Peter Ives
Title: Professor / Chair of Cultural Studies (as of July 1, 2024)
Phone: 204.786.9949
Office: 6L10
Building: Lockhart Hall
Email: p.ives@uwinnipeg.ca
Biography:
Peter R. Ives
Current Position
Professor, Political Science Department, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada
Appointed 2000. Tenure-track appointment commenced July 1, 2001. Tenured and promoted to Associate, July 1, 2005. Promoted to Full Professor, July 1, 2013.
Graduate Chair, Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Graduate Programme, July 1, 2024-June 30,
2026.
Chair, Philosophy Department, University of Winnipeg, January 1, 2019- December 31, 2021.
Acting Chair, Political Science Department, University of Winnipeg, July 1, 2013- June 30, 2014.
Education
PHD 1998. Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University, Toronto.
MA 1993. Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University, Toronto.
BA 1991. Political Science. Reed College, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
Year 1, in 3-year programme in Icelandic Philology 1990-1, Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland)
Intermediate Italian, July-August, 1994, Università per Stranieri di Perugia (University of Perugia for Foreigners), Perugia, Italy
Publications
Books (all peer reviewed)
Peter Ives, Rethinking Free Speech. Winnipeg/Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2024. Forthcoming.
Thomas Ricento, Yael Peled and Peter Ives, eds., Language Policy and Political Theory: Building Bridges, Assessing Breaches. New York: Springer, 2015. 212 pages.
Peter Ives and Rocco Lacorte, eds., Gramsci, Language and Translation. Lanham, MD.: Lexington, 2010. 326pp.
Peter Ives, Gramsci’s Politics of Language: Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. 238 pp. Winner of the Raymond Klibansky Book Prize awarded by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences for the Best English-language book in the Humanities funded by the Aid to Scholarly Publication Programme, 2004-5. Paperback edition, 2006.
Peter Ives, Language and Hegemony in Gramsci. London: Pluto Press, 2004. 204 pp.
Translated into Turkish, Ekrem Ekici, trans. İstanbul: Kalkedon Yayinlari, 2011.
Translated into Mandarin, Yonghu Li, trans, Social Sciences Academic Press, 2018.
Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
Peter Ives, “Gramsci and ‘Global English,’” Rethinking Marxism 31, 1 (2019), pp.58-71.
Peter Ives, “Canadian Language Politics in Global and Theoretical Contexts,” in Thomas Ricento, ed., Language Politics and Policies: Perspectives from Canada and the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp.78-94
Peter Ives, “Language and the State in Western Political Theory: Implications for Language Policy and Planning,” in James W. Tollefson and Miguel Pérez-Milans, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp.183-201. Winner of the 2019 BAAL (British Assoc. of Applied Linguistics) Book Prize.
Peter Ives, “Global English and Marx’s General Intellect,” Key Words 14, 2016, pp.82-97.
Peter Ives, “Language and Collective Identity: Theorizing Complexity,” in Christina Späti, ed., Language and Identity Politics: A Cross-Atlantic Perspective. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016, pp.17-37.
Peter Ives, “Global English and Inequality: The Contested Ground of Linguistic Power,” in Ruanni Tupas, ed., Unequal Englishes: The Politics of Englishes Today. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp.74-91.
Peter Ives, “Global English and the Limits of Liberalism: Confronting Global Capitalism and Challenges to the Nation-State,” in Thomas Ricento, ed., Language Policy and Political Economy: English in a Global Context. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015,
pp.48- 71.
Peter Ives, “Language Policies, Globalization and Global English: Bringing the State Back In,”
in Linda Cardinal and Selma Sonntag, eds., State Traditions and Language Regimes. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015, pp.97-116.
Peter Ives, “Language, State and Global Capitalism: ‘Global English’ and Historical Materialism,” in Tina Mai Chen and David Churchill, eds., The Material of World History. New York: Routledge, 2015, pp.35-50.
Peter Ives, “De-Politicizing Language: Obstacles to Political Theory’s Engagement with Language Policy,” Language Policy 13, 4 (November 2014), Thematic Issue edited by Thomas Ricento, Yael Peled and Peter Ives, pp.335-350.
