Dr. Siobhan Byrne
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Director of the Certificate in Peace and Post-Conflict Studies
10-16 Henry Marshall Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta CanadaT6G 2H4
Tel: 780-935-1838, E-mail: [email protected]
Personal information
Canadian citizenship
Irish citizenship
Professional career
University of Alberta (2009–)*
2009–
Assistant Professor of Political Science
2010–
Acting Director of the Certificate in Peace and Post-Conflict Studies
*(maternity leave February 2012–January 2013; January 2014–January
2015)
Education
2008–09 Postdoctoral Fellowship University College Dublin, Ireland, School of Politics
and International Relations and The John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies
Project: The Irish Experience of Conflict Resolution in a Comparative Context
Supervisor: Jennifer Todd
2009
PhD Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, Department of Political Studies
Dissertation: Beyond the Ethnonational Divide: Identity Politics and Women in
Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine
Fields of concentration: International Relations and Comparative Politics
Supervisors: John McGarry and Eleanor MacDonald
Committee: Simona Sharoni (external examiner), Will Kymlicka, Abigail Bakan,
and Oded Haklai
2002 MA Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, Department of Political Studies
Major Research Project: Constructing Subaltern National Identity Under
Hegemony: The Case of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Supervisors: Charles Pentland and Louis Delvoie
2001 Bachelor of Journalism and Political Science Carleton University, Ottawa, ON,
Canada
Bachelor’s Degree, Highest Honours Distinction
Areas of concentration: International Reportage, International Relations
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Teaching experience
Graduate supervision
2012–14
Dr. Rebecca Graff-McRae, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship
Title: ‘Neither Prison nor Museum’: The Politics of Conflict Memory in
Northern Ireland
2012–
Leigh Spanner, PhD student
Title: Constituting the Military: The Family’s Material and Symbolic Role
in Upholding the Canadian Military
2015–
Emrah Keshkin, PhD student
Topic: Transitional justice and public health in post-conflict zones
2013–
Ardythe Harder, MA candidate thesis stream
Title: The Role of Narrative in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
2012–13
Bailey Gerrits, MA candidate, JA Bombardier-CGS Scholarship recipient
Title: Sexual Violence in post-Apartheid South Africa
2013–
Supervisory committee: Tony Bislimi, PhD student
Title: The Politics of International State-Building: Kosovo and the
Emergence of Servile Elites
2013–
Supervisory committee: Nicole Lugosi, PhD candidate
Title: Nationalist Narratives and Democratic Development in Hungary
2012–
Supervisory committee: Yongjie Wang, PhD student
Title: An Intersectional Approach for Understanding Women’s
Empowerment: A Study of Poor Rural Migrant Women Factory Workers
in Nansha EPZ, Guangzhou, China
Undergraduate supervision
2015–
Elisa Carbonaro, BA Honours
Topic: Post-conflict reconstruction and gender-based violence
2015–
Renee Theberge, BA Honours
Topic: Syrian refugee crisis
2011–12
Bailey Gerrits, BA Honours
Title: Lazy Activism, ‘Corrective’ Rape and the Law: An Analysis of the
2010 Change.org Petition and its Impact on Mobilization in South Africa
2010–11
Jeannine Wilson, BA Honours
Title: Haiti from the Ground Up: Ethics of Care and Education
Development Goals in post-Crisis Haiti
2013
Emma Kent, special undergraduate field research project in Cuba; funded
through the University of Alberta Undergraduate Research Initiative Title:
Mass Organizations and Women's Participation in Development: A Cuban
Case Study
2011
Advisory committee member: Kevin Holowac, Individualized Major
Topic: International development
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Courses developed and taught
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
POL S 261: Introduction to International Relations, lecture course (forthcoming 2016)
POL S 660: Theories of International Politics, core graduate course (2009, 2010, 2011,
2015)
POL S 690: Gender and Politics, core graduate course (2010, 2011, 2013)
POL S 445: Identity and Ethnic Conflict, seminar course (2010, 2011, forthcoming 2015)
POL S 459 / 560 / 566: Gender, Conflict & Security, seminar course (2009, 2011, 2013,
2015)
Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
POL S 467: International Political Economy, seminar course (2007)
Teaching impact: In addition to the use of my textbook chapter in undergraduate
classrooms, some of my other publications are included on university syllabi for courses
such as: POLS 400: Constitutions, Conflict, and Transition (2013 Queen’s University,
Canada); POLS 468: The International Relations of the Middle East (2014 Queen’s
University, Canada); and the post-graduate course: Northern Ireland and the World
(2009–10; 2011–12 Queen’s University, Northern Ireland).
