Hafez Tomb (1300-1389)
Shiraz Iran

 

Dr. Shiraz Dossa
Professor of Political Science

Nicholson Hall 513, (902) 867-2105
sdossa@stfx.ca

Professor Dossa acquired his B.A. (Hons) in Political Science at Makerere University despite the fact he did not relish wearing the undergraduate red gown for lunch and dinner at this very British institution.  Later he earned both an MA and Ph.D. (Political theory) at the University of Toronto, under the supervision of   C. B. Macpherson, Christian Bay and Peter H. Russell.

Following a two year stint as a Teaching Fellow at the U of T, he taught for a number of years at the University of Calgary and took up his current position at St. F. X. in 1988.  In 1990 he was invited to join an international Research Project funded by the Academy of Finland on Culture, Politics and Identity based at the University of Helsinki.  In 1996, he was invited to deliver the Josiah Wood Lecture at Mount Allison University in Sackville (NB) on Liberalism and Cultural Difference.  In 1998 he was invited to deliver a lecture on Human Rights and Global Politics at Middlebury College in Vermont (US).

In 2006, he attended conferences on Hannah Arendt (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Ethics and Development (Kampala, Uganda), and on the Holocaust: A Global View (Tehran, Iran).  

COURSES

Political Science 100

Politics, Power and Culture: An Introduction

  Fall 2009 - A block

Political Science 200

History of Political Thought

see J. F. Harrison

Political Science 301

Liberalism and its Critics

not taught 2009-10

Political Science 303

Contemporary Political Arguments

Spring 2010

Political Science 330

Comparative Study of Nationalism

not taught 2009-20

Political Science 370

Third World Politics

2009-10 - GH block

Political Science 372

Iran & the Muslim World

Fall 2009 - D block

Political Science 380

African Politics and Society

not taught 2009-10

Political Science 402

Political Theory II (Seminar)

not taught 2009-10

Curriculum vitae/publications (pdf)

Articles:

Stephen Kimber   -   DENYING A DEBATE ON THE MIDDLE EAST

Mark Mercer - PETITIONS AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Shiraz Dossa  -  A MUSLIM SCHOLAR SPEAKS HIS MIND

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