Reprinted in Thomas Ricento, Yael Peled and Peter Ives, eds., Language Policy and Political Theory: Building Bridges, Assessing Breaches. New York: Springer, 2015. Pages 41-56.
Reprinted in Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson, eds., Language Rights. London: Routledge, 2016. Pages 132-48.
Peter Ives and Nicola Short, “Gramsci and the International: A Textual Analysis” Review of International Studies, 39, 3 (July 2013), pp.621-42.
Peter Ives, “Gramsci’s Writings: Genuine versus Exaggerated Obstacles to Learning from the Prison Notebooks,” in Forum, “Gramsci for the Twenty-first Century,” ed. by Marlies Glasius, International Studies Review 14 (2012), pp.681-5.
Peter Ives, “Cosmopolitanism and Global English: Language Politics in Globalisation Debates,” Political Studies 58 (2010), pp.516-35.
Peter Ives, “Global English, Hegemony and Education: Lessons from Gramsci,” Educational Philosophy and Theory, 41, 6 (2009), pp.661-83.
Reprinted in Peter Mayo, ed., Gramsci and Educational Thought, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp.78-99.
Published in Italian as “«Global English» ed educazione. Insegnamenti gramsciani,” Critica marxista, nuova serie, 3-4 (May-August 2010), pp.43-51.
Marcus Green and Peter Ives, “Subalternity and Language: Overcoming the Fragmentation of Common Sense,” Historical Materialism 17 (2009), pp.3-30.
Reprinted in Peter Ives & Rocco Lacorte, eds., Gramsci, Language and Translation, Lanham, MD.: Lexington, 2010, pp.289-312.
Peter Ives, “Global English: Linguistic Imperialism or Lingua Franca?” Studies in Language and Capitalism, 1 (1), 2006. Pp. 121-41.
Reprinted in John E. Joseph, ed., Language and Politics, Vol. 4. London: Routledge, 2010.
Reprinted in Ingrid Piller & Alexandra Grey, eds., Language and Globalization: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Volume 1. London: Routledge, forthcoming 2018.
Peter Ives, “Language, Agency and Hegemony: A Gramscian Response to Post-Marxism,” Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy 8, 4 (December 2005), pp.455-69.
Reprinted in John E. Joseph, Language and Politics, Vol. 3, London: Routledge, 2010.
Reprinted in Andreas Bieler & Adam Morton, eds., Images of Gramsci. London, Routledge, 2006. Pp.61-74.
Published in Spanish as, “Lenguaje y hegemonía: una respuesta gramsciana al postmarxismo” in Poder y Hegemonia Hoy: Gramsci en la Era Global, trans. Rosana Renau, ed. Dora Kanoussi (Mexico City: Plaza y Valdés Editores, 2005).
Peter Ives, “Language, Representation and Supra-State Democracy: Questions facing the European Union,”in Representation and Democratic Theory, David Laycock, ed., Vancouver, UBC Press, 2004. Pp.23-47.
Peter Ives, “Translating Revolution: Gramsci’s Linguistic Metaphors,” Counter-Hegemony, No.3, Spring 2000, pp.36-45.
Published in Portuguese as, “Traduzindo a revolução: as metáforas lingüísticas de Gramsci” Novos Rumos 46, 2006, pp.11-22,
Peter Ives, “A Grammatical Introduction to Gramsci’s Political Theory,” Rethinking Marxism, Vol.10, No.1, Spring 1998, pp.30-47.
Reprinted in James Martin, ed., Antonio Gramsci: Critical Assessments, Vol.3. London: Routledge, 2001, pp.212-30.
Peter Ives, “The Grammar of Hegemony,” Left History, Vol.5, No.1, Spring 1997, pp.85-104.
Reprinted in James Martin, ed., Antonio Gramsci: Critical Assessments, Vol.2. London: Routledge, 2001, pp.319-36.
Published in Italian as, “La grammatica dell’egemonia,” Americanismi: Sulla ricezione del pensiero di Gramsci negli Stati Uniti, Mauro Pala, ed., Cagliari: Centro di Studi Filologici Sardi, 2009, pp.47-70.
