Mira Sucharov

Dr. Sucharov is an associate professor of political science. She holds a Ph.D. in government from Georgetown University (2001), an M.A. in political science from the University of Toronto (1996), and a B.A. in Middle East Studies from McGill University (1994). In 1999-2000, she was a visiting fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Truman Institute. She specializes in International Relations theory, international security, psychological & constructivist approaches to IR, and Israeli-Palestinian relations.

Dr. Sucharov is the author of The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005), and numerous articles on international relations, foreign policy, and Israeli-Palestinian relations. She writes for The Huffington Post and The Mark, writes a regular column in the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin, Winnipeg Jewish Review, and Vancouver Jewish Independent, and is a frequent commentator on Middle East affairs in the national media. For a column on Holocaust education and Israeli foreign policy, Dr. Sucharov won a 2011 Rockower Award from the American Jewish Press Association. Dr. Sucharov was a 2004 recipient of the Carleton University Teaching Achievement Award, and is a 2011 winner of the Provost’s Fellowship in Teaching. She is currently writing a book on nostalgia and political change (under contract with University of Michigan Press).