Eric Van Rythoven teaches International Relations and Canadian foreign policy at Carleton University. His research focuses on emotion, international theory, and the politics of security in the United States and Canada. His is the author of articles in Security Dialogue, European Journal of International Relations, Critical Studies on Security, European Review of International Studies, and the Journal of Global Security Studies . He is currently working on a book-length project focused on emotion and the politics of security in the United States and Canada. Mira Sucharov is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (SUNY Press, 2005), Public Influence: A Guide to Op-Ed Writing and Social Media Engagement (University of Toronto Press, 2019); is co-editor (with Aaron Hahn Tapper) of Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational and Contemporary Debates (University of Toronto Press, 2019), and many columns and op-eds, as well as academic articles on Israeli-Palestinian relations and Diaspora Jewish politics, emotions and international relations, auto-ethnography, pedagogy, and reflections on the craft of being a scholar-blogger. She is a four-time teaching award winner, having received a 2004 Carleton University Teaching Achievement Award, the 2011 Provost Fellowship in Teaching, a 2015 Faculty of Public Affairs Award for Excellence in Teaching, and a 2017 OCUFA award for teaching excellence - the highest university teaching award in Ontario. She is the founding co-chair of the Jewish Politics division at the Association of Jewish Studies, and serves as co-editor of AJS Perspectives.
