RESEARCH GROUP

KATHY MEILLEUR
Kathy Meilleur
Ph.D Student
kahmeil@gmail.com

Kathy Meilleur is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Concordia University. