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Richard Nimijean

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Degrees:B.A., M.A. (Concordia)
Email:richard.nimijean@carleton.ca
Office:1210 Dunton Tower
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Please note that Richard Nimijean is on sabbatical between January 1 to December 31, 2026.

Biography

Richard began teaching in the School of Canadian Studies in 1999. Educated in Political Science and Public Policy, he has researched, written, and taught in the areas of Canadian Studies, Canadian politics and public policy, regional innovation systems, science and technology policy, and scholarly communication.

Richard has received two Professional Achievement Awards (Instructor) from 杏吧原创 University (2008-09 and 2018). He was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Center for the Study of Canada, The State University of New York College at Plattsburgh (April 2013). He received an Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility Certificate to give a series of presentations at the Alexandra Ioan Cuza University of Ia葯i (Romania) (April 24-28, 2017). 听Richard was a Visiting Professor in the Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) in 2020-21.

Richard is very active in the Canadian Studies community, participating in activities sponsored by the International Council of Canadian Studies, the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, the British Association of Canadian Studies, the Mexican Association of Canadian Studies, and Global Affairs Canada. He has delivered talks on Canadian Studies across Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Chile, and Argentina.

He previously served as the School鈥檚 Undergraduate Supervisor (2003-07; 2009-10; 2011-13; 2021-23; July-December 2024) Graduate Supervisor (July-December 2024), and was the Assistant Dean (Recruitment and First-Year Programs) in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2009-14).

Research Interests

Richard鈥檚 research interests focus on national identity and the branding of Canada, the relationship between Canada’s role as a global actor and the Canadian identity, and the politics of the brand state. Current research and writing projects include:

  • Cross-border perspectives on Canada-US relations
  • Global issues from a Canadian perspective

Publications

Books

  • Kirkey, Christopher, and Richard Nimijean, eds. 2022.听Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Carment, David, and Richard Nimijean, eds. 2021.听. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Carment, David, and Richard Nimijean, eds.听2019. . London: Routledge.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • The Elephant Still Twitches: Trudeau鈥檚 Management of Canada鈥揢.S. Relations in the America First Era.鈥� In The Trudeau Record, edited by Laura Macdonald, Katherine Scott, and Stuart Trew, 255-267. Halifax: Lorimer, 2024. https://lorimer.ca/adults/product/the-trudeau-record-promise-and-performance/
  • “An Accidental Canadianist: How my career in Canadian Studies all began.鈥� Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies 4 (August 2024): 139-144. 听https://acnzsn.org/journal/jacanzs-volume-4-august-2024/an-accidental-canadianist-how-my-career-in-canadian-studies-all-began/
  • Nimijean, Richard. 2022. “Spatial Dislocation and Canadian Studies, or Thinking 杏吧原创 Canada 6000 Kilometres from Home.” In The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad, edited by Christopher Kirkey and Richard Nimijean, 167-204. Cham: Springer International Publishing.Kirkey, Christopher, and Richard Nimijean. 2022. “Spatial Dislocation, Canadian Expats, and National Identity.” In The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad, edited by Christopher Kirkey and Richard Nimijean, 3-22. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  • Carment, David, and Richard Nimijean. 2021. 鈥淒ivided in a Dangerous World.鈥� In Political Turmoil in a Tumultuous World: Canada Among Nations 2020, edited by David Carment and Richard Nimijean, 3-21. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Marland, Alex, and Richard Nimijean. 2021. 鈥淩ebranding Brand Trudeau.鈥� In Political Turmoil in a Tumultuous World: Canada Among Nations 2020, edited by David Carment and Richard Nimijean, 55-76. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Nimijean, Richard, David Carment, and Sydney Stewart. 2021. 鈥淲ill Canada Forge its Own Path in a Turbulent World?鈥� In Political Turmoil in a Tumultuous World: Canada Among Nations 2020, edited by David Carment and Richard Nimijean, 319-334. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Carment, David, and Richard Nimijean. 2020. 鈥淎ssessing Canada鈥檚 Liberal Internationalism: Where is Canada Headed on the Global Stage?鈥� In Canadian Political, Social and Historical (Re)visions in 20th and 21st Centuries, edited by Marcin Gabry艣, Magdalena Marczuk-Karbownik and Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek, 13-44. Berlin: Peter Lang.
  • 鈥淲here is the Relationship Going? The View from Canada.鈥� In Canada-US Relations: Sovereignty or Shared Institutions?, edited by David Carment and Christopher Sands. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction: Is Canada Back? Brand Canada in a Turbulent World.鈥� Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 24:2 (2018):127-138.
  • 鈥淢igrant Spirit Contested:听Competing Visions of Canada鈥檚 National Identity in the 2015 Federal Election.鈥澨�TransCanadiana听9 (2017): 335-352.
  • 鈥淢arketing the Maple Leaf: The Curious Case of听National Flag of Canada Day.鈥�听In听Celebrating Canada. Volume I: National Holidays and the Evolving Contours of Canadian Identity, eds.听Matthew Hayday and Raymond Blake. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016 forthcoming (co-authored with L. Pauline Rankin).
  • 鈥淎 Passport to Identity: The Decline of Duality and the Symbolic Appropriation of Qu茅bec.鈥� Etudes canadiennes / Canadian Studies , n掳 78 (2015): 25-48. (Co-authored with Anne Tr茅panier).
  • 鈥淚ntroduction,鈥� (with Anne Tr茅panier), special issue of the International Journal of Canadian Studies vol. 50 (2014) on 鈥淲here is Qu茅bec in Canadian Studies / La place du Qu茅bec dans les 茅tudes canadiennes鈥�: 5-13.
  • Domestic Brand Politics and the Modern Publicity State.鈥� In Publicity and the Canadian State, ed. Kirsten Kozolanka. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014, pp. 172-194.
  • 鈥淗arper鈥檚 Axe Hits Canadian Studies Abroad: The End of the Understanding Canada Program Reflects Changing Foreign Policy Priorities,鈥� Inroads 32 (Winter 2013): 14-18.
  • 鈥淩ebranding the Oil Sands,鈥� Inroads vol. 29 (Fall/Winter 2011): 76-85.
  • 鈥淭he Resurgence of Can-Am Liberalism: A Study in Ambiguity.鈥� CanadaWatch (Spring 2009).
  • 鈥淐an Movements 鈥楳ove鈥� Online? Online Activism, Canadian Women鈥檚 Movements and the case of PAR-L.鈥� In Mobilizations and Engagements: Social Movements in Canada, eds. Marie Hammond Callaghan and Matthew Hayday. Black Point: Fernwood, 2008, pp. 62-80 (co-authored with L. Pauline Rankin).
  • 鈥淐anadian Studies and the Harper Foreign Policy Agenda.鈥� Inroads vol. 22 (Winter/Spring 2008): 23-27.
  • 鈥淭he Ongoing Crisis of Canadian Studies.鈥� CanadaWatch (Fall 2007): 14-16.
  • 鈥淏rand Canada: The Brand State and the Decline of the Liberal Party.鈥� Inroads vol. 19 (May 2006): 84-93.
  • 鈥淭he Politics of Branding Canada: The International 鈥� Domestic Nexus and the Rethinking of Canada鈥檚 Place in the World.鈥� Mexican Journal of Canadian Studies (vol. 11, 2006).
  • 鈥淎rticulating the 鈥淐anadian Way鈥�: Canada鈩� and the Political Manipulation of the Canadian Identity.鈥� British Journal of Canadian Studies (vol. 18:1, 2005): 26-52.
  • 鈥淭he Paradoxical Nature of the Canadian Identity.鈥� Teaching Canada, vol. 23 (February 2005): 25-31.
  • 鈥淔rom Analysis to the Formulation of Policy Options: Lessons from Two Surveys of the Regional Innovation System of the Estrie Region of Quebec.鈥� In Innovation, Institutions and Territory: Regional Innovation Systems in Canada, eds. J. Adam Holbrook and David A. Wolfe. Kingston: Queen鈥檚 University School of Policy Studies, 2000, pp. 127-138 (co-authored with R茅jean Landry).
  • 鈥淪aint John, New Brunswick as an Emerging Local System of Innovation.鈥� In Local and Regional Systems of Innovation, eds. John de la Mothe and Gilles Paquet. Boston: Kluwer, 1998, pp. 277-302.
  • 听鈥淎nd What 杏吧原创 Students? The Forgotten Role of Students in the Scholarly Communication Debate.鈥� Canadian Journal of Communications, Vol. 22, No. 3/4 (Summer/Autumn 1997): 179-196.
  • 鈥淕lobal Economic Restructuring and the Evolution of Canadian Federalism and Constitutionalism.鈥� In New Trends in Canadian Federalism, eds. Miriam Smith and Fran莽ois Rocher. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1995, pp. 211-233 (co-authored with Fran莽ois Rocher).

