BACKGROUND, AWARDS AND GRANTS

EDUCATION / PROMOTIONS

1991- Assistant, Associate (1995) and Professor (2002), St. Francis Xavier University

2001-02 Professeur invité, département de science politique, Université de Montréal

1989-91 Post-Doctoral Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh

1989 Ph.D. Université Laval (Québec city).

1986 Ph.D. student (exchange program), Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1985 M.A. Université Laval

1983 B.A. Université Laval

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2006-2007 President’s Research Award, St. Francis Xavier University

2002-2005 Research grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

2000-2001 Beca de Ensayo (essay grant), Fundación Octavio Paz, Mexico city.

1998-2001 Research grant, SSHRC.

1992-95 Research grant, SSHRC.

1994 Publication grant, Social Sciences Federation of Canada

1994 Publication grant, Fonds George-Henri Lesvèque

1991-92 Research grant, Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security.

1989-91 Post-doctoral fellowship, SSHRC.

1985-89 Doctoral fellowship, SSHRC.

SERVICE TO THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY

2007 Member, Board of Consulting Editors, History of Intellectual Culture

2007- Contributing Editor for the Mexican-American (bilingual: Spanish and English) journal Literal, Latin American Voices

2005- Chair, Allan J. MacEachern Lectures in Politics Committee

2005 Chair of the Program Committee, Annual conference of the Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association (APPSA), October, St. Francis Xavier University

2003-05 Board member, Allan J. MacEachen Lectures in Politics Committee

2003-05 Member of the Board of Directors, Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA)

2003-05 CPSA Representative to the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

2002 Evaluator for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Center of Canada (SSHRCC), Committee 11 (Political Science)

2002 Consultant to evaluate the International Studies Program, University of West Florida, USA.

2001 Panel Participant, 2000 Fitzgibbon Democracy Survey (initiated in 1945 by UCLA political science professor Russell H. Fitzgibbon)

2000 Evaluator for SSHRCC, Committee 11 (Political Science)

1999-01 Associate Managing Editor, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CJLACS)

1999 Advisor, project “Agrarian Structure, Agrarian Policies and Conflict in Mexico and Central America,” North/South Institute, Ottawa.

1997- Member of the Editorial Board of CJLACS.

1995-97 Editor of CJLACS.

1995- Member of the Editorial Board, of the Journal of Conflict Studies (Center for Conflict Studies, University of New Brunswick).

1993-95 Co-Editor, CJLACS

Administrative responsibilities at St. Francis Xavier University

2006-09 Nomination Committee, Chairs Selection Committee

2006 Dean of Arts Search Committee, St. Francis Xavier University

2003-09 Chair, Department of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University

1991- St. FX committees: University Council for Research (UCR), Handbook Committee, Senate Committee on Coady and Extension, Dean of Arts Search Committee, Canada Research Chair Search Committee

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1991- St. Francis Xavier University. Courses: Introduction to Political Science; Latin American Politics and Governments; American Politics and Government; Comparative Politics, Mexican Politics, Violence and Politics, Art and Politics, Seminar on Comparative Politics.

2001-02 Université de Montréal (Visiting Professor). Courses: graduate seminar on Art and politics; undergraduate course : Problèmes d’actualité I : violence et politique.

1989 Université Laval (professeur intérimaire, Winter). Courses: Violence, conflits et politique; Participation politique et démocratie; séminaire sur ‘les jeunes et la politique’.