Megan Melanson: TSAS Blogger
“I envision a blog that not only provides a space for affiliates to discuss current events and to share their research, but to also tackles specific questions of policy makers and affiliated government units.” TSAS junior research affiliate, Megan Melanson is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh with the Centre of Canadian […]
Lorne Dawson: Pioneer Researcher on Home Grown Terrorist Radicalization
“Canada doesn’t have specialists within the field of terrorism research“. Lorne Dawson hopes to fill that void. “There is almost nobody in Canada talking specifically about terrorist radicalization,” Lorne Dawson recounts his experiences over the last five years, about the times he has been asked to participate in panels on the subject of radicalization. […]
Martin Bouchard – Extracting the Social Structure of Extremism
“Trying to model the most obvious and extreme form of terrorist activity, to label it properly – carries both a danger, and a great potential.” Martin Bouchard is a busy man. While he is currently on paternity leave, he simultaneously arranges conferences, teaches classes and is actively participating in the start-up of TSAS. But this […]
Uzma Jamil – Fitting Canadian Experiences into the Global Context
“The events of 9/11 made my topic of PhD research kind of inevitable in a way, because the political context had such a strong and pervasive influence on the lives of Muslims in North America.” As a researcher under the ‘Society’ aspect of TSAS, Dr. Uzma Jamil represents an important component in the work of […]