Non-Peer Reviewed Articles, Chapters, Introductions, Entries and Reviews
Peter Ives, Review of Giuseppe Vacca, Alternative Modernities: Antonio Gramsci’s Twentieth Century, in Rethinking Marxism 36, 1 (2024), pp.131-34.
Peter Ives, Review of Jean-Yves Frétigné: To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci, in The Review of Politics 85, 4II (Fall 2023), pp. 589-92, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670523000402
Peter Ives and Eve Haque, “What is Québec’s Bill 32 on academic freedom, and why does it matter?” The Conversation, June 1, 2022, https://theconversation.com/what-is-quebecs-bill-32-on-academic-freedom-and-why-does-it-matter-183122
Peter Ives, “Why ‘Free Speech’ Needs a New Definition in the Age of the internet and Trump Tweets,” The Conversation, January 11, 2021, https://theconversation.com/why-free-speech-needs-a-new-definition-in-the-age-of-the-internet-and-trump-tweets-152919
Republished in Salon.com; January 18, 2021, https://www.salon.com/2021/01/17/why-free-speech-needs-a-new-definition-in-the-age-of-the-internet-and-trumpist-tweets_partner/
Peter Ives, “Global English in the Wake of the Collapse of Globalism,” Alternate Routes 31, 1, (2020), pp.219-230, https://alternateroutes.ca/index.php/ar/article/view/22516.
Website Research Portal, Global English Education: https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/global-english-education/index.html
Peter Ives, review of Political Economy and Sociolinguistics by David Block in Journal of Sociolinguistics 22/5 (2018), pp.608-616.
Peter Ives, review of Gramsci’s Common Sense by Kate Crehan, Contemporary Political Theory 17, (2018).
Peter Ives, “The Missing Language Question in Globalization Debates: A Gramscian Approach to ‘Global English,’” in Derek Boothman, ed., La traduzione come luogo di incontro e di discontro [Translation as a space of meeting and confrontation]. Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2017, pp.47-76.
Peter Ives, review of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Politics of Recognition by Glenn Coulthard, Rethinking Marxism 28, 1 (2016), pp.139-42.
Angela Failler, Peter Ives & Heather Milne, “Introduction: Caring for Difficult Knowledge—Prospects for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights,” The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 37, 2-3 (April-August 2015), pp.100-105.
Yael Peled, Peter Ives & Thomas Ricento, “Introduction to the Thematic Issue: Language Policy and Political Theory,” Language Policy 13, 4 (2014), pp.1-6.
Entry for ‘hegemony’ in Michael Ryan, ed., The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Marcus Green and Peter Ives, Review Essay of Joseph Francese, ed. Perspectives on Gramsci: Politics, Culture and Social Theory and Mark McNally and John Schwarzmantel, eds. Gramsci and Global Politics: Hegemony and Resistance, in Rethinking Marxism, Volume 23, Number 2, 2011, pp.282-91.
Review of Christian Marazzi, Capital and Language, in Capital & Class 35, 1 (2011), pp.154-6.
Peter Ives and Rocco Lacorte, “Introduction: Translating Gramsci on Language, Translation and Politics,” in Peter Ives & Rocco Lacorte, eds., Gramsci, Language and Translation, Lanham, MD.: Lexington, 2010, pp.1-15.
Entries for ‘esperanto,’ ‘grammatica,’ ‘metafora,’ and ‘prestigio,’ in Guido Liguori and Pasquale Voza, eds., Dizionario Gramsciano 1926-1937. Rome: Carocci Editore, 2009, pp. 283-4, 367-71, 534-6, 665.
Peter Ives, “Prestige, Faith and Dialect: Expanding Gramsci’s Engagement,” – a response to the book symposium on my book, Gramsci’s Politics of Language constituting three engagements by Jacinda Swanson, Kerim Friedman and Stefano Selenu, in Rethinking Marxism 21, 3 (2009), pp.366-74.
Review of Jean-Jacques Lecercle, A Marxist Philosophy of Language in Capital & Class 32, 3, (2008), pp.162-66.
