdullah Mojaddedi 6 cr. W/S/1998 

Conflict Resolution Theory and Process 

In Public Policy Design Geoffrey Reid 6 cr F/W/1997-98 

Theoretical Approaches to Post- 

Colonialism Adrian Archer 3 cr. S/1997 

State and Society in Tanzania Mary D. Mulugu 6 cr. F/W/1993 

Ph.D. Theses 

Moses Geepu-Nah Tiepoh, "Implications of Non-agricultural Diversification for Economic and 

Social Change in Rural Africa, Co-supervisor, Completed 2006. (Ph.D Humanities) 

Diane Cousineau, “Europe and the Caribbean: Evolution of the European Community Trade/Aid 

Policy and Its Implications for Development in the Caribbean, Principal Supervisor, Completed 

Spring 2005. (Ph.D Humanities) 

-18-


Leila Atrachi, “Feminist Theory, Working Women, Egyptian Educational System”, Co 

Supervisor, Completed 2003. (Ph.D Humanities) 

Mary Mulugu, “Post Colonialism and Income Generating Projects in Western Africa,” Principal 

Supervisor, Completed November 1999. (Ph.D Humanities) 

Abdullah Mojaddedi, “Pakistan’s Afghan Policy and the American Influence, 1978-1992,” 

Principal Supervisor, In Progress. (Ph.D Humanities) 

M.A. Theses 

Brian James Lonergan, “Mexico’s Maquiladora Program: A Case for Revising Development 

Policy,” Principal Supervisor Completed Spring 1993. 

James Piecowye, “The Reconstruction of the Nation-State and Its Implications for Aboriginals In 

Canada,” Principal Supervisor Completed Spring 1994. 

Julian Schofield, “Modeling the Motivational Correlates of Nuclear Proliferation,” Principal 

Supervisor Spring 1995. 

Paul Downing, “Applying a Post-Modern Framework to Native Self-Government in Canada,” 

Principal Supervisor Completed Spring 1995. 

Donna Moore, “Reproductive Technologies and Public Policy Approaches,” Principal 

Supervisor Completed Spring 1997. 

Derek MacCuish, “Canada’s Foreign policy Towards Human Rights in Indonesia,” Principal 

Supervisor Completed 1999. 

Mona Mohammed, “Women and Islam: Reform Politics”, Principal Supervisor Completed 

November 1999 

Rick Bissaillon, “Liberal democracy as a Kuhnian Paradigm: Applying a Model Confronted by 

Irreconcilable Accumulated Anomaly as a Normative Prescription for the Organization of Global 

Society , Principal Supervisor Completed 2001. 

Danielle Lustgarten, “Race and Space: Mapping the Construction of Political Community” 

Principal Supervisor Completed 2001. 

Richard Choi, “Chinese Socialism and Party Politics” Principal Supervisor Completed 2004. 

-19-


MPPPA Internship Supervision (Principal Supervisor). 

Pedram Pirina, “State Building – Afghanistan”, completed August 2004. 

Jennifer Toth, “The Disarmament, Demilitarization and Reintegration of Child Combatants”, 

completed June 2003. 

Anna-Maria Piccioni, “The Impact of Technology on the Power of the State”, completed 2003. 

Bob Boikos, “Principal-ship and the Greek School System in Montreal”, completed May 2002. 

Leah Olson, “Evaluation Research: Case Study of the Remote Rail Evaluation”, completed 

2000. 

Sheila Mahant , “Rewards and Recognition Project: Transport Canada Ontario Region”, 

completed April 1999. 

Christopher Gregory, “A Critical Review of Correctional Service of Canada’s Policy Review 

response to Recommendation # 14 of the Commissions Report”, completed April 1999. 

Eimar Quinn, “The Challenges of Federal Versus Provincial Jurisdiction in the Work of the 

Office of the Auditor General of Canada”, completed April 1999. 

Serge Merhi, “Sentinel Community Surveillance: Planning by Involving the Community”, 

completed November 1999. 

Andrew Aryee, “Science Products and Services Review under the Review Directorate: The 

Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Ottawa” completed April 1999. 

Aphrodite Sahlas, “Post-Secondary Education in Canada”, Spring 1998. 

Andrea Lawrie, “A History of Federal/Provincial Exchange of Services Agreements Origins,” 

Spring 1998. 

