Abigail B. Bakan, Queen’s University

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Department of Political Studies Professor Kingston, Ontario bakana@queensu.ca Office: (613) 533-6239

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Abigail B. Bakan (Ph.D York University, 1984) is Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University, where she has taught as a Queen's National Scholar since 1985; she is also cross-appointed to the Departments of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies. She is currently Chair of Undergraduate Stu...

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Bio/Research

Abigail B. Bakan (Ph.D York University, 1984) is Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University, where she has taught as a Queen's National Scholar since 1985; she is also cross-appointed to the Departments of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies. She is currently Chair of Undergraduate Studies, and Convenor of the Gender and Politics field in the Graduate Program, in the Department of Political Studies. She is a member of the advisory board of the Canadian Journal of Political Science.

Publications on citizenship and anti-oppression politics include: Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System (with Daiva K. Stasiulis) (winner of the 2007 Canadian Women's Studies Assocation book award); Employment Equity Policy in Canada : An Interprovincial Comparison (with Audrey Kobayashi) (2000); and Not One of the Family: Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada (co-editor with Daiva Stasiulis) (1997).

Publications in the areas of comparative development and global political economy include: Critical Political Studies: Debates and Dialogues from the Left (co-edited with Eleanor MacDonald) (2002); I mperial Power and Regional Trade: The Caribbean Basin Initiative (co-editor with David Cox and Colin Leys) (1993); and Ideology and Class Conflict in Jamaica : The Politics of Rebellion (1990).

Abigail Bakan has also published over thirty scholarly articles and book chapters. Journals include: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Feminist Review;Atlantis; Labour/Le Travail; Canadian Race Relations Reports; Science and Society; Studies in Political Economy; Asian and Pacific Migration; Race and Class; Social Identities; andPolitikon: South African Journal of Political Studies.


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