Graduate Student, Political Science
About
EDUCATION
9/2010-present Department of Political Science, York University, North York, ON, CANADA
Ph.D in Political Science
Major: Comparative Politics - qualified (9/2011)
Minor: North American Political Economy
Supervisory Committee: Greg Albo (chair), Rodney Leoppky, David McNally
Research Interests: comparative political economy of welfare states in industrial democracies, cross-paradigmatic comparisons between competing schools of political-economic thought, method in social science
2006-2010 Program in Social Science (defunct), San Francisco State University, CA, USA
M.A. in Social Science
Thesis: A Comparative Political Economy of Capitalist Profit Theory
Supervisory Committee: Raymond C. Miller (chair), Donald W. Mar
Concentrations: international political economy, microeconomic theory
1997-2004 Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University, CA, USA
B.A. in Philosophy
Concentrations: Modern philosophy, philosophy of mind, social and political philosophy
1997-2004 Special Major, San Francisco State University, CA, USA
B.A. in Political Economy
Concentrations: international political economy, microeconomic theory, history
of economic thought
AWARDS
2010-present York University
International Student Scholarship, Full-time Teaching Assistantship
2007-2008 California State University, USA
Sally Cassanova Pre-Doctoral Scholarship
2004 Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University
Departmental Honoree
2003 Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy, Rutgers University, USA
Full scholarship for two-week intensive workshop.
TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS
9/2010-present Department of Political Science, York University
POLS 1000: Introduction to Politics
9/2007-5/2009 Department of International Relations, San Francisco State University
IR 312: International Political Economy
9/2003-5/2005 Department of International Relations, San Francisco State University
IR 312: International Political Economy
9/2002-5/2003 Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Race, Class, and Gender
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2009-2010 Rajeev Patel
History of economic thought research for The Value of Nothing.
2007-2008 David McNally
Research into Marxist theories of world money and international trade.
2005-2007 Raymond C. Miller
Editorial assistant on International Political Economy: Contrasting World Views.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, Germany
Union for Radical Political Economics, USA