Recent research grants
2015
Principle Investigator, Kule Institute for Advanced Study, Dialogue Grant,
Symposium: Ethnicity and Gender in the Borderlands: $2,000
2014–19
Principle Investigator, SSHRC Insight Grant, Gender, Peace and PowerSharing Practices in Political Transitions: $182,438
2011–17
Principle Investigator, SSHRC Insight Development Grant, CODEPINK
Alert! Transitional Feminist Peace Activism in the Post-9/11 Period:
$34,411
2011
Endowment Fund for the Future Competition: $4,933
2011
Endowment Fund for the Future Support for the Advancement of
Scholarship Research Fund (SAS): $1,350
Other fellowships and awards
2008 Queen’s Centre for International Relations Travel Grant: $1,000
2006/7 Ontario Graduate Scholarship: $15,000
2006 Graduate Research Grant, Ethnicity & Democratic Governance Project: $3,680
2006 Graduate Dean’s Travel Grant for Doctoral Research: $3,000
2006 Timothy Franks Travel Research Award: $3,000
2005
Ireland-Canada Scholar, Ireland Canada University Foundation: $8,000
2005 R. Samuel McLaughlin Fellowship: $10,000
2004 Rabin Scholar, Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University: $10,000 US
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2004 Morgan Brown Scholarship, Queen's: $10,000
2004 Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University Award, Queen's: $4,500
2003 Franklin and Helene Bracken Fellowship, Queen's: $10,000
2001; 2003; 2005–06 Queen's Graduate Award: $1,000; $2,000; $1,025; $2,900
Publications
(2016 forthcoming) ‘Gender, Feminism, and the Global Political Economy,’ in
Christopher Kukucha and Greg Anderson (eds.), Global Political Economy (Oxford
University Press), 54–71.
(2016 forthcoming) ‘Gender, Peace and Power-Sharing in Political Transitions,’ with
Allison McCulloch in Allison McCulloch and John McGarry (eds.), Power-Sharing:
Empirical and Normative Challenges, London: Routledge.
(2014) ‘Troubled Engagement in Ethnicized Conflict: Negotiating Difference Among
Feminist Activists in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland,’ International Feminist
Journal of Politics 16 (1), 106–26.
(2013) 'International Relations and the Global,' in Janine Brodie, Sandra Rein, and
Malinda S. Smith (eds.), Critical Concepts: An Introduction to Politics, 5th ed. (Toronto:
Pearson), 182–95.
(2012) 'Gender, Representation and Power-Sharing in Post-Conflict Institutions,' with
Allison McCulloch, International Peacekeeping 19 (5), 565–80.
(2010) 'Framing Post-9/11 Security: Tales of Securitization of the State and of the
Experiences of Muslim Communities,' in Bruno Charbonneau and Wayne Cox (eds.),
Locating Global Order: American Power and Canadian Security After 9/11 (Vancouver
and Toronto: UBC Press), 167–82.
(2010) 'Identity Politics and Women: Struggling for Peace at the Margins of the IsraeliPalestinian Conflict,' in Dan Avnon and Yotam Benziman (eds.), Plurality and
Citizenship in Israel: Moving Beyond the Jewish/Palestinian Civic Divide (London and
New York: Routledge), 205–20.
(2009) 'Women and the Transition from Conflict in Northern Ireland: Lessons for PeaceBuilding in Israel/Palestine,' IBIS Working Papers; 89 (Dublin: Institute for British-Irish
Studies, University College Dublin), 1–18.
