EDUCATION Diplomas 2013 Ph.D. in Political Science, University of

DR. GABRIEL BLOUIN GENEST
Assistant Professor
Department of political science
Virginia Tech
512 Major Williams Hall
220 Stanger Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
EDUCATION
Diplomas
2013
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Ottawa, School of Political Studies (Ottawa,
Canada).
Specializations: Global health politics, bio-security; health crisis.
Major: International Relations
Minor: Political thought
Thesis selected by the thesis jury for the prize of the best thesis in humanities and social
sciences.
2008
Master degree in International Studies, Institut Québécois des Hautes Études Internationales –
Laval University (Québec, Canada).
2006
Bachelor degree in Economics and Politics, Laval University (Québec, Canada)
60 credits completed at the Institut d’Études Politiques, Science-Po (Paris, France)
2002
College diploma, François-Xavier-Garneau College (Québec, Canada).
Grants
2016
Humanities Summer Stipend, Virginia Tech, CLASH, $4000
2015-2016 Incentive Grant, Virginia Tech, CLAHS, $3000
2015-2016 Advisory Committee on International Initiative (DACII), Virginia Tech, $250
2014-2016 ARIMA research grant (co-researcher), $35,488
2014-2016 IRSPUM, Postdoctoral grant, $64,000 (declined)
2014-2015 FQRSC, Postdoctoral grant, $32,000 (declined)
2013-2014 InterActions Research Center, Postdoctoral grant, $32,000
2010-2012 FQRSC, Doctoral grant no. B2-06D-1, $46,666
2010-2012 University of Ottawa Excellency grant, $25,000
2011
University of Ottawa mobility and field research grant, $4,000
2008-2012 University of Ottawa admission grant, $72,000
2005-2006 Laval University mobility grant, $4,000
2005
Laval University foreign language grant (Spanish), $3,500
Software
STATA, SPSS, QDA miner, NVivo, End Note.
Languages French (mother tongue), English, Spanish.
CURRICULUM VITAE – GABRIEL BLOUIN GENEST
Teaching experiences
2015-
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA,
USA)
PSCI 3744, Public Policy Analysis
2014-15
Assistant Professor (limited-term), Department of Political Science, Université de
Moncton (Moncton, New-Brunswick, Canada)
SCPO 3340, Politics and Globalization
SCPO 4350, Seminar in International Relations
SCPO 4139, Federalisms
SCPO 1000, Political science I
SCPO 1010, Political science II
2012-14
Part-time professor, University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada)
POL-4730, Honours Seminar in International Relations and Global Politics
POL-4187, The Politics of International Ethics
POL-4524, The Politics of Security
POL-3560, Health Politics
POL-4542, Applied Political Ethics
2008-2009 Teaching assistantships, University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada)
POL-2103, Introduction to International Relations and Global Politics
POL-1502, Politics and Globalization
POL-2556, Foundations of Research in Political Science
Research experiences
2013-
Postdoctoral fellow, InterActions Research Center/University of Montreal (Canada)
Epidemics and networked governance; Sexually transmitted diseases; Actor Network
Theory.
Co-editing of a book about “networked governance” (to be published at PUL in 2015).
2009-2011 Research coordinator, University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada).
Research Coordinator - Team of 6 people from Canada, the United States and Brazil.
Book editor and co-author.
2011-
Coordinator, RAMPEDRE project.
Permanent online Global Report on the Right to Water, www.rampedre.net.
Implemented by the European Research Institute on Water Policy, supported by UNESCO.
2010-11
Field research, WHO archive (Geneva, Switzerland).
Fieldwork, research and documentary analysis on global health governance at WHO
headquarters.
Visiting Scholar, University of Geneva.
2009
Research assistantship, University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada).
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Comparative analysis of migration policies (Canada, US, France, United Kingdom).
2006-2008 Research assistantship, Laval University (Québec, Canada).
Statistical analysis (STATA, SPSS), data collection. Coordinator for the new edition of a
social sciences research methods book.
PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCES AND EDITIONS
**Translation of documents published in another language than English appears between []**
Peer reviewed articles
Blouin Genest, G. (Revise and resubmit) “The Politics of Infectious Diseases Surveillance and Global
Health Security: Towards a Research Agenda”, submitted to Glocalism Journal of Culture, Politics and
Innovation, submitted July 25th 2015.
Blouin Genest, G. and S. Paquerot (accepted for publication) “Human Rights as an International Political
Battlefield: The New Grammar of International Political Confrontation”, Journal of Human Rights and
Environment.
Blouin Genest, G. and S. Paquerot (accepted for publication) “Les droits humains comme grammaire de
l’en commun” [Human rights as a political grammar for the in-common], Special Issue, SociologieS.
Blouin Genest, G. (2014) “World Health Organization and Disease Surveillance: Jeopardizing Global
Public Health?”, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 1-20.
