Professor Cynthia Alexander
Curriculum Vitae 2005
Dr. Cynthia Jacqueline AlexanderAssociate Professor
Department of Political Science
AcadiaUniversity
BeveridgeArtsCenter 318
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Canada B0P 1X0
Phone (902) 585 1451
Fax (902) 585 1070
email:
URL:
Education
1984-1987Ph.D.
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Dissertation: The Administrative Politics of EDP in the Three Prairie
Governments
Supervisor: Professor E.R. Black
Areas:Comparative Politics;
Canadian Politics;
Public Administration/Public Policy
1981-1982M.A.
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Thesis: Lougheed's `Energetic' Bureaucrats: A Study of Senior Civil
Servants in Province-Building Departments
Supervisor:Professor F.C. Engelmann
Areas: Political Theory; Public Administration; Canadian Politics
1978-1981B.A. (4 year) with distinction
University of Alberta
Major: Political Science; Minor: English
Other Academic Institutions Attended:
1983-1984French American Study Centre, Lisieux, France
Diploma, CaenUniversity
andUniversity of Paris IV, Paris
1981Institute of Balkan Studies, Diploma, Thessaloniki, Greece
Academic Employment
1999 – presentAssociate Professor
Department of Political Science
AcadiaUniversity, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
1999 - 2002Co-Director, Research and Graduate Studies
AcadiaUniversity, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
1995 – 1999Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
AcadiaUniversity, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
1991-1995Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Political Studies
and The School of Policy Studies
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
1988-1992Assistant Professor
Centre for Administrative and Information Studies
University of WesternOntario, London, Ontario
1984-1986Teaching Assistant, Queen's University
1983-1984Alberta Legislative Intern, Edmonton, Alberta
1982-1983Teaching Assistant, The University of Alberta
Relevant Professional Experience
1993Executive Director, The Institute for Innovation
LGS Group Inc., Ottawa, Canada
May 1988 - August 1988
Researcher, Acting Director
Centre for the Study of Management and Native Self-Government
First Nations' Resource Council, Edmonton, Alberta
September 1987 - April 1988
Acting Director
Research Officer II
Legislative Research Services Section
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES
1995 –
Department of Political Science, AcadiaUniversity
POLS 1006Introduction to Politics and Government
POLS 2076Politics of Difference…and the Politics of Making a Difference
POLS 2096 Comparative Politics and Government
POLS 3013 Gender and Politics
POLS 3103The Politics of French Canada
POLS 3703 Issues in Canadian Politics
POLS 3703Focus on Multiculturalism in Canada
POLS 3703Focus on Indigenous Peoples in Canada
POLS 3993X2 Digital Democracy
POLS 4803X1Canadian Public Policy
Senior Reading Courses:
POLS 4913 Native Politics in Canada-Mary Nicholas (4th year)
POLS 49131) Artificial Intelligence and Politics -- Amber Clark (4th year honours)
2) Women and the Charter -- Ana Rebolone (M.A.)
POLS 4913Nunavut: Sustainable Community Development (Fidel Castro, 4th yr)
POLS 4913 Reading Course in Information and Democratic Politics
(Krista Spurr-4th year honours)
1994-1995
Dept. of Political Studies, Queen's University:
POLS 511Politics, Policy and Information/Communication Studies
POLS 210Introduction to Canadian Politics and Government
1993-1994
Cross-listed between the School of Policy Studies and the Dept. of Political Studies, Queen's University:
POLS Politics, Policy and the New Metamedia
POLS Intergovernmental Affairs (graduate level)
1992- 1993
Dept. of Political Studies, Queen's University:
POLS 414/814Politics in Quebec
POLSComparative Public Policy (full year)
POLSPolitics, Policy and the New Metamedia
School of Public Administration, Queen's University
POLS 850Assessment of Quantitative Methods (M.P.A. level)
PADMContemporary Health Care Organizations (M.P.A. level)
1991- 1992
Centre for Administrative and Information Studies, U.W.O.:
CAIS 164Decision-Making (3rd and 4th yr.)
CAIS 164Policy Issues in the Information Society (3rd and 4th yr.)