Review of Darrow Schechter, Beyond Hegemony, in The European Legacy 12, 2 (2007), pp.259-60.
Peter Ives, “The Mammoth Task of Translating Gramsci.” Rethinking Marxism 18, 1 (Winter 2006).
Reprinted in Marcus E. Green, ed., Rethinking Gramsci (New York: Routledge, 2011).
Entry for the term ‘grammatik’ in the Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Vol. 5. Edited by Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Hamburg, Argument Verlag, 2001, pp.936-44.
Reprinted and translated from German into English in Historical Materialism, 13, 4 (Fall 2005).
Peter Ives, “Three Interventions on Cultural Difference, Language, Theory and Progressive Politics: A Review Essay,” Studies in Political Economy, vol.68, Autumn, 2002, pp.107-26.
Recent Media
Peter Ives and Noah Schulz, “Don’t Confuse Charter Rights with Academic Freedom,” Winnipeg Free Press, March 27, 2023, https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/2023/03/27/dont-confuse-charter-rights-with-academic-freedom
CBC Radio interview, Information Radio, January 8, 2021, “The Tweet May Not Be Mightier than the Sword,” 7:50-7:58am.
770 CHQR Global News radio interview, Calgary, January 13, 2021, “Freedom of Speech,” 7:45-7:55am
570 News interview, Kitchener Today with Brian Bourke, January 14, 2021, 1:35-1:45pm, Free Speech
Newstalk 1010, Toronto, with Dave Trafford, January 17, 2021, 8:08-8:15am, Free Speech
On-Line Working Paper
Peter Ives, “Managing or Celebrating Linguistic Diversity in the E.U.?” Note de recherche 03/04, Institut d’études europèennes Université de Montréal/ McGill, 2005. http://www.iee.umontreal.ca/pubicationsfr_fichiers/COLLOQUE‑2004/IvesIESfinal.pdf
Keynote Addresses and Invited Talks
“Conflating Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech,” invited panelist, “Within and Against Academic Freedom,” a one-day conference organized by the Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto, Nov. 23, 2018.
“Gramsci, Language Politics and Hegemony,” invited keynote, for the conference, "Antonio Gramsci: A Legacy for the Future?" organized by the Department of Humanities, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, October 19-21, 2018.
“Gramsci, Language Politics and Hegemony,” invited panelist, Le rayonnement de la pensée italienne, organized by Institut Italien de Culture de Montréal and Université Quebec a Montréal (UQAM), Montréal, Nov. 2, 2018.
“Canadian Language Politics in Global and Theoretical Contexts,” one of fourteen invited presentations to the international symposium, “Language and Politics in the United States and Canada: Taking Stock on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation,” organized by Tom Ricento, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, June 7-10, 2017, The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta, Canada.
“Gramsci e l’inglese globale” [Gramsci and Global English], invited presentations to “Egemonia e Modernità: Il Pensiero di Gramsci in Italia e nella Cultura Internazionale: Convegno internazionale di studi in occasione dell’80° anniversario della morte di Antonio Gramsci, [Hegemony and Modernity: The thought of Gramsci in Italy and in International Culture: An International Conference on the Occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the Death of Antonio Gramsci], Fondazione Gramsci, International Gramsci Society Italia, and Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. Rome, Italy (Palazzo Mattei in Paganica, Piazza della Enciclopedia Italiana, 4), May 17-20, 2017.
“The Politics of Global English: A Gramscian Perspective,” invited presentations for “Modern Languages, Global English and the Future of the EU: An international workshop organized by the Institute of Modern Languages Research (University of London), In association with Senate House Library (University of London) and the Fondazione Istituto Gramsci (Rome),” September 21, 2016, Senate House, London, England.
“Gramsci, linguaggio, egemonia e il problema della ‘lingua madre’” [Gramsci, language, hegemony and the problem of the ‘mother tongue’], an invited presentation for “Antonio Gramsci dall’Italia al mondo Semantica e fortuna dei ‘Quaderni del carcere,’” organized by Dipartimento di scienze politiche e sociali, Università di Bologna, Italia. January 16, 2016, presented in Italian.
