Balsillie School, Department of Political Science (WLU)

Contact Information

Office Location:  175 Albert Street or SAWB 4-119
Phone Number:  519.884.0710 x 2728
Email: pgoff@wlu.ca

Education

• PhD - Northwestern
• MA - McMaster University
• BA - University of Western Ontario

Areas of Specialization

• International Relations Theory
• International Political Economy
• Global Governance

Short Bio

 Dr. Goff specializes in international political economy, international relations theory, and international organization, with a particular interest in trade and cultural policy. She is co-editor (with Kevin C. Dunn) of Identity and Global Politics: Theoretical and Empirical Elaborations (Palgrave, 2004) and co-editor (with Paul Heinbecker) of Irrelevant or Indispensable?: The United Nations in the 21st Century (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005). She is also author of Limits to Liberalization: Local Culture in a Global Marketplace (Cornell University Press: 2007).

Most recent scholarly publications

 
"World Religions and Local Identities: The Case of Shariah Arbitration in Ontario, Canada," In Religion, Identity and Global Governance, edited by Patrick James. (forthcoming, University of Toronto Press).

"Political Beliefs and the Academic Responsibilities of Undergraduate Teaching." (with Jamie Frueh, David Blaney, Kevin Dunn, Eric K. Leonard, and Simona Sharoni). Journal of Political Science Education 4: 4 (2008).

"Imagining Independence: At the Intersection of Cultural and Foreign Policies," In An Independent Foreign Policy for Canada?, edited by Brian Bow and Patrick Lennox. 2008,University of Toronto Press).

"A Comment on the Effective Possibilities of ultilateralism," In Can the World Be Governed?, edited by Alan Alexandroff. (2008, Wilfrid Laurier University Press).

Limits to Liberalization: Local Culture in a Global Marketplace. (Cornell Studies in Political Economy Series, Cornell University Press, 2007).

Recent academic / professional awards

 Wilfrid Laurier University Merit Award, 2008

Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant, 2008, "The Political Economy of Traditional Knowledge" ($56,000)

Wilfrid Laurier University Instructional Development Grant, 2008, "Bringing Policy into the Classroom"

Wilfrid Laurier University Internal Grant, 2007, "The Political Economy of Traditional Knowledge"

Wilfrid Laurier University Merit Award, 2006

Wilfrid Laurier University Special Initiatives Fund Grant, 2005, for Visiting Speaker Series on Diversity, Inequality, and Globalization (with Loren King)

Wilfrid Laurier University Research Cluster Grant, 2005, for Research Cluster on Cultural Policy (with B. Carmichael, M. DiCenzo, A. Herman, B. Jenkins, S. Preece)

Courses Taught

International Organization; International Relations Theory; Globalization and Global Governance; International Political Economy