Dept. of Political Studies, Queen's University:
POLSThe Politics of Communication
POLS 471/871Science, Technology and Public Policy
School of Public Administration, Queen's University:
PADM 846Information Technology in the Workplace (M.P.A. level)
1988- 1991
Centre for Administrative and Information Studies, U.W.O.:
CAIS 164Decision Analysis
CAIS 164Policy Issues in the Wired Society
UNDERGRADUATE THESIS SUPERVISION:
2000-2001Melanie Arsenault, Aboriginal Women, Sentencing Circles and Restorative Justice, Dept. of Political Science, AcadiaUniversity
1999-2000Lesley-Anne Noseworthy, The Politics of Nursing in Canada, Dept. of Political Science, AcadiaUniversity
Katie Green, Environmental Politics and Discursive Democracy, Dept. of Political Science, AcadiaUniversity
1998-1999Amber Clark, x Distortions of Construction: A Socialist Feminist Critique of
Artificial Intelligence, Dept. of Political Science, AcadiaUniversity.
1995-1996Diana Brewster, Recipient: Honours Thesis Research Grant, Dept. of Political
Science, AcadiaUniversity.
Greg Clarke, New Grammar for Public Discourse: New Information and Communications Technologies in the Public Sphere, Dept. of Political Science, AcadiaUniversity.
Tracy Noftle, The Malpractice of Technology: A Symptom, Not a Solution in Health Care, Policy, Dept. of Political Science, AcadiaUniversity (winner of the 1997 CPA student essay award).
Krista Spurr, Big Brother Comes of Age: Protecting Privacy in the New Electronic Information Order, Dept. of Political Science, AcadiaUniversity.
1993-1994Chris Edwards, Seductive Technologies: Politics, the Media and the Information Society, Dept. of Political Studies, Queen's University.
1995-1997Second Reader of Numerous Honours Theses at AcadiaUniversity.
GRADUATE THESIS SUPERVISION:
M.A. Thesis and M.P.A. Essay Supervision
1998-1999Ana Rebolone, Subject: Unchartered Waters, Dept. of Political Science, AcadiaUniversity.
1996-1998Krista Spurr, Pandora's Box, Dept. of Political Science, AcadiaUniversity.
1993-1994Major Randall Comis, Information Technology and the Workplace, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Queen's University.
Second Reader of M.P.A. Essays at Queen’s University
1993Margaret Willott, Graduate School of Public Administration, Queen's University.
Victor Trotman, Graduate School of Public Administration, Queen's University.
S. Fitzpatrick, Graduate School of Public Administration, Queen's University.
Initial Supervision of Ph.D. Dissertation:
1993-1994Alison Andrukuw, Subject Field: The Canadian Information Superhighway, Dept. of Political Studies, Queen's University.
PARTICIPATION ON GRADUATE DEFENCE BOARDS
M.A. Thesis Defence Boards, Department of Political Science, AcadiaUniversity
1996 Tom Daley
1996 Theresa O'Keefe
1996 Brock Gibbs
Ph.D. Defence Board
1994 Ted Glenn, Dept. of Political Studies, Queen's University
Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination Board
1992 James P. Groen
BOOKS IN PRINT:
1998Digital Democracy: Policy and Politics in the Wired World, co-edited with Leslie A. Pal (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998).
1997A Stake in the Future: Redefining the Canadian Mineral Industry, co-authored with Mary
Louise McAllister (Vancouver: UBC Press, Spring 1997 hardcover; Summer 1997 paperback).
BOOKLENGTH MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS
1996- presentThe Digital Leviathan: Redefining Political Boundaries in the Wired World, co-authored with C.M. Alexander [near completion].
1996- presentAltered States? Information and Communication Technologies in the Service of Canada’s Indigenous Peoples
BOOK CHAPTERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Northern Exposure: Assessing Citizenship, Democracy and the Great Canadian e-Government Expedition,” in Technikfolgenabschätzung, (Ingrid von Berg, Editor) accepted, forthcoming.
"Control, Alt, Delete? Feminist Pedagogy and the DigitalAcademy," in Inside Corporate U: Women in the Academy Speak Out, Marilee Reimer, ed., (Sumach Press, 2004) pp 286 - 307.
