Assistant Professor

Balsillie School, Department of Political Science (UW)

Contact Information

Office Number: 312 Hagey Hall
Phone Number: 519-888-4567 x 32418
Email Address: vkitchen @ uwaterloo.ca
Personal Websites: http://politicalscience.uwaterloo.ca/profiles/prof-kitchen.htm

Education

Ph.D, Brown University, 2006
A.M., Brown University, 2003
B.A. (Hons), University of Toronto, 2001

Areas of Specialization

international relations
international security
transatlantic relations
counter-terrorism
IR theory

Short Bio

Veronica M. Kitchen is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests are in the evolution of NATO, anti-terrorism co-operation, and the role of cities in international security. 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.

Most recent scholarly publications

"NATO's Out-of-Area Norm from Suez to Afghanistan" Journal of Transatlantic Studies 8(2) (forthcoming 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.

"Multinational and Transnational Co-operation in Homeland Security" in P. Viotti, M. Opheim, and N. Bowen (eds) Terrorism and Homeland Security: Thinking Strategically About Policy (Taylor & Francis, 2008) (co-author Gregory J. Moore).

Recent academic/professional awards

UW/SSHRC Seed Grant

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2006

DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) Doctoral Scholarship, 2005

SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, 2004

Canada-US Fulbright Scholarship, 2001

Courses taught

PSCI 685 - Critical Security Studies
PSCI 657 - International Organizations and Global Governance
PSCI 685 - Civil Security & Counter-Terrorism