“Theorizing the Non-Nativeness of Global English: Gramscian Reflections on Spontaneity and Standardization in Language.” Jackman Institute Colloquium “English as a World Language,” University of Toronto, May 8, 2014.
“Language Policy at the Centre of the 21st Century: Liberalism, Multiculturalism, the State and Global Capitalism,” keynote address (one of three) at “Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning,” Faculty of Education, University of Calgary, September 6-8, 2012.
“Linguistic Turns not Taken, or, the Importance of Gramsci,” invited presentation at “Empires of Language,” Romance Studies Department, Duke University, April 26, 2012.
“Theorizing the Politics of ‘Global English,’ invited lecture presented to the Language & Literacy Colloquy as part of the Language & Literacy PhD specialization in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University, Jan. 26, 2010 (presented over video-link).
“Language and Collective Identity: Theorizing Complexity,” invited lecture at the international colloquium on Language and Identity Politics in Europe and North America, sponsored by McGill University-Université de Montréal European Union Centre of Excellence (EUCE) and the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, and the Swiss National Science Foundation, June 12, 2009.
“The Politics of Language, Globalization and Democracy,” talk co-sponsored by the Political Science Department and the School of Literature and Languages, University of Guelph, March 19, 2009.
“Cosmopolitan Anxieties and Global English,” Philosophy Seminar Series, Queen Mary London University, 13 February, 2008.
“The Missing Language Question in Globalisation Debates,” Research in Progress Series, Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex, U.K., 21 January, 2008 and Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ), Nottingham University, 18 February, 2008.
“The Politics of English as a Global Language,” presented at Traduzione come luogo di incontro e di scontro, Dipartmento del studi interdisciplinari su traduzione, lingue e culture, dall’Università degli Studi di Bologna – Alma Mater (University of Bologna), Italy, December, 2007.
The International Gala Conference, Rethinking Marxism 06, hosted a book panel on my book, Gramsci’s Politics of Language, the panelists include Benedetto Fontana (CUNY), Jacinda Swanson (Western Michigan University) and P. Kerim Friedman (National Dong Hua University, Taiwan). Oct. 28, 2006; I was the respondent. This symposium is now published in Rethinking Marxism, see above.
Managing or Celebrating Linguistic Diversity in the E.U.?” presented at the 4th Annual Colloquium “Multiple Diversities/ European Experiences” sponsored by the Institute for European Studies, University of Montreal & McGill University), Oct. 1, 2004. Invited participant. See on-line working paper above.
Conference Presentations (selected)
“Multilingualism, Intelligibility and Hegemony,” presented at “The Politics of Multilingualism: Possibilities and Challenges,” a conference organized at the Amsterdam School for Transnational, Regional and European Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Organized by ARTES (artes.uva.nl), ISPA’s RC50 (rc50.ipsa.org) and MIME (mime-project.org). May 22-24, 2017.
“Antonio Gramsci and Ontological Multilingualism: ‘…in language there is no parthenogenesis,’” paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, March 20, 2017.
“Against English as the New Esperanto: Language, Inequality and Global Capitalism,” presented at International Political Science Association (IPSA), World Congress, Research Committee 50: The Politics of Language, Poznan, Poland, July 28, 2016.
“Gramsci and Bourdieu: A Closer Look at Language and Politics,” presented at Conferencia de Estudios Gramscianos sponsored by Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, International Gramsci Society, Fondazione Istituto Gramsci and Catedra Alfonzo Velez Pliego, Puebla, Mexico, December 3, 2014.
“The Role of States in the Advent of Global English: Commodification and Nation-Building, Overlaps and Tensions” presented at International Political Science Association (IPSA), World Congress, Research Committee 50: The Politics of Language, Montreal, July 22, 2014.
“Analyzing Language Policies in the Context of Globalization and Global English: Bringing the State Back In,” presented at “Traditions Étatiques et Régimes Linguistiques: Un État des Lieux/State Traditions and Linguistic Regimes: State of the Art,” Organized by Research Committee 50: Language and Politics, International Political Science Assoc., September 9-10, 2011, Université d’Ottawa
“Gramsci’s Internationalism: Against Cosmopolitanism and Economism,” with Nicola Short
(York University), British International Studies Association, Manchester, U.K., April 29, 2011.