"Wiring the Nation: Including First Nations?" in Journal of Canadian Studies, Reforming Canada's Political Institutions, vol. 35, no. 4, 2001
"Digital Leviathan: The Emergence of E-politics in Canada," in Hugh Thorburn and Alan Whitehorn, Party Politics in Canada, (Prentice-Hall, 2001).
"Cents and Sensibility: The Emergence of e-government in Canada," in Leslie A. Pal, ed.., in How Ottawa Spends (Oxford University Press, May 2000).
"'Digital Leviathan': Canadian Federal Party Politics in the Wired World," in Hugh Thorburn and Alan Whitehorn, Party Politics in Canada, (Prentice-Hall, forthcoming).
“Party ‘On’: Party Politics in the Wired World at the Century’s End,” in Hugh Thorburn and Alan Whitehorn, Party Politics in Canada
"Lost in Space? Canadian Women and Aboriginal People in a Wired World," in John Armitage and Joanne Roberts, eds., Cyber Futures: Society, Culture, Politics and Economics (The Athlone Press forthcoming).
"The Digital Agora: Interaction and Learning in Political Science," C.Watters, M.Conley, and C.Alexander, Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning, Vol. 1, Issue 1, May 1999,
"The Whitehorse Mining Initiative," InternationalDevelopmentResearchCenter's Mining Policy Research Initiative Virtual Library, July 31, 1999
"The Digital Agora: Using Technology for Learning in the Social Sciences," C.Watters, M.Conley, and C.Alexander, Communications of the ACM, 41, 1 (Jan. 1998), 51-57.
"The Cutting Edge? Ethical, Legal, and Gender Implications of High-Tech Health Care," C. J. Alexander and Sue Stafford (Boston College), C. J. Alexander and L. Pal., eds., Digital Democracy: Policy and Politics in the Wired World, ch. 10 (Oxford University Press, March 1998).
"Plugging in to New Currents: The Use of New Information and Communication Technologies in Party Politics," Hugh Thorburn, ed. Party Politics in Canada, 7th ed. (Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice-Hall, 1996, pp. 594-610).
"Putting the Byte on Canadian Social Welfare Agencies," Computers and Society, Vol. 20, No. 3, October 1990, pp 13 - 19.
CD-ROM, DVDAND COMPANION WEBSITE
2005Nunavut Policy Symposium: Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of Canada’s Newest Territory, A DVD of the 3 day SSHRC funded policy symposium at AcadiaUniversity, May 2004.
Companion website:
1999The Digital Agora URL:
1998; 1997 "The Digital Agora" with Dr. M. W. Conley and Dr. C. Watters.
PUBLISHED CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PROCEEDINGS
1994“High-Tech, High-Stakes: The Cutting Edge of Technological Innovation in Health Care," Health and Behaviour 1994: Papers and Proceedings of the Conference, Health and Behaviour 1994, Mark Rosenberg, ed., Queen's University.
1991“Government Computing and Social Welfare," Seminar in Communications and Information Technology, Queen's University, Working Paper #22.
1991“Circuits, Wizadry and Wisdom: Democratic Processes and New Information Technologies," Canadian Workplace Automation Research Centre, Department of Communications Canada, Ottawa.
PAPERS PRESENTED AS SCHOLARLY MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
2004“The Politics of Identity and Federal Citizenship in Canada’s Digital Frontier,” a paper presented at Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, in Karlstad, Sweden, July.
2004“Cultural Compass: Education and Technological Development in Nunavut”, paper presented at the tri-annual meeting of the International Arctic Social Sciences in Fairbanks, Alaska in May.
2003“Culture.com: First Nations ICT Development Model,” International Knowledge-based Economy Conference, MemorialUniversity, October.
2000Co-Convenor (with Dr. Alon Peled, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Paper Presenter, "The Digital Agora: Teaching Politics in a Wired Classroom," in Harnessing the Internet and Multimedia revolution for enhanced political science curricula, a panel (SS72) at the International Political Science Association meeting, August 2000, Quebec City.
2000 with Dr. Preyra, "Like Salmon Swimming Upstream: Canadian Aboriginal Women and Resortative Justice", a paper presented at the International Political Science Association meeting, August 2000, Quebec City.
