BSIA

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Veronica Kitchen

Assistant Professor at BSIA
  • Veronica Kitchen
  • Assistant Professor at BSIA
  • Department of Political Science (UW)
  • Office Location: 312 Hagey Hall (UW); BSIA 302
  • E-mail Address: vkitchen@uwaterloo.ca
  • Phone Number: 519.888.4567, ext. 32418 (UW); 226-772-3144 (BSIA)

Background

Veronica M. Kitchen is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. Her current research focuses on inter-agency and cross-border co-operation in counter-terrorism, the ethics of security, mega-event security, and the evolution of NATO. She teaches in the Peace & Security and Multilateral Institutions & Diplomacy fields of the Global Governance program. Prior to joining the University of Waterloo, she was a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre of International Relations at the University of British Columbia. She completed her Ph.D in political science at Brown University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, in 2006. She has an undergraduate degree in International Relations from Trinity College at the University of Toronto.

Select Publications

  • The Globalization of NATO: Intervention, Security, and Identity (Routledge, 2010)
  • "NATO's Out-of-Area Norm from Suez to Afghanistan" Journal of Transatlantic Studies 8 (2) (2010).
  • "Canada (En)Counters Terrorism: US-Canada Relations and Counter-Terrorism Policy" Terrorism & Political Violence 21(1), 2009 p. 155-173. (with Karthika Sasikumar).
  • "Argument and Identity Change in the Atlantic Security Community" Security Dialogue 40(1) February 2009.
  • Guest editor with Petra Dolata-Kreutzkamp, "Canada-Germany Relations: Essays in Honour of Robert Spencer" International Journal 63(3), Summer 2008.

Academic/Professional Awards

  • Ontario Early Researcher Award, 2011
  • University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award, 2011
  • SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2010
  • DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) Doctoral Scholarship, 2005
  • Canada-US Fulbright Scholarship, 2001