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I received my PhD in Political Science from York University and my MA from the University of Toronto. I also have a journalism degree from Carleton University.
Prior to joining Laurier, I worked as a journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Following that, during the early 1990s, I worked in Nicaragua as a researcher examining how structural adjustment policies affected women employed by the government, based in Managua.
My research is on the democracy-building and economic development programs of international actors (governments and international organizations) in Central America and the Caribbean. During the last 10 years, I focused primarily on how outsiders have affected economic and political developments in Haiti.
My research on Haiti has become recognized and valued in Canada and internationally. I have published in Canadian, American and European academic journals. I am regularly invited to present my work in diverse fora and have been asked to write policy briefs for international organizations, the Canadian government and non-governmental organizations. Given that Haiti is a Canadian foreign policy priority, I have also been invited to provide comments to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on Canada’s future development role in Haiti.
I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of Canadian foreign policy toward the global South, Latin American and Caribbean Politics, and democratic development.
- Shamsie, Y. La construction d’un parc industriel dans l’arrière-pays rural d’Haïti. Quelques observations sur le partenariat État-société et les capacités de l’État, [Dropping an Industrial Park into Haiti’s Rural Hinterland: Some Observations on state-society partnering and state capacity] Les Cahiers des Amériques latines, 75;79-96, 2014.
- Shamsie, Y. Haiti’s Post-Earthquake Transformation: What of Agriculture and Rural Development?. Latin American Politics and Society, 54:133-154, 2012.
- Shamsie, Y. Applying the Security-Development Nexus in Haiti: What has been Obscured and Prioritized? Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, Special Issue on Haiti, 6:32-44, 2012.
- Shamsie, Y. Canadian Assistance to Haiti: Some Sobering Snags in a Fragile State Approach. Peter McKenna (ed.) Canada Looks South: In Search of an Americas Policy, University of Toronto Press, 2012, pp. 180-211.
- Shamsie, Y. Quelle stratégie de développement pour Haïti? A. Martinez, P. Beaudet, and S. Baranyi (eds), Haiti aujourd’hui, Haiti demain, University of Ottawa Press, 2011, pp. 93-98.
- Shamsie, Y., Grinspun, R., Missed Opportunities: Canada’s Approach to Latin America and the Caribbean. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 16:171-199, 2009.
- Shamsie, Y. Export Processing Zones: The Purported Glimmer in Haiti’s Development Murk. Review of International Political Economy, 16:649-672, 2009.
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Languages spoken: English, French, Spanish