2000“E-governance: Assessing the Canadian Federal Government’s Initiatives,” at the annual Canadian Centre for Management Development’s University Seminar, Ottawa, May 2000.
2000“Technological Infrastructures to Support Decentralized Public Service and Governance in Nunavut,” at the national conference, “The Making of Nunavut,” LavalUniversity, March 2000, Quebec City.
1999Keynote Speaker, “Exploring Cyber Society” Conference, Newcastle, England. July 5 - 7, 1999
1999“The WWW and the Extension of the Mi’kmaq Community,” presented at the Association canadienne litterature compare (ACLC), as Congress 1999, Sherbrooke, Quebec, June 1999
1999Keynote Speaker, “BridgingIslands of Marginalization in a Sea of Technological Change,” presented at the Islands and Small Governments Conference sponsored by UNESCO, the Commonwealth Secretariate, and the World Bank, Malta, March 1999
1998"The Digital Agora: Pushing the Web Envelope," C.Watters, M.Shepherd, C.Alexander, and M.Conley, HICSS'31 Conference, Hawaii, January 6-9.
1997"Challenges and Choices in Designing a Collaborative, Computer-Mediated Social Science Classroom," M.Conley, C.Alexander, and C.Watters, Ed-Media/Ed-Telecom 97 Conference. Calgary, June 14-19.
1996"Making Waves: Interest Groups Surf the Net and Turf the Political Boundaries," a paper presented with L. Preyra at the international conference, Order and Disorder, Atlantic Provinces' Political Science Association meeting, Acadia University.
1996"Democracy Bytes Back?" co-authored with Leonard Preyra, a paper presented at the plenary session of the annual meeting of the British Columbia Political Science Association, Prince George, B.C.
1996"Wiring the Nations: Aboriginal People Log On and Reach Out," a paper presented at the annual meeting of the British Columbia Political Science Association, Prince George, B.C.
1996"Democracy in the New Information Age," Direct Democracy: We Have the Technology, 1996 Spring Conference of the Canadian Study of Parliament Group, Halifax, N.S.
1996"Cyber-naughts and the Search for Generation whY," paper presented at a Roundtable session, Democracy and the New Technologies: Challenges and Potential, at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, St. Catherine's.
1995"The Impact of Information Technology on Public Administration," Tuning in the North: Telecommunications Opportunities National Conference, U.N.B.C..
1995"Examining Technology's Growing Pains," Tuning in the North: Telecommunications Opportunities National Conference, U.N.B.C.
1994"High-Tech, High Stakes," 1994 Health and Behaviour Conference, Queen's University, published proceedings.
1992"The Digital Leviathan: Information Technology and Public Policy in Canada," a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association.
1990"Putting the Byte on Social Welfare Agencies," a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Victoria.
1990"Putting the Byte on Social Welfare Agencies in Canada," a paper presented to the Association for Computing Machinery's conference on Computers and the Quality of Life, Washington, D.C.
1989"Computers: Altering the Design and Delivery of Social Welfare," a paper presented at the Fourth Annual Conference on Social Welfare, Toronto.
1989"Machines and Their Milieu: Computers in Government," a paper prsented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Laval.
1988"Computer Neutrality in Social Services," a paper presented jointly with Dr. E. R. Black at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association.
COMMISSIONED RESEARCH INITIATIVES RESULTING IN SUBMISSION OF A MAJOR REPORT
1995-1996International Bibliography of Federalism, general editor, The Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University.
1994Principal Investigator, Resource Analysis: A Bibliography on Social, Economic and Political Aspects of Mining in Canada, Centre for Resource Studies, Queen's University.
1993The Information Polity, 110 page policy paper and full-day workshop for senior Justice Canada officials, Justice Canada.
1990The Information Edge (Justice 2000: A Policy Perspective), policy paper, Justice Canada.
SELECTED--BY RANGE OF AUDIENCES--INVITED PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
2003 Invited speech, “Digital Footprints in the Snow: Canada’s E-Government Strategy”, Institute for Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Science and Technology, Vienna, December.
2003“Digital Cultures: First Nations and Cultural Connections,” paper presented, at the Civil Society forum meetings during the UN World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva, Dec.
2003Invited Participant, E-Governance, NRC/SSHRC symposium, UNB, October.
