2011 Trudeau Fellow

Profile

John McGarry was born in Northern Ireland in 1957 and emigrated to Canada in 1981.  He received his B.A. from Trinity College Dublin and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. He taught at the University of Western Ontario and University of Waterloo, before moving to Queen's University in 2002, where he is currently Professor of Political Studies and Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy. In 2008-09, McGarry served as the first 'Senior Advisor on Power-Sharing' at the United Nations (Mediation Support Unit, Dept. of Political Affairs), and he is presently the lead advisor on governance to the United Nations in Cyprus (UNFICYP).  In 2010, McGarry was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.  

McGarry specializes in the academic and practical aspects of ethnic conflict resolution.  He is the editor, co-editor and co-author of eleven books on this subject, the latest of which are European Integration and the Nationalities Question (Routledge 2006); The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq (U. Penn Press 2005); and The Northern Ireland Conflict: Consociational Engagements (Oxford U. Press, 2004). He has written and co-written over 70 articles and book chapters on his research, which have appeared in such journals as Ethnic and Racial Studies, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Nations and Nationalism, Political Studies, Parliamentary Affairs, Government and Opposition, Political Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Studies, and the Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. He is on the editorial board of five academic journals, and is a Fellow of  the 'Penn Program on Ethnic Conflict' (University of Pennsylvania).  He is a former member (2003-09) of the Executive Board of the International Political Science Association's 'Research Committee on Politics and Ethnicity'.

McGarry has been a regular contributor to public media, including NPR in the United States and the CBC and TVO in Canada. He has written op-eds for several newspapers, including Canada's Globe and Mail.

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