Assistant Professor

Department of Political Science (WLU)

Contact Information

Office:  Dr. Alvin Woods Building - Rm 4-160
Phone:  519.884.1970 x 2032
E-Mail: krygiel@wlu.ca

Education

PhD  York University, 2006
MA  Carleton University, 1996
BA  McGill University, 1992

Areas of Specialization

International Relations
Globalization and Global Governance
Citizenship and Migration
Security Studies and Gender

Short Bio

Kim Rygiel is an assistant professor with the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her teaching areas include international relations, globalization and global governance; citizenship and migration; security studies and gender and global politics. Her research and writing focuses on citizenship politics and the regulation of global mobility through border controls, travel, asylum and detention policies within North American and European contexts. Her current research project, "Putting Citizenship in Motion," investigates forms of activism of non-citizen migrant groups and migrant rights organizations in encounters with border controls. She is the author of Globalizing Citizenship (forthcoming, UBC Press) and co-editor (with Krista Hunt) of (En)Gendering the War on Terror: War Stories and Camouflaged Politics (Ashgate, 2006) and the author of several book chapters including "The Securitized Citizen", in Recasting the Social in Citizenship (University of Toronto Press, 2007), and "Abject Spaces: Frontiers, Zones and Camps" (with Engin F. Isin) in The Logics of Biopower and the War on Terror: Living, Dying, Surviving (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Most recent scholarly publications

Globalizing Citizenship. Book manuscript under contract with University of British Columbia Press, 2010.

"Global Cities (2)," Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. SAGE Reference Publications, 2009

"The Securitized Citizen," Recasting the Social in Citizenship. Engin F. Isin, ed., Toronto: University of Toronto Press pp. 268-300, 2008.

"Citizenship as Government: Disciplining Populations Post-9/11," Discipline and Punishment in Global Politics: Illusions of Control, Janie Leatherman. Ed., Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Krista Hunt and Kim Rygiel, eds. (En)Gendering the War on Terror: War Stories and Camouflaged Politics. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2006. (Paperback edition released December 2007).

Courses Taught