Graduate Supervisions

  • Sarah Murphy (M.A. Research Essay). 鈥淒rumming into the Heart of Nova Scotia: An Exploration of Peninsular Culture and Branding.鈥� Submitted April 2009. Co-supervised with Peter Hodgins.
  • Robert Hilton (M.A. Thesis). Building Political Capital: The Politics of 鈥楴eed鈥� in the Federal Government鈥檚 Municipal Infrastructure Programs, 1993-2006. Defended April 17, 2007. Awarded distinction. Co-supervised with Christopher Stoney.
  • Andrea Clark-Grignon (M.A. Research Essay). 鈥淚nternational Education and the Demand for Global Citizens: The Case of 杏吧原创 University.鈥� Submitted April 2007. Co-supervised with L. Pauline Rankin.
  • Lindsay de Leeuw (M.A. Research Essay). 鈥淔rom Mounties to Mukluks: Uncovering the Motives and Implications of Branding a Stereotypical Canada at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games.鈥� Submitted April 2007. Co-supervised with Peter Hodgins.
  • 听Wayne Saunders (M.A. Thesis). Recent State Promotion of the Canadian Aerospace Industry: A Case of Reactive or Anticipatory Public Policy? Defended April 17, 2003. Co-supervised with Fran莽ois Rocher.
  • Mary Pinkoski (M.A. Thesis). From Pots and Pans to Guns and Bombs: Women and Direct Action. Defended January 7, 2003. Co-supervised with L. Pauline Rankin.
  • Rebecca Mosher (M.A. Research Essay). 鈥淭he Evolution of a Pro-Canada Nationalist Organization to a Transnational Social Movement Organization: The Case of the Council of Canadians.鈥� Successfully completed S 2002. Co-supervised with L. Pauline Rankin.

Undergraduate Supervisions

  • Madeleine Lawler (PAPM 4908). 鈥淭he Under-representation of the Qu茅bec English-speaking Community in the Quebec Provincial Civil Service.鈥� (F/W 2019-20).
  • Stephanie Ryan (PAPM 4908). 鈥淲hy are Canadians Reluctant to Accept the Changing Face of the Canadian Military? A Critical Analysis of National Identity and Peacekeeping.鈥� (F/W 2006-07).
  • Nadine Wyatt (PAPM 4908). The Persistent Myths of Canadian Internationalism: An In-depth Examination into the Rhetoric-Reality Gap in Canadian Foreign Policy (F/W 2004-05).
  • Justin Henry (DIST 4908) Canada鈥檚 Northern Foreign Policy (F/W 2004-05).