Leah Borsa, “Conflict Resolution and ADR: New Decision Making Process in Federal 

Government,” Spring 1998. 

Elizabeth Daigle, “Spousal Retirement Benefits and the Policy Process in Quebec,” Spring 1998. 

Stewart Stinson, “Reaching Agreement: B.C. Treaty Negotiations and Conflict Resolution 

Theory” August 1998. 

Charmaine Peters, “The Challenge of Youth Education and Training,” October 1998. 

Geoffrey Burrows, “Institutional Impediments to Restorative Justice in Canada” December 1998. 

-20-


Lynn Roy, “Policy making in Canada– An Examination of the Creation and Implementation of 

Bill C-86,” 1997. 

Laura Wells, “Collective Bargaining and Concordia University’s Staff Union,” 1995. 

Teny Dikranian, “From Bureaucracy to Entrepreneurialism: A Comparative analysis of Change 

in the Public Sector,” 1994. 

Pierre Vachon, “Active Living at Place du Protage – Phase IV,” 1993. 

Muriel Librati, “Audit Overview of the Department of National Defense Infrastructure”, 

Principal Supervisor, 1993. 

Francesca Scala, “Economic Instruments in Environmental Protection: The Case of Emission 

Charges and Tradable Permit Systems,” 1993 

Ali Abdi, “Evaluating Internal Communications in Transport Canada: The Evaluation Process, 

the Communications Problem and Employee Communications in the Context of Contemporary 

Organizations,” 1993. 

Jamieson Montgomery, “The Federal Regulatory Process: The Evolution of Regulatory Reform,” 

Principal Supervisor, 1992. 

External Examiner for MA and Ph.D Theses 

Acted as the external examiner for Ph.D theses for Dalhousie University, University of Alberta, 

University of North Bengal, India; the History Department Concordia University; examined 

Masters Theses for McGill University, the departments of Geography and Communication 

Studies at Concordia. 

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE 

University of Victoria 

- Vice-President Academic and Provost, 2011 January - 

Memorial University 

- Dean, Faculty of Arts, 2006-2011 

- Member, Mandatory Retirement Committee, 2006- 2007 

- Member, Dean of Science Search Committee, 2006 -2007 

- Chair, Review of Dean, Faculty of Education, 2007 

- Member, Negotiating Team Collective Agreement LUMUN (Per Course 

Instructors), 2007 – 08 

-21-


- Member, Search Committee for General Legal Counsel for Memorial University 

of Newfoundland, 2007 

- Member, Search Committee for Director, Life Long Learning Unit, 2008 

- Member, Presidential Search Committee, 2007-08 

- Member, Administrative Stipend Review Committee, 2008 

- Member, Advisory Committee – Senior Leadership Development Program, 2008- 

09 

- Chair, Mid-Term Review, Dean of Student Affairs and Services, 2008-09. 

- Member, Negotiating Team Collective Agreement, Full Time Faculty (MUNFA). 

2009- 

Concordia University 

1) Department of Political Science 

- Chair, Department of Political Science, June 1998-May 2001, June 2001- May 

2005. 

- Director, Master’s Programme in Public Policy and Public Administration 

1993-June 1998 sabbatical leave: 1995-1996; replaced by Prof. Ronald Coyte) 

- Departmental Coordinator for Library – 1997-1998 

- Academic Advisor, Honours Students in Political Science – 1990-1993 

- Department Grievance Committee – 1989-1992 

- Department Curriculum Committee 1989-1990, 1997-1998 

- Department Grievance Committee – 1989-1992 

- Department trips for undergraduate and graduate students to Ottawa to better 

acquaint students with the Government of Canada – 1989-1994 

- Department Appeals Committee – 1989-1991 

- Department Workload Committee – 1991-1995, 1997-1998 

- Department Personnel Committee – 1991-1995, 1997-1998 

- Department Part-Time Hiring Committee – 1991-1993, 1994-1997 

2) Faculty of Arts & Science 

- Faculty representative for new student orientation at Montreal area CEGEPS – 

1989-96 

- Faculty Committee on the Status of Women – 1992-1993 

- Faculty Appraisal Committee for Leisure Studies Programme – 1992-1993 

- Search Committee for the Principal of SCPA – 1993-1994 

- Faculty Tenure Committee – 1993-1995 

- Faculty Curriculum Committee – 1993-1995 

- Search Committee for the Chair, Economics Department – 1994-1995 

- Faculty Panel, Academic Regulations Regarding Cheating – 1994-1997 

- Search Committee for the Principal of SCPA – 1996-97 

- General Research Fund Committee – 1996-1998 

- Faculty Personnel Committee (Alternate) – 1996-1998 

-22-


- Faculty Personnel and Tenure Committee, 1998-1999. 

