CURRICULUM VITAE Catherine Schittecatte, Ph.D.

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1 Nationality: Languages: CURRICULUM VITAE Catherine Schittecatte, Ph.D. Canadian French and English (fluent); Spanish (moderate) EDUCATION 09/96-08/01 Ph.D., Political Science, Dalhousie University Thesis Title: Contested Future(s): The Social Opposition to the OECD-MAI 09/94-08/95 M.A., Political Science, University of British Columbia. Thesis Title: The United Nations World Conferences on Women: A New South- North Dialogue? 09/89-04/94 B.A., Political Science (International Relations), University of British Columbia. ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Teaching: 2003-Present Faculty Member - Vancouver Island University - VIU (previously Malaspina University College), Nanaimo, British Columbia Introduction to Political Science (POLI 100) Intro to World Politics: Peace & Security, Intl Political Economy (200 & 201) International Organizations (POLI 300) Implementing Human Rights (POLI 301) - created human rights simulation Political Dimensions of International Development (POLI 302) Negotiations and Diplomacy (POLI 393) - training in parliamentary diplomacy Theories of International Relations (POLI 400) The Politics of Oil (POLI 457) Global Studies Intro. (GLST 211) - Global Political and Economic Syst. & Inst. Globalization: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry & Responses (GLST 390 & 391) Supervision International Interns (GLST 380 & 381) 2007 summer Tanzania Field School with Anthropology - development and field work Cuba Field School - development and design Lecturer: Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario Graduate Seminar: Politics of Third World Development Fourth year Seminar: Selected Problems in Third World Development Lecturer: University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario Introduction à l analyse de la politique internationale (POL 2551), Universal International Organizations (POL 3111), Politique et mondialisation (POL 1502), Systèmes Politiques de l Amérique Latine (POL 3545)

2 1998 Lecturer: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Foreign Policy in the Third World (Poli 3540) Guest Lecturer: Dalhousie University Comparative Politics & Honours Class in International Development Studies Teaching Assistant: Dalhousie University Comparative Politics & Political Inquiry Teaching Assistant: The University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC Comparative Politics Administrative and Committee Responsibilities (Malaspina - VIU): Winter 2012 Hiring Committee Member (elected) Dean of Social Sciences Winter 2011 Hiring Committee Member - Economics 2010 pres. Program Design Coordinator - in collaboration with the Dean of International Education and eight faculty members from the Faculties of Management and Social Sciences working to establish a Master s degree in International Development Studies at VIU pres. Faculty of Social Sciences Representative - Faculty of International Education Advisory Committee Senator - Social Sciences Faculty Representative - VIU Senate 2010/08 Senate Faculty Representative - Senate Planning and Resource Sub-committee & Senate Honorary Degrees Sub-committee 2009/01- Senator - Elected VIU Faculty-wide Representative - VIU Transitional Senate 2009/ Chair: Department of Political Studies, VIU Development and Approval of the Political Studies Major Chaired formulation of Strategic Plan for Chair, VIU Student Research and Conferences Committee Distributes two types of grants for students research and conference attendance 2006/06- Coordinator: Global Studies Internship Program, VIU Present Initiated, organized and coordinates the VIU Global Studies Internship program Placed GLST student interns in India, Brazil, Belize, Cambodia, Chile, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Thailand, Belgium, Switzerland & local.

3 Social Sciences Representative - VIU Scholarship and Bursaries Committee 2006 Hiring Committee Member Political Studies Aug Chair: Global Studies Program, VIU Present Chaired 2 Global Studies Strategic Plans: and Led internal review of the program; Growth in degree enrolments (from 15 to 60) PUBLICATIONS Refereed Publications: From Nkrumah to NEPAD and Beyond: has anything changed?, in From Colonization to Globalization, Charles Quist-Adade and Frances Chiang (eds.). Canada: Daysprings Publishing (September 2011) Opposing Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights and Dependency: Back to the Future?, in Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 28, no.1 (2007): Toward a More Inclusive Global Governance and Enhanced Human Security, in Sandra J. MacLean, David R. Black and Timothy M. Shaw (eds.) A Decade of Human Security: Global Governance and New Multilateralisms. Ashgate, Le(s) mouvement(s) anti-mondialisation: un défi pour l analyse de l action collective, in Louis Maheu, Pierre Hamel, Dominique Masson and Jean-Guy Vaillancourt (eds.) Action collective et changements institutionnels, Presses de l Université du Québec, Economic Globalization and its Discontents: A Historical Perspective on the Birth of the Anti- Corporate Globalization Movement, International Insights, Vol. 16, No.2, Fall The Politics of the MAI: On the Social Opposition to the MAI and its Role in the Demise of the Negotiations, Journal of World Investment, December The Creation of a Global Public Good Through Transnational Coalitions of Social Movements: The Case of the Amazon in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Volume XX, No.2, 1999, pp Non-refereed publications: The Elephant in the Room: Cuba s International Engagements and Influence - on line (June 2009)