(2006) 'Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Horn: Reducing the Demand,' with
Kifflemariam Grebrewold in Dorina A. Bekoe (ed.), East Africa and the Horn:
Confronting Challenges to Good Governance (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner), 21–
36.
Conference presentations and invited talks
(2015 forthcoming) Power-sharing Pacts and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda:
Constructive Engagements (Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, November 67). This is an international workshop that I am organizing with my colleague Dr. Allison
McCulloch as part of our SSHRC research project. We have invited an impressive roster
of more than 15 leading academics, practitioners and graduate students working in the
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areas of international law and conflict resolution. In addition to setting the agenda and
moderating the discussion, I am delivering a paper based on my new empirical research
titled ‘Gendering Power-sharing Theory.’
(2015) ‘The War on Terror and the Refugee Crisis,’ Edmonton Peace Festival
(University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, September 30). This talk was part of a special
academic-community panel I organized in association with Women in International
Security Canada.
(2015) ‘Teaching (at) the ‘End of International Relations,’ Prairie Political Science
Association Annual Conference (Banff, Alberta, September 11-13). This paper was part
of a special panel I organized with Drs. Rob Aitken and Greg Anderson.
(2015) ‘Gender, Peace and Power-Sharing in Political Transitions’ with A. McCulloch,
International Studies Association Conference (New Orleans, February 18–21).
(2014) ‘War and Peace Camps in Feminist International Relations.’ I was invited to
present this paper and participate in a workshop titled Challenging the ‘Women and
Peace’ Hypothesis: New Approaches to Gender Roles in Peace-Making hosted by the
Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University (Hebrew
University, Jerusalem, June 16–18).
(2013) 'Teaching International Relations/International Political Economy: A Gendered
Perspective,' Prairie Political Science Association Annual Conference (Banff Centre,
Alberta, September 13–15).
(2013) 'Women and Political Transition in Afghanistan,' Canadian Political Science
Association Annual Conference (University of Victoria, June 4–6). This paper was part of
a special panel I organized with Drs. Allison McCulloch and Rebecca Graff-McRae.
(2012) 'CODEPINK and the Israeli Palestinian Conflict,' Canadian Political Science
Association Annual Conference (University of Alberta, June 13–15).
(2011) 'Has UNSCR 1325 Made a Difference? A Gendered Examination of PowerSharing Practices' with A. McCulloch. We were invited to present a paper and participate
in a workshop titled Power-Sharing: Empirical and Normative Critiques hosted at the
Munk School of Global Affairs (University of Toronto, November 18–19).
(2011) 'Power-Sharing, Peacebuilding and Gender: A Framework for Conflict Resolution'
with A. McCulloch, Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference (Wilfrid
Laurier University, May 16–18).
(2011) 'Women and Post-Conflict Transitions: Lessons from Northern Ireland for the
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process,' International Studies Association Conference
(Montreal, March 16–19).
(2010) 'Feminist Peace Activism in the Post-9/11 Realm,' Peace & Justice Studies
Association Conference (University of Winnipeg and Menno Simons College, Winnipeg,
Manitoba, October 1–2).
(2010) 'CODEPINK Alert! Transnational Feminist Peace Activism and the IsraeliPalestinian Conflict.' I was invited to deliver the Annual Lecture for the Gender Frontiers
Speaker Series (Brandon University, Manitoba, September 30).
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(2010) 'Theorizing Identities in Conflict: The Case of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,'
Annual Conference of the Conflict Research Society: Peace and Conflict (Bradford
University, United Kingdom, September 6–8).
(2010) 'Transnational Feminist Peace Activism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,'
Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference (Concordia University,
Montreal, June 3).
(2010) ‘Mobilizing Against the Siege on Gaza: Representations of Gender in
Transnational Feminist Peace Movements,’ Department of Political Science Seminar
Series (University of Alberta, January 27).
(2009) ‘Women and Peace Activism. Case: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.’ I was
invited to deliver a lecture at the annual Seminar on the United Nations and International
Affairs (SUNIA), Nordegg, Alberta, August 27.