- Faculty of Arts and Science Steering Committee, 1999-2000. 

Faculty of Arts & Science External Advisory Board, 1999- present 

Search Committee for the Principal of SCPA – 2000 

- General Education Committee, 2001 


- Search Committee for the Chair of Geography– 2001 -2002 

- Search Committee for the Chair of the Religion Department – 2002 -2003. 

- International Scholarship Committee- 2001- 2003. 

- General Education Committee – 2001 – 2004. 

- Professor Emeritus Committee – 2003 -2005. 


- Member, Nikko D Scholarship Committee, 2002-2005. 

- Honorary Doctorate Degree Committee, 2005. 

3) University Bodies 

- Associate Fellow, Simone de Beauvoir Institute – 1992-1994 

- Academic Advisor, Southern Asian Studies Major – 1995 - 2003 

- Member, Center for Research on Citizenship and Social Transformation – 1995- 

present 

- Graduate Appeals Committee of School of Graduate Studies – 1996-1998 

- SSHRC Internal Competition Committee – 1997-1999 

- Senate of Concordia – 1997-2000, 2000-2005 

- Fellow, Centre for Mature Students – 1998-2005. 

- Member, University Appeals Board.1998-2000. 

- Member, Graduation Ceremonies Committee, 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2005. 

- Ph.D. Humanities Committee, 2000-2004.. 

- Senate Steering Committee 1999-2000, 2000-2005. 

- Member, Graduation Awards Committee 2000-2001, 2001 -2003. 

- REEAB (Rector’s Employment Equity Advisory Board), 1999-2003. 

- Member, Committee for Evaluation of the Dean of Faculty of Arts and Science, 

2001. 

- Member, Board of Governors Task Force to Review Permanent Evaluation 

Procedures for Incumbent Senior Administrators, 2001-2002. 

- Steering Committee, 2003-2004 Annual Campaign, Faculty Appeal 

- Graduation Ceremonies Committee, 2001-2005. 

- Co-Chair, Faculty Campaign Committee, 2004-2005 

- Member, School of Graduate Studies Council, 2004-2006. 

- Peace and Conflict Resolution Adjudication Committee, 2003-2005. 

EXTERNAL PROGRAMME EVALUATOR 

External Reviewer, Social Sciences (Anthropology, Geography, Political Science, Sociology 

-23-


plus interdisciplinary programs), University of Toronto, Scarborough, January 2008 

External Reviewer, Political Science Department, Simon Fraser University, March 7 -9 th , 2007. 

Appraised Ryerson University’s proposed Masters Programme in Public Policy, for the Ontario 

Council on Graduate Studies, September 2004. 

Reviewed The University of Saskatchewan’s Interdisciplinary Program of International Studies 

as a part of the University Standard Program Review, March 24- 26 th , 2003. 

Appraised Queen’s University’s MA/Ph.D. Program of Political Studies, for the Ontario Council 

on Graduate Studies, December 2000. 

Reviewed University of Laval’s Masters Programme in Policy Analysis, 1998. 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 

Guest Reviewer, Special Issue, Journal of Borderland Studies, September 2011. 

Moderator, “Effective Narrative Strategies in Politics and Government”, the Institute of Public 

Administration of Canada, IPAC Annual Conference , Victoria, BC, August 30, 2011 

Keynote speaker, Diversity Symposium, Association for New Canadians, St. John’s, NL, 2009 

Discussant, Atlantic Province Political Science Association meeting, on “Internationalization, the 

State and Trade in the Global Era”, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, September 2007, 

Participated in the Foreign and Security Policy Roundtable for Policy, organized by CANCAPS, 

August 2004. 

Participated in the Foreign Policy Dialogue, organized by the Asia Pacific Foundation and the 

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, March 2003. 

Briefed Canadian Minster Stephen Dion on his India visit and assisted with the preparation of his 

speech for the Pearson lecture in India, 2002. 

Participant in the Special Roundtable on Afghanistan, the Munk Center, University of Toronto, 

November 2001. 