“Gramsci and the International: A Textual Analysis,” with Nicola Short (York University), Standing Group in International Relations (SGIR) of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Stockholm, Sweden, September 11, 2010. Presented by coauthor at the conference.
“Language ‘Hegemony’: A More Gramscian Approach to World Englishes and Lingua Franca,” at the International Association of World Englishes, Annual Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C., July 24, 2010.
“Our Language Question: Gramsci, the State-System and Global Capitalism,” Political Studies Association (U.K.), 59th Annual Meetings, Manchester, England, April 7, 2009.
“Prescribing Multilingualism? Language and Language Policy in the European Union,” at the conference, Linguistic Prescriptivism and Patriotism: From Nationalism to Globalizations, New College, University of Toronto, Aug. 17-19, 2009.
“Cosmopolitan Anxieties and the Role of the State in Linguistic Hegemony,” presented at the 3rd International Gramsci Society Conference, Sardinia, May 6, 2007. Presentation posted at: http://www.gramscitalia.it/html/ives.pdf
“Global English: Linguistic Imperialism or Lingua Franca?” presented at the 10th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University of Malta, Msida, Malta, July 27, 2006.
“Global English and Gramsci’s Materialist Approach to Language” presented at “Antonio Gramsci: Materialism and Culture,” Italian Studies Department, University of Toronto, October 15, 2005.
“Language, Agency and Hegemony: A Gramscian Response to Post-Marxism,” 3rd International Conference on Gramscian Studies, Autonomous University of Puebla, Puebla Mexico, Oct. 7-10, 2003.
“Language and European Unification,” Workshop on Identity and Representation in an Integrated Europe, Carleton University, May 9-10, 2002, presented by Centre for European Studies, Carleton University.
“The Concept of Grammar in Marxism,” The Berlin Institute for Critical Theory, International Conference on Justice / Violence / Hegemony, Berlin, Germany, June 3, 2000.
RESEARCH FUNDING AND AWARDS (Selected)
University of Winnipeg, Travel Grant for $2,000 to present paper in Amsterdam, “Politics of Multilingualism,” conference, May 22-24, 2017.
SSHRC Insight Development Grant, “How States Promote Global English: Shifting Priorities in Education Policy,” primary applicant, with co-applicants, Eve Haque (York) and Jeff Bale (OISIE/Univ. of Toronto), June 2016-May 2019, $64,999.
University of Winnipeg, Travel Grant for $2,000 to present paper in Poznan, at the World Congress of the International Political Science Assoc., July 26-28, 2016.
University of Winnipeg, Major Research Grant, “Global English in Francophone Countries’ Education Systems,” December 2015-December 2016, extended to December 2017, $7,163.00.
University of Winnipeg, Discretionary Grant for $1,000 to hire Lauren Bosc as editor and assistant for our Special Issue of the Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies 37, 2-3, 2015.
University of Winnipeg, Travel Grant for $1,820 to present ‘Gramsci and Bourdieu’ in Puebla, Mexico at the conference listed above. December 2014.
Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant, ‘Language & Democracy in the European Union.’ ($41,000 + teaching reduction), 2007-2010.
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, 2007-2008.
University of Winnipeg Travel Grant, Destination, Malta, July 2006, $2000.
University of Winnipeg Discretionary Grant for translation for my co-edited book collection, Gramsci, Language and Translation, 2006, $750.
Raymond Klibansky Prize for the best English-language book in the Humanities subvented by the Aid to Scholarly Publication Programme funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, 2005, $1000.
Co-Recipient (with Parvin Ghorayshi) of the Erica and Arnold Rogers Award for Excellence in Research, University of Winnipeg, 2004. $1000.
University of Winnipeg Discretionary Grant to pay for the index of my book, Language and Hegemony in Gramsci, $735, 2004.
Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada, New Scholars Grant,(administered through University of Winnipeg, Tri-Council Programme), 2002-3, $2000.
Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada, Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2001-3, $75,000. Declined to take up tenure-track appointment at University of Winnipeg.
