Social and Political Thought (MA)

As a graduate student of Social and Political Thought at Acadia, you will benefit from the small school environment with small class sizes and high faculty-to-student interaction. Only MA programs without PHD programs above them can promise this kind of support, attention and engagement. While having access to professors with a diverse set of research interests, you can also expect a personalized research agenda. To ensure attention to the interdisciplinary nature of the program, you will be guided in your research by your supervisor and a second reader (selected from another discipline).

Paul Abela: Kant; Moral theory
Andrew Biro: Critical theory; Environmental political theory; Political ecology/economy
Rachel Brickner: Comparative political theory; Latin American politics
James Brittain: Critical Development Studies; Latin American Society and Politics; Political Economy; Social Change and Revolution
Michael Dennis: The political economy of the New Deal era; social movements and political reform in the United States; globalization and the American South; American economic history of the postwar period; and the civil rights movement.
Marc Ramsay: Ethics and philosophy of law
Jon Saklofske: Literary studies; Media forms and functions; Narrative ideologies; Digital cultures; Virtual environments; Video game studies
Donna Seamone: Ritual studies; Ethnographic study of religion
Tony Thomson: Marxism; Organized labour in Canada; Critical criminology; Social theory
Brenda Trofanenko: Public history and pedagogy; Museum anthropology; Postcolonial theory; Memory studies
Geoffrey Whitehall: International political theory; Contemporary Political Thought; Discourses of Culture and Technology; Philosophy of Space and Time
Ian Wilks: Medieval philosophy; Philosophy of religion; Ethics and bioethics