Organized Canadian Asian Studies Conference on “Interpreting the Past and Designing the 

future in South Asia”, Laval University, Quebec city, May 2001. 

Participant in a workshop on “The Impact of Global Integration on Developing Federations”, 

International Conference on the Impact of Global and Regional Integration on Federal Political 

Systems, Ottawa, December 8-9, 2000. 

-24-


Organizer and contract holder on behalf of the SAC of the Canadian Association Studies for 

organizing a conference for CIDA on ‘Mahbub Ul Haq Legacy and Human Development in 

South Asia”, to be held in October 1999, Total contract value, $255,000. 

Programme committee chair of the SAC/Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute conference on “South 

Asia: Between Turmoil and Hope”, UQAM, June 1999. 

On December 4, 1997 briefed Governor-General of Canada, His Excellency Romeo LeBlanc and 

his wife Mrs. Diane Fowlers LeBlanc, on their forthcoming trip to India in March 1998. The 

Governor-General was briefed by two academics at his residence and this luncheon meeting was 

organized by the Department of Foreign Affairs, South Asia Branch. 

Included in a list of “Notable Canadians” compiled by the Department of Foreign Affairs and 

International Trade, South Asia Branch, to accompany the Governor-General to India. 

Invited as a participant to the workshop on “Migration, Minorities and Social Integration: 

Looking to the Future”, Council of Europe and the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association, 

February, 1998. 

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Govt. of Canada invited to participate in 

a roundtable on the South Asian Security, March 26, 1996, A Follow-up discussion for Team 

Canada to India. 

Programme Coordinator, Interactive Project of CIDA and the South Asia Council of Canadian 

Asian Studies Association ($10,000 budget), 1996-present. 

Organized the International Conference on the 50 th Anniversary of Independence of India and 

Pakistan, Canadian Association for Asian Studies and Shastri Indo Canadian Institute, August 

1997, Carleton University. 

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, invited by Govt. of Canada to participate 

in a roundtable on the South Asian Security, March 26, 1996, a follow-up discussion for Team 

Canada to India. 

Member of the Board of Directors of Centre for Cultures, Technologies and the Environment 

Mysore, India, 1995-present. 

Member of the India Studies Development and Fellowship Committee, Shastri Indo-Canada 

Institute, Calgary, 1995-present. 

Organized Conference and Program Chair, South Asia Council for Canadian Asian Studies 

Association, at the Learned Societies, University of Quebec at Montreal, June 1995. 

Organized the section on Comparative Politics, Developing and Section Head of Comparative 

-25-


Politics, Political Science Association Conference at the Learned Society, University of Quebec 

at Montreal, June 1995. 

Secretary-Treasurer of the South Asia Council of Canadian Asian Studies Association, 1994-99. 

Member of the Board of Directors for Center for Research-Action on Race Relations, 1987-88. 

Member of the Board of Directors and of the executive and the finance committees of the 

YMCA, downtown Montreal, 1983-85. 

Refereed grant applications for SSHRC, FCAR and FQRSC and the Shastri Institute India 

Studies Fellowships. 

Refereed Journal Articles for prominent Asian and Political Science Journals – Pacific Affairs, 

Journal of Asian Studies, Contemporary South Asia, Canadian Journal of Political Science (both 

English and French), Comparative Politics, International Journal, Canadian Foreign Policy, 

Journal for Comparative Public Policy, International Political Science Journal; Manuscript 

reviewer for Routledge, McGill-Queen, Broadview Press. 

MEDIA APPEARANCES 

Appearances on television and radio as an expert on the Indian Political Scene and the Kashmir 

secessionist movement: on several CBC programs – National (with Brian Stewart), Sunday 

Morning (Michael Enright), Morning Side (Shelagh Rogers), Cross Country Check Up (Rex 

Murphy), The Current (Anna Maria Tremonti), CBC International, Newsworld, CTV, CBC 

(Montreal) Noon Call in Show (Nancy Wood), CBC Radio (St. John’s), CJFM Radio (Montreal), 

CHOM(Montreal), CJAD(Montreal), 940 (Montreal), New York Public Radio (Brian Lehrer), 

Chicago Public Radio, Out of the Fog (Rogers TV, Newfoundland). Also interviewed by the 

Print media - La Presse. Le Devoir, The Globe and Mail and India Abroad on the Kashmir 

situation in India and India Pakistan Relations. 

-26-

Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay - University of Victoria

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?