University of Manitoba, Institute for the Humanities, Research Affiliate, 1999-2000.
ADMINISTRATION AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selected)
Member of the Jury for the International Sormani Prize for a work on Gramsci, Fall 2017, http://www.gramscitorino.it/premi-sormani/premio-gramsci.html
SSHRC IDG adjudication committee, Political Science & Public Administration, Spring 2017
ARP Books, Member of the Collective Editorial Board, 2005-2016
External Assessment, Duke University, Professor of the Practice, Department of Romance Studies, 2016.
University of Winnipeg Committee for Tenure/Promotion and Continuing Appointment Committee, 2016, Philosophy Dept. Application for Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, and Political Science Application to Full Professor.
External Assessment for University of Lethbridge, University Scholar Award, Social Science, Spring 2014.
Lifetime Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, U.K., 2008-present
Editorial Board Member, Rethinking Marxism, 2010-2018
Book Review Co-Editor, Rethinking Marxism, July 2012-2017
Editorial Board Member, International Gramsci Journal, 2007- 2012
Series Co-Editor, Reading Gramsci, Pluto Press, 2009- present
Editorial Collective Member, Arbeiter Ring Publishers (ARP) 2005- 2016
This five member volunteer board and one staff person publishes about four books a year. I have acted as acquiring and publishing editor for books by Canadian scholars; Jila Ghomeshi (Univ. of Manitoba), Peter Kulchyski (Univ. Manitoba), Greg Elmer (Ryerson) and Ian Angus (SFU). See www.arbeiterring.ca
Jury Member, Raymond Klibansky Book Prize, 2006-07
External Referee, Tenure & Promotion Application, School of Communications, University of Denver, 2011
External Reviewer, SSHRC (SRG and MRI), 2007, 2009, 2010, 2016.
External Reviewer for European Science Foundation, ‘Future in Research – 2012’ major research project, 3 primary investigators, 100 page application, May 2012.
Article manuscript reviews for Critical Discourse Studies (2012), British Journal of Politics and International Relations (2009), Capital & Class (2009, 2010), International Gramsci Journal (2009-10), Rethinking Marxism (2004-present), Globalizations (2016, 2017), Constellations (2017); Journal of Politics (2017), Comparative Politics (2015), Journal of Language, Identity and Education (2017), Language Policy (2016), Philosophy and Social Criticism (2014, 2015),
Book manuscript and proposal reviews, Fernwood (2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012), Routledge (2010, 2012), Historical Materialism Series at Brill (2012); Pluto (2009), Rowman & Littlefield (2009)
University of Winnipeg, Humanities & Social Sciences College of Reviewers, May 2011-present
University of Winnipeg, Advisory Group on Faculty Gender Equity: Presidential Task Force on University Renewal, Member, 2013-14.
University of Winnipeg, Senate Member, 2013-2014, 2010-2012; 2005-07
University of Winnipeg, Senate Ethics Committee, 2005-2007
University of Winnipeg, Research/Study Leave Committee, 2008-10
University of Winnipeg, Student Awards Committee, 2010-2012
University of Winnipeg, Dean of Arts Search Committee, Member, 2011-12
University of Winnipeg Faculty Association, Communications Committee, 2010-2012
University of Winnipeg, Academic Advisory Committee, Urban and Inner-City Studies, 2010- 2017
University of Winnipeg, Faculty Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2002-4
Acting Chair, Department of Politics, University of Winnipeg, July 1, 2013-June 30, 2014; August 10-17, 2012; August 12-17, 2011; June 1-14, 2010; May 25-June 5, June 15-July 14, 2009; March 12-16; April 18-22, 2008.
