Jonathan Crossen
Since my time as an undergraduate at the University of Victoria, I have been interested in world and global history, as well as nationalism, racism, and gender and cultural identities. As a fellow at Central European University in Budapest, gained an MA and, through my work with Prof. Susan Zimmerman, a deeper interest in the history of organized internationalism, and its connection with global inequalities and national identity.
In an attempt to combine my interests into a single coherent topic, I’m pursuing research into the history of Indigenous internationalism (starting with the World Council of Indigenous Peoples in 1975), and its relation to the wider history of organized internationalism of the 20th century.
Prof. Dan Gorman has kindly agreed to work with me as a supervisor, and my fields of Global Governance (with Prof. John English), Indigenous History (with Prof. Susan Neylan), and Race & Imperialism (with Prof. James W. St. G. Walker) will hopefully help strengthen my grasp of such a vast topic.
Professors Susan Neylan and Ken Coates have agreed to sit on my advisory committee.
I am also very pleased to have worked with Professor Bessma Momani at the Centre for International Governance Innovation as part of my 2007-8 Balsillie Fellowship. I was also asked to work for Dr. Bruce Muirhead as a student investigator for a SSHRC International Opportunities Fund grant, “Resource Dependent Communities in Old Economy Regions: The Role of Nature in Social Change, Adaptation and Resistance”.