Visiting fellows

We very much enjoy hosting visiting fellows at Te Wai Ariki, including:

Professor David Macdonald, a highly-regarded political science professor at the University of Guelph, Canada focusing on comparative Indigenous politics in Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States.

"I am a biracial Indo-Trinidadian and Scottish political science professor at the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada). I am from Treaty 4 lands in Regina, Saskatchewan. I was appointed as the Research Leadership Chair for the college from 2017 to 2020. I have a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics, where I also served as Deputy Editor and Book Reviews Editor at Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Before coming to Guelph, I was Pūkenga Matua (Senior Lecturer) in Political Studies at Otago University, and Assistant Visiting Professor at the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris - ESCP Business School. I have been the field coordinator for the PhD core course in International Relations. I have written four books, co-edited four, and have co-authored two political science textbooks with Oxford University Press, in addition to book chapters and journal articles. Some of my writing is on comparative foreign policy, International Relations, and comparative Indigenous politics. I have a 5-year SSHRCC Insight Grant (with co-researcher Sheryl Lightfoot) on Indigenous practices of self-determination in comparative perspective, with a focus on Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand . Recent books are The Sleeping Giant Awakens: Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation (University of Toronto Press, 2019) and Populism and World Politics: Exploring Inter- and Transnational Dimensions, co-edited with F.A. Stengel and D. Nabers (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019). I am a fellow at the Australia Centre (University of Melbourne) and at Te Puna Rangahau o te Wai Ariki / NZ Centre for Indigenous Peoples and the Law (University of Auckland) and a member of the Royal Commission Forum monitoring the work of the NZ Royal Commission on Abuse in Care. I am also a member of the Reconciliation Committee of the Canadian Political Science Association and an incoming member of the Committee on the Status of Representation and Diversity of the International Studies Association. Check out my website for more info."

Eloise Ouellet Decoste, a LLD candidate at the Département des sciences juridiques of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) where she studies the right to reparation for settler colonialism in light of international standards and is a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and a Fonds de recherche du Québec scholar. Éloïse is also a pro bono lawyer and lecturer at UQÀM's International Clinic for the Defence of Human Rights.

EiEi Min is an Indigenous Woman from Myanmar, working in the capacity of Director at Promotion of Indigenous and Nature Together (POINT, ICCAA Consortium Member) since September 2013.​ She advocates for sustainable environmental and economic policies for all Myanmar people, regardless of gender or ethnicity. She has been a long-time advocate for indigenous peoples’ roles in climate change response under UNFCCC. Since COP20, she has continued her engagement in climate change issues related to indigenous peoples at local, national, regional and international level. In addition to this, she actively works on indigenous women’s issues, biodiversity protection, promotion of indigenous knowledge. Academically, she is a student of International Development and Environmental Policy Studies.

Cristina Fernández-Pacheco is an Associate Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Alicante, where she also earned her PhD in Law (Extraordinary Doctoral Award, 2009). She holds degrees in Law, Criminology, and Political Science. A Fulbright Scholar at Columbia Law School, she has conducted research at prestigious institutions such as the Max Planck Institute (Germany) and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Leiden University, the Netherlands). Her academic work focuses on international criminal law, sentencing, and transitional justice, with publications in leading journals like Leiden Journal of International Law, International Criminal Law Review, and Criminal Law Forum. She has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in Spanish and English, and is the author of a monograph on genocide in international criminal law—a topic she has explored further in her research, particularly in relation to the definition of protected groups. The book was developed following her participation in the internship programs at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, which shaped its pragmatic approach and its in-depth analysis of international criminal jurisprudence. She has delivered numerous lectures and presentations at national and international conferences and seminars and has held visiting positions at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany), the University of Eastern Finland, and the Università di Bologna (Italy). She has participated as a researcher in eight competitive research projects and currently leads two research projects on penal rationalization and crime prevention. She regularly acts as a peer reviewer for various national and international academic journals and has also served as evaluator for the EU’s Horizon 2020 program. She was Vice Dean for International Relations at the Faculty of Law of the University of Alicante between 2012 and 2016.