Chair, Department Timetabling Committee, 2009-2011; Member, 2011-2013
Chair, Departmental Personnel Committee (including hiring committees), Department of Politics, University of Winnipeg, 2006-7
Chair, Department Speakers Series, 2008-10
Chair, Department Curriculum Committee, 2004-6
Chari, Department Claudia Wright Essay Prize Committee, 2013- 2016, 2018-present
TEACHING
Courses Taught (selected)
Topics in Cultural Theory: Gramsci and Cultural Studies (GENG 7112/3)
Special Topics in Political Theory: Free Speech (POL-3216/3)
Topics in Local, National and Global Cultures: Theories of Language and Global Culture (GENG 7740/3)
Honours Seminar in Political Thought (including Charles Taylor, Will Kymlicka, Chantal Mouffe, Jürgen Habermas, Giorgio Agamben, Hardt & Negri, Glenn Coulthard, Jacques Ranciere) (POL 4215/6)
Introduction to Social & Political Philosophy (Plato through Arendt), (POL/PHIL 2200/6)
Reason & Revolution (focus on 18th C. European Political Thought – Rousseau, Kant, Wollstonecraft, Paine & Burke), (POL3205/3)
Liberals, Marxists & Anarchists (focus on 19th C. European Political Thought – JS Mill, Marx, Bakunin, Goldman), (POL3255/3)
Violence, Hegemony & The Rise of Mass Politics (focus on 20th C. Political Thought incl. Arendt, Fanon, Hayek, Gramsci, Lenin & Luxemburg), (POL3250/3)
Politics of Post-Modernism (POL3220/3)
Politics, Art & Popular Culture (POL3240/6)
Graduate Seminar in Sociological Theory: Marx, Durkheim, Weber (University of Manitoba), 2000-01.
Great Texts in the Humanities II (Simon Fraser University), Humanities, 1999
Introduction to Sociological Methods (Simon Fraser University), Sociology & Anthropology, 1999
Honours Thesis Committees
Sarah Leeson-Klym, (Student Designed Major), 2010-12
Ellen Smirl (Politics), 2010-11
Marc Kruse (Philosophy), 2009-10
Josina Robb (Philosophy) – 2007-08
Alana Lajoie-O’Malley (Student Designed Major), 2005-07
Daniel Blaikie (Philosophy) – 2007
Graduate Students Examination Committees
External Examiner, Heather Patrick, M.A. Religion, Joint-University of Winnipeg/University of Manitoba Programme, “Conjuring (Divine) Authority: The Myth of the ‘Found’ Text,” – August 20, 2018
External Examiner, Jonathan Luke, Ph.D., Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, York University, “Higher Education Policy, English Language Learning and Language Policy: An Ethnography of Brazilian STEM Scholarship Students in Canada” – June 20, 2017
External/Internal Examiner for Bethany Berrard, MA Joint Programme in Religious Studies (UW & UM), supervisor: Carlos Colorado, thesis title, “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Role of the Body in Canada’s Multicultural Religious Identity” – July 2015
External Examiner for Michael Volek, Ph.D., Department of English, University of British Columbia, “Speaking of Bakhtin: A Study of the Sociolinguistic Discourse on Bakhtin and Language,” May 2014.
Graduate Academic Advising
Kent Suss, 2016-2018, MA Cultural Studies
Justin Girard, 2010-11, MA Cultural Studies
Training Student Researchers (with SSHRC funding or UW Major Research Grant)
Jonathan Luke, Phd., (University of Toronto/ Seneca College), Sept. 2016-2019.
Yuliya Desyatova (OISE/Univ. of Toronto), January 2017-2019.
Ibtiseem Knouzi (OISE/Univ. of Toronto), Sept. 2016-2019.
Khaled Islaih (OISE/Univ. of Toronto), Sept. 2016-2019.
Yecid Ortega Paez (OISE/Univ. of Toronto), Sept. 2016-2019.
Ruomeng Zhang (Univ. of Winnipeg), January-February 2018
Juri Jong (Univ. of Winnipeg), Nov. 2017
Colleen Chau (Univ. of Winnipeg), Oct. 2017)
Jessica King (York), January-July 2017.
Aliraza Alidina, MA student, 2016
Adrienne Tessier, 2016-17
Justin Girard, 2010-11
Robert Froese, 2008-10
Matthew Gemmel, 2009-10
Brock Legge, 2009-10
Paul Willetts, 2004-05
Heather Beattie, 2001-02
Research Interests:
Political Theory/Political Philosophy/History of Political Thought/Feminism