Dr. Emily Regan Wills
Assistant professor, Political Studies, University of Ottawa
Migrants, Migration, Refugees, Borders, Diasporas and Remittances, Feminist politics and theory, Globalization, Immigration, Transnationalism, United States, The Arab Middle East, Lebanon, Palestine/Israel, Egypt, Kuwait, Social movements
Media
Project Why: The Education of Refugees
A fifteen-minute video I did for a project a student was developing, wherein I talk about the Community Mobilization in Crisis project, the situation for post-secondary education for Syrian refugees in Lebanon and refugees more broadly, and what can be done about it.
CBC OttawaRadio/Podcast
Interview about the Community Mobilization in Crisis project with my co-director, Nadia Abu Zahra.
X’s and UFOs: Ottawa professor closes the case on X-Files fandom
Ottawa Citizen, January 19, 2016Print
An interview on my research on fans of The X-Files, put out to link to the series' reboot. (Which I think was pretty meh, in case you were curious.)
What Hillary Clinton's Run Does (and Doesn't) Mean for the US
Toronto StarPrint
"Changing who is playing the game of politics doesn’t change the rules of the game, or the barriers to progressive change."
Biography
Emily Wills studies everyday politics, particularly everyday transnationalisms. She is a longtime student of Arab politics and Arab diasporas, but frequently eclectic in her object of study. She is committed to critical and interpretive methods, normative research, and teaching for social transformation.