4 Book Reviews: Ankie Hoogvelt, Globalization and the Postcolonial World, 2 nd ed., Palgrave, 2001, The European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 14, No.2, December Gilles Brunel and Claude-Yves Charron, La Communication Internationale: Mondialisation, acteurs et territoires socioculturels, Boucherville (Quebec): Gaëtan Morin, for Politique et Sociétés, University of Ottawa, 2004 Editorial Responsibilities: Co-Editor, Special Issue Fall 1996/Winter 1997, International Insights. (Graduate Students Journal - Dalhousie University) Work in Progress: Book Project - On the Emergence of the Anti-Globalization Movement, its Transformations and Potential(s); Anarchism and the Anti-globalization Movement: Too Close for Comfort? Canadian-Cuban Relations ; Africa in a Global Context: a historical perspective CONFERENCES Papers Presented: August 2010 From Nkruhma to NEPAD and Beyond: have things changed? - Kwame Nkrumah International Conference, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Vancouver June 2009 The Elephant in the Room: Cuba s International Engagements and Influence - ACUNS 22 nd Annual Meeting on Small, Middle and Emerging Powers in the UN System, University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago March 2008 March 2005 Feb Latin American Alternatives to Economic Globalization, co-presented with students based on their course work and field work in Brazil at the 7 th Symposium on Social Justice, Malaspina Institute of Practical Philosophy, Nanaimo, BC Globalization/anti-globalization and World Orders as Tectonic Plates: Explaining the Opposition to Economic Globalization with a Coxian Framework, 46 th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), Honolulu, Hawaii. Good Governance as Complex Multilateralism changing the course of economic globalization, Simon Fraser University - Centre for Global Political Economy workshop titled A Decade of Human Security: mapping governance innovations and prospects, Vancouver, BC August 2002 Seeds of Poverty/Food for Thought: The Controversy over the Production, Sale,

5 and Trade of Genetically Modified Seeds in the Post-Colonial World, workshop on Studies of Development in the Era of Globalization, IPSA RC #40 and the European Association of Development Research and Training Institute (EADI) Working Group on New Regionalisms & Global Development. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. June 2002 Forms of Resistance to the Globalized Capitalist Economy, IPSA # 49 Workshop on Justice and Globalization, University of Ottawa, Ontario. August 2001 Economic Globalization and its Discontents: A Historical Perspective on the Birth of the Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement, IPSA, RC#40 Workshop, Halifax, Nova Scotia. August 2000 Globalised Activism vs. Regional Interests: Is There a Bridge for North-South Co-operation?, IPSA, RC #40 Workshop, Halifax, Nova Scotia. July 2000 March 2000 June 1998 The Anti-MAI Campaign and its Sequel in Seattle: Business as Usual? Joint Conference, Canadian Political Science Association and the Société québecoise de science politique. Quebec City. Contested Futures: The Transnational Coalition to Stop the OECD MAI, 41 st Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), Los Angeles. On the Emergence of an International Public Good, 14 th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID). Guest Speaker: Oct Linkages Among Opponents of Economic Integration(s): The View From European Groups, Malaspina University-College, Elder College, Qualicum (B.C.) Invited Guest Panelist: May 2011 Academic and Scholarly Relations with Cuba: a Canadian perspective - NAFSA 2011 Annual Conference, Vancouver B.C. Invited by NAFSA Association of International Educators & the Washington Office on Latin America Feb Crosscurrents series of public panels sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (Dalhousie University) and the International Days 2000" series sponsored by the Lester Pearson International Institute. Panel title: Seattle and the Future of the State: The World Trade Organization. EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Winter 2012 Chair, Expert Review Panel, British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education, Degree Quality Assessment Board Committee for the Review of the University of the Fraser Valley proposed Global Development Studies Program

6 Jan-Apr 2011 External Reviewer of the Global Studies Program at Huron University College, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario 2010 pres. Faculty Advisor - VIU International Development Week Contributor to events: human rights simulation bringing over 25 students from across campus to participate; moderated a faculty and staff discussion on development; hosted public movie night and related debate; invited World Food Program representative and initiated Universities Against World Hunger chapter. March 2010 Feb 2010 The Ecology of Food - contributed an International Political Economy perspective, Biosphere Conversation series, organized by the VIU Alexandro Malaspina Research Centre and the Tofino Botanical Garden, Tofino, BC Facilitated (with a Global Studies student) a Human Rights simulation for the regional event of the NGO Rights and Democracy at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. 2010&2011 B.C. Political Science Programs articulation meetings Present VIU Global Studies representative on the Canadian Consortium of University Programs in International Development Studies (CCUPIDS) Annual Meetings of Programs across Canada Feb Spring 2007 Organized cross-disciplinary workshop on international internships for university students with funding from the Canadian Association for Studies in International Development (CASID) - involved other universities, VIU colleagues and staff, NGOs, administrative staff and student interns. Joint public interview with a colleague from psychology of Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a boy soldier - community audience of over Nanaimo Port Theatre present VIU - GLST Representative - Canadian Council on University Programs in International Development Studies (CCUPIDS) Ongoing Collaborative work with local NGOs involved in development and social justice 2003-Present Faculty Advisor to Student Clubs Extra-Curricular Activities and Projects: VIU - WUSC and WUSC Student Refugee Club - initiated and ongoing Global Studies Student Association - ongoing Model United Nations Club & Conferences (UBC, Ottawa, New York) ongoing VIU Student-led Model UN Conferences (2) $10,000 budgets Initiated NGO EQUIP - Development with Indigenous Peoples in Paraguay University of Victoria - Student Workshop on United Nations Reform - event

7 University of British Columbia - Human Security Conference - event Campus visit by WATOTO - a Ugandan Orphan Children s Choir fundraisers (2) AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS 2008 CASID - International Internship Workshop ($2,500) 2008 Malaspina-University College - Study Abroad - New International Program ($1,500) 2005 Malaspina-University College Capacity Building Grant ($1,500) Dalhousie University Graduate Scholarship ($12,000/yr) AFFILIATIONS WITH PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) International Studies Association (ISA) Canadian Association for Studies in International Development (CASID)