Blouin Genest, G. (2013) “Risques sanitaires et crises politiques au Canada: La pandémie de H1N1, les
politiques de santé publique au Canada et la gouvernance globale de la santé” [Health Risks and Political
Crises in Canada: The H1N1 Pandemic, Public Health Policy in Canada and Global Health Governance], Études
Internationales, XLIV(2), 197-225.
Blouin Genest, G. (2012) “Le (dé)gout d’un printemps : la construction sociale de la violence et de
l’extrémisme politique lors du conflit étudiant québécois” [The (Dis)taste of a Revolutionary Spring: The
Social Construction of Violence and Political Extremism during the Quebec Student Conflict], Cultures & Conflits,
87, Fall, 160-66.
Blouin Genest, G. (2012) “Le conflit étudiant et social québécois: une épidémie de sens” [Quebec’s Student
and Social Conflict: An Outbreak of Meanings], Cultures & Conflits, 87, Fall 2012 (Forum coordinator).
Blouin Genest, G. (2010), “Vers une géopolitique critique de la santé: espace, altérité et maladies
infectieuses dans les relations internationales” [Towards a Critical Geopolitics of Global Health: Space,
Otherness and Infectious Diseases in International Relations], Dynamiques internationales, 1(03), 1-20.
Books and chapters
Blouin Genest, G. (forthcoming), “Disability Activism: The Body as a Resistance Artefact”, in Orsini, M.
& Kelly, C. (eds.) Canadian Disability Activism Beyond the Charter: Locating Artistic and Cultural Interventions,
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press [in press].
Blouin Genest, G. (2015) “Health Risks and Political Crisis: The 2009-10 H1N1 and the post-crisis
learning processes”, in Schiffino, N et al. Organizing After Crisis: Public Management and Learning Processes,
Bruxelles: Peter Lang, series Public Action.
Blouin Genest, G., Julien, F., and S. Paquerot (2012) L’eau en commun : De ressource naturelle à chose
cosmopolitique [Global Water: From Natural Resources to a Cosmopolitan Good], Québec: Presses de
l’Université du Québec (PUQ).
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Blouin Genest, G. and D. Grondin (2010) “L’empire au cœur des Relations Internationales et l’anglais
comme langue impériale” [The Empire at the Heart of International Relations and English as the Imperial
Language], in Pellerin H. (ed.) La perspective en relations internationales [Perspective in International
Relations], Montreal: Athéna press, 217-249.
Other publications
Blouin Genest, G. (2014) “Le statut juridique des animaux” [The legal status of animals], Relations journal.
Blouin Genest, G. (2012) “Une ‘politique de l’invisible’ : l’accès à l’eau dans les communautés des
Premières Nations au Canada et les enjeux de santé publique” [Invisible’s Policy: Access to Water in First
Nations Communities and Public Health Issues], RAMPEDRE, Global Report on the Right to Water,
European Research Institute on Water Policy.
Blouin Genest, G. and S. Paquerot (2012) “L’eau entre ‘en commun’, ‘droit humain’ et ‘économie globale’ :
une marche vers l’impossible?” [Water between 'Public Good', 'Human Rights' and the 'Global Economy': a
Walk to the Impossible?], RAMPEDRE, Global Report on the Right to Water, European Research Institute on
Water Policy.
Blouin Genest, G. (2012) “Le droit à l'eau dans les législations nationales des Amériques” [The Right to
Water in National Legislations of the Americas], RAMPEDRE, Global Report on the Right to Water,
European Research Institute on Water Policy.
Blouin Genest, G. (2007) “Réforme du PNUE : l'ONUE arrivera-t-elle à contrebalancer l'OMC ?” [The
United Nation Environment Program Reform: The UN Challenged by the WTO], Regard critique, 1(02).
Blouin Genest, G. and A. Parfait (2007) “Les Conservateurs et l'aide publique au développement”
[Conservatism and Development Aid], Regard critique, 1(01).
Conferences
Blouin Genest, G. (submitted) “Health as inequalities: Global and state powers jeopardizing health”,
submitted for the 2016 IPSA meeting.
Blouin Genest, G. (submitted) “Technologies and public health surveillance in the US”, submitted for the
2016 IPSA meeting.
Blouin Genest, G. (forthcoming) “Technologies and public health surveillance in the US: a policy
appraisal”, accepted for the 2016 SPSA meeting
Blouin Genest, G. (2015) “Que devient la sécurité internationale et le risque dans le contexte des
épidémies sanitaires contemporaines?” [What happens to international security in the context of global
pandemics?] Société Québécoise de Science Politique (SQSP), May 2015.
Blouin Genest, G (2014) Freedom of speech and surveillance in Canada, Guest Speaker, Agora Conference,
November 20th 2014.
Blouin Genest, G. (2014) “Global Health Risks and Political Crisis: Governing Risks or Risky
Governance?”, Atlantic Province Political Science Association, October 3-5, Saint Johns, NF (Canada).
Blouin Genest, G. (2014) “Health Risks and Political Crisis: The 2009-10 H1N1 and the Post-Crisis
Learning Processes”, Université Catholique de Louvain (Mons, Belgium).
Blouin Genest, G. (2014) “Disability Activism: The Body as a Resistance Artefact”, Canadian Disability
Activism Beyond the Charter, March 17-18th, Ottawa (Canada).
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Blouin Genest, G. (2013) “L'utilisation des méthodes mixtes pour appréhender la complexité des enjeux
de santé publique” [The Use of Mixed Methods to Understand the Complexity of Public Health Issues], for the
conference “Health and society”, Rennes (France), November 20th.
Blouin Genest, G. (2013) “Les frontières de la communauté et du commun” [The frontiers of the common
good], Bien commun et participation, Ottawa (Canada), March 25th.
Blouin Genest, G. (2012) “L’OMS et les politiques internationales de la santé publique : entre pouvoir,
souveraineté et gouvernance globale” [WHO and International Public Health Policies: Between Power,
Sovereignty and Global Governance], SQSP, Ottawa (Canada).
Blouin Genest, G. (2010) “The WHO on Stage: Viral Aestheticism, Diseases Iconography and the World
Health Organization as a Cultural Carrier”, Toronto (Canada).
Blouin Genest, G. (2010) “Hijacking the Clinic: (Re)Positioning Body, Border and Bugs in Global
Health”, CPSA-ACPS, Montréal (Canada).
Blouin Genest, G. (2010) “Surveillance Anatomy: Disease, Space and Power in Global Health”, 2010
American Association of Geographers annual meeting, Association of American Geographers, Washington,
DC (United States).
Blouin Genest, G. (2010) “Surveillance Anatomy: Disease, Space and Power in Global Health”, YCISS,
Toronto (Canada).
Blouin Genest, G. (2009) “La gouvernance sécuritaire de la santé et la surveillance des maladies
infectieuses” [Global Health Security and International Health Surveillance], ACFAS, Ottawa (Canada).
Organizing Events
Blouin Genest, G. (2015) “La sécurité sanitaire globale: Comment penser la sécurité internationale à
l’aune des épidémies contemporaines?” ?” [What happens to international security in the context of global
pandemics?] Société Québécoise de Science Politique (SQSP), May 2015.
Coordinator, UMoncton student delegation to the 2015 European Parliament simulation, August 2015.
Organizer, conference “Transnational mobilization of aboriginal groups”, Université de Moncton,
November 28th 2014.
Moderator, 2014 provincial elections electoral debate, Université de Moncton, September 11th 2014.
Coordinator, Cinema Politica, Université de Moncton (2014-2015).
Coordinator, workshop on networked governance, InterActions research center, Mars 20th 2014 (Montréal,
Canada).
Organizer, conference “International Security Issues”, The Honorable David Collenette, ex Defense
Minister of Canada, November 23th 2012 (University of Ottawa).
Organizer, conference “The 2012 World Water Forum: What Challenges for Rio+20”, Mars 22th 2012
(University of Ottawa).
Coordinator, international conference: Norm and Exception: Between Obedience, Existence and Resistance”,
October 7-8th 2010 (University of Ottawa).
Chair of the panel “Infectious Disease, Politics, and Discourse at Multiple Scales”, 2010 American Association
of Geographers annual meeting, 2010 (Washington, DC, United States).
Organizer of the panel “Disturbing the Barbershop Harmony: Uses – and Abuses – of Popular Culture in
International Relations”, Popular Culture and World Politics, 2010 (Toronto, Canada).
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Chair of the panel “Canadian Critical Security Studies: Present Productions and Future Directions”, CPSAACPS (Montréal) 2010.
Media and edition
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TV show guest, The politics of the Ukrainian conflict, TV rogers.
Peer reviewer for Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and
Medicine.
Editor of L’approche réseau et son application. L’analyse des réseaux dans la recherche sociale
appliquée, pertinence et diversité des approches [The Network Approach and its Application. Network
Analysis in Social Research, Relevance and Diversity of Approaches].
Member of the editing committee, Relations journal.
Forum coordinator, Cultures & Conflits journal.
Book editing and co-authoring for the book L’eau en commun, published at PUQ (2012).
Board member for the La Rotonde journal,
Coordinator for the new edition of a social sciences research method book: Pétry, F. and F.
Gélineau (2009) Guide pratique d'introduction à la régression en sciences sociales [Practical
Introductory Guide to Regression in Social Sciences], Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval.
Radio host, L’aval international, CHYZ 94,3.
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