(2009) 'Identity Politics and Women’s Cross-community Organizations in Ethnicized
Conflict: The Cases of Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine,' Canadian Political Science
Association Annual Conference (Carleton University, Ottawa, May 28).
(2009) Roundtable: ‘Contemporary Women’s Activism and Conflict on the Island of
Ireland.’ I organized and chaired this roundtable discussion, which included feminist
peace activists from across the Island of Ireland and scholars and students from UCD and
SUNY Plattsburgh (John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, University College
Dublin, May 23).
(2009) 'Comparative Experiences of Feminist Activism across the Ethnonational Divide
in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine,' Situating Irishness: Fashioning Identity in Time
and Space (John Hume Institute, University College Dublin, May 19). Conference coorganizer and presenter.
(2009) 'Women and the Transition from Conflict in Northern Ireland: Lessons for PeaceBuilding in Israel/Palestine,' The Impact of Devolution on Everyday Life: 1999–2009
(Institute for British-Irish Studies, Dublin, Ireland, February 6).
(2009) ‘Learning from Feminist Peace Activism: Lessons for Conflict Resolution and
Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland,’ Ethnicity and Democratic
Governance Speaker Series (Queen’s University, Canada, January 8).
(2008) ‘Women’s Activism in Northern Ireland and Israel,’ Global Irish Studies Speaker
Series (University College Dublin, Ireland, November 11).
(2008) 'Framing Post-9/11 Security: The Experiences of Canadian Muslim Women,'
Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference (University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, June 6).
(2008) 'Framing Post-9/11 Security: The Experiences of Muslim Women in Canada and
the West,' Canadian Security into the 21st Century: (Re)articulations in the Post-9/11
World (Laurentian University, Sudbury, March 6).
(2007) 'Beyond the Ethnonational Divide: Identity Politics and Women in Northern
Ireland and Israel/Palestine,' Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference
(University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, May 31).
Other presentations
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(2015) Discussant, The Anniversary of the Maidan Revolution Symposium, Canadian
Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, March 9.
(2014) Guest on television news program Alberta Primetime. I discussed the ongoing
military crisis in Israel and Gaza, CTV News, July 23.
(2013) Discussant/chair, Trafficking of Women in Ukraine: Governmental and
Nongovernmental Responses, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of
Alberta, March 22.
Professional and administrative service
Director Certificate in Peace and Post-Conflict Studies
July 2010–present (excluding maternity leaves)
SSHRC IDG Adjudication Committee SSHRC, Ottawa video conference
May 6–8, 2015
Speaker Series Coordinator Department of Political Science
July 2013–July 2014; January 2015–July 2015
SSHRC IDG Peer Reviewer Faculty of Arts
December 2014. I participated in our own peer review process, providing detailed
comments on SSHRC applications for two colleagues in the Faculty.
Director, Board of Directors Canadian Political Science Association
June 2010–June 2013
CPSA Conference Steering Committee Department of Political Science
July 2010–September 2011
Graduate Committee Department of Political Science
July 2009–July 2010; July 2010–July 2011; January 2013–July 2013
Awards Adjudicator Faculty of Arts
April 2010; March 2011
Peer reviewer
I have served as an external peer reviewer for the SSHRC Insight grant competition and
for journals such as Canadian Journal of Political Science, Canadian Foreign Policy,
International Peacekeeping, Studies in Political Economy, and Citizenship Studies.
Other relevant experience
Queen’s University 2006/01–2007/01
Chair, Political Studies Graduate Student Association (PSGSA)
Queen's University 2006/05–2006/12
Research Assistant– Dr. John McGarry, Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Project
(EDG)
Queen's University 2005/09–2006/05
Research Assistant–Dr. Will Kymlicka, Department of Philosophy
Queen's University 2006/01–2006/05; 2003/09–2004/05; 2001/09–2002/05
Teaching Assistant–Department of Political Studies
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“Introduction to International Relations and International Political Economy.”
Frontier College, Kingston, ON, Canada 2003–2004
Tutor–Prison Literacy Program for Women
Bonn International Center for Conversion, Bonn, Germany 2002/09–2003/05
Project Officer–Small Arms and Light Weight Weapons Project
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