2003Invited International Expert, "Assessing Canada's e-Governance Initiatives," European Commission’s Management Committee (MC) and Working Group Members of COST Action A14 Governance and Democracy in the Information Age, Brussels. June.
2003Invited Keynote Speaker, E-Learning and First Nations Educators, “Learn Today for Tomorrow Conference,” Kenjewin Teg Educational Institute, Sudbury. March.
2003Invited Panelist, “Active-based Learning in the DigitalAcademy,” “Learn Today for Tomorrow Conference,” Kenjewin Teg Educational Institute, Sudbury. March.
2001Invited Panelist, Queen’s University-CBC Newsworld Forum on the Media, October.
2001Invited Participant, the Canada-UnitedKingdom Colloquium on “The E-Connected World,” Wiston House, Wilton Part in West Sussex, UK, November. (hospitalized in London)
2001Invited Keynote Panelist on E-Government, Institute of Public Administration of Canada, Edmonton, Alberta.
2000Invited Speaker, the inaugural event on Canadian Electoral Reform, Centre for Representation and Elections, CarletonUniversity.
2000Invited Speaker, “e-Government in Canada,” AnnualUniversity Seminar, Canadian Centre for Management Development, Ottawa.
2000Keynote Speaker, “e-Governance in Canada,” Public Policy Forum, National Press Club.
2000Invited Speaker, “The Making of Nunavut,” National Conference, Université Laval.
1999"The Paradigm Shift: the Need for New Responses," Canadian Association for Community Education, Halifax, May 20 -23.
1997"Technology and Democracy," keynote speaker, Telecommunities `97, a national conference, Halifax (August).
1997"Strategic Considerations for Digital Technology in the Service of Canada's First Nations' Peoples," Invitation to present a paper and prepare an afternoon workshop for a national meeting of First Nations' Chiefs organized by the Assembly of First Nations, Ottawa (February).
1996Invited to appear before the federal Liberal Caucus' National Information Technology Task Force, Halifax (December).
1995"Live Wires and Poor Connections: Managing Change in High-tech Public Administration," keynote speaker, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Law Librarians, Regina, Saskatchewan.
1994"Change Management and Electronic Data Interchange," EDI and Re-Engineering: The Cutting Edge of Electronic Commerce, The EDI Group Canada, Ltd.' 11th Advanced EDI Strategies Conference, Toronto.
1993"Innovation and Technological Change in the Canadian Federal Government," The Institute for Informatics Professionals, Government of Canada.
1993"Digital Politics: Politics, Policy and the Wired World," Kingston Rotary Club.
1992May 14, seminar speaker, "Strategic Management of Information Resources in the Public Sector," A Canada-U.S. Conference, The National Chapter of the Planning Forum, The International Society for Strategic Management and Plannning, Ottawa.
1991"Falling off the Information Edge in Public Administration," a paper presented to students in the Masters of Public Administration Program, Queen's University.
1990"'Current' Issues Arising from Technological Change in Contemporary Public Administration," presentation made to Masters of Public Administration students at the University of Western Ontario.
1990"Political Implications of Genetic Testing," presentation made at an inter-disciplinary conference on Genetics Testing and Privacy, sponsored by the Westminster Institute for Ethics and Human Values, U.W.O.
1989"Computers in Prairie Social Welfare Departments," an invited paper presented to provincial and federal senior public officials at the National Conference on Management Information systems, Health and Welfare Canada, Victoria, B.C.
POSTER DEMONSTRATION
2005with Dr. Dianne Looker (PI) and the “Tech Equity” INE SSHRC Team at the SSHRC Research Showcase event for senior policy officials, Chateau Laurier, February.
1997with Dr. M. W. Conley and Dr. C. Watters, "The Digital Agora: Education is not a spectator sport," ED-Media/ED-Telecom 97, World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia, World Conference on Educational Telecommunications, University of Calgary, Calgary, 16 June 1997.
DISCUSSANT AT CONFERENCES
1999on Barry Wellman's report, "Networked Organizations in a Wired World," at the Analysing the Trends National Policy Research Initiative Conference, SSHRC-Policy Research Secretariate, November 1999, Ottawa.