Members
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Tari Ajadi (Political Science)Tari Ajadi is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research compares how Black activists in municipalities across Canada strategize to build durable coalitions towards justice. As a British-Nigerian immigrant to Canada, Tari’s goal is to produce research that supports and engages with the heterogenous experiences of Black communities across the country. He is a co-author of the Defunding the Police: Defining the Way Forward for HRM report released in January 2022. In addition, he is a frequent contributor and commentator on issues facing Black communities across Canada in both local and national media outlets. He is currently working on his first monograph, Between Uprisings: Black-led Community Organizations & The Fight for Self-Determination (McGill-Queen’s University Press, forthcoming). He holds a PhD and an MA from Dalhousie University in Canadian Politics. |
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Darin Barney (Art History & Communications)Darin Barney is Grierson Chair in Communication Studies in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies and associate member of the Bieler School of Environment at McGill University, where he teaches courses and advises graduate students in environmental communication, infrastructure studies, and critical energy studies. His research concerns the politics of energy, infrastructure and environment – current SSHRC-funded projects include “Bottom of the Barrel: The Material Rehabilitation of Oil Sands Bitumen,” a study of the politics of emerging non-combustion uses for oil sands bitumen and “Media Rurality,” an edited volume on the social, political and environmental impacts of energy and media infrastructures in rural settings (with Patrick Brodie, under review at Duke University Press). Recent publications include Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice (co-edited with Ayesha Vemuri, Minnesota 2022), “Solarity,” a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (co-edited with Imre Szeman, 2021), and several peer-reviewed chapters and articles on the politics of energy and its infrastructures, in books including Petrocultures: Oil Politics, Culture (MQUP 2017), Fueling Culture (Fordham 2017) Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond (WVUP 2019); Energized: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy and Environment (WVUP 2024), the Routledge Handbook of Energy Humanities (Routledge 2024) and journals including Heliotrope; Energy Humanities News; Journal of Environmental Media and the Canadian Journal of Communication. Prof. Barney is a member of the steering committee of the Petrocultures Research Group, a founding member of the After Oil Collective, a member of the McGill Centre for Innovation in Storage and Conversion of Energy and of Future Energy Systems at the University of Alberta. |
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Jacob Blanc (History/ISID)Dr Jake Blanc is an associate professor with a joint appoint in history and international development studies. His research and teaching explores the history of human rights, memory, and borderlands in Latin America, with a particular focus on Brazil. He is the author of Before the Flood: the Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil (Duke University Press, 2019), The Prestes Column: an Interior History of Modern Brazil (Duke University Press, 2024) and Searching for Memory: Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming 2025). He is the recipient of major fellowships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Foundation. |
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Cristina Carnemolla (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)Cristina Carnemolla is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies with a specialization in nineteenth-century literature and cultural history in the LLC department at McGill University. Her scholarship and teaching use the Global South as an axis that integrates Mediterranean and Transatlantic studies to explore the intersection of race relations, politics, and cultural production in Italy, Spain, and Latin America. A separate strand of her scholarly work focuses on eccentric Marxist thinkers in the 1930s such as Antonio Gramsci and José Carlos Mariátegui. She is part of the organizational committee of the "Rethinking Gramsci Conference" here in Montreal. |
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Barry Eidlin (Sociology)Barry Eidlin is Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University. He is a comparative historical sociologist interested in the study of class, politics, social movements, and social change. He is the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Other research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Politics & Society, Labor Studies Journal, Sociology Compass, and Labor History, among other venues. Writing for broader audiences has appeared in the Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, La Presse, Le Devoir, The Montreal Gazette, and Jacobin, among other venues, and his work commenting in various media outlets on labor politics and policy earned him the McGill University Changemaker Prize in 2024. Prior to embarking on his academic career, he spent several years as a union organizer, mainly with Teamsters for a Democratic Union. |
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Tania Islas Weinstein (Political Science)Tania Islas Weinstein is assistant professor of political science at McGill University. Her research and teaching focus on how art and aesthetics shape the way people experience the world as politically significant. This work has been published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and the Journal of Latin American Studies, among others. Tania recently published an edited volume titled Beyond Mestizaje: Contemporary Debates on Race in Mexico which compiles recent debates on the ways in which Mexicans interpret the world in racial terms and denounce racism. Tania also frequently collaborates with artists, including on the first translation into Spanish of the poems by jazz musician Sun Ra. Faculty profile | Personal website |
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Derek Nystrom (English)Derek Nystrom is an associate professor of film and cultural studies in the Department of English. He is the author of Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men: Class in 1970s American Cinema (Oxford UP, 2009). He has published essays in Cinema Journal, Postmodern Culture, Radical History Review, Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere, on topics ranging from American films that depict the afterlife of the 2008 economic crash to the music of the proto-punk band The Stooges. He is also the co-author and -editor, with Kent Puckett, of Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: A Conversation with Richard Rorty (Prickly Pear, 1998; reprinted as Prickly Paradigm #3, 2002). |
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Isabel Pike (Sociology)Isabel Pike is an assistant professor in McGill’s sociology department. Her research focuses on gender, development, and inequality, particularly in relation to knowledge and expertise. Her book project tracks the circulation of the contested narrative in Kenya that “the boy child has been forgotten.” Through media analysis, interviews, and ethnographic observation, the book examines how this narrative circulates in the media, how it resonates on the ground, and how NGOs and other policy actors put it into action. More broadly, the book is an exploration of how international development discourse shapes gender politics. |
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William Clare Roberts (Political Science)William Clare Roberts is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University, in Montreal. He is the author of Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital (2107). Recently, his essays have appeared in Jacobin, Radical Philosophy, Specter, Analyse und Kritik, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, The CLR James Journal, Contemporary Political Theory, and European Journal of Political Theory. He is currently at work on two book manuscripts: The Radical Politics of Freedom: Domination, Ideology, and Self-Emancipation, and Universal Emancipation and History: The Making and Unmaking of ‘History From Below.’ |
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Yves Winter (Political Science)Yves Winter is Associate Professor of Political Science. He teaches history of political thought and contemporary social and political theory. His research interests include Machiavelli, the history of Marxism, critical theory (Frankfurt School, post-war French thought, post-Marxism), and contemporary debates on power, violence, and domination. He is the author of Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence (Cambridge, 2018) as well as articles on violence, sovereignty, and political order. Currently, he is working on two research projects: a book on the idea of the political imaginary in relation to the concepts of ideology and utopia; and a series of articles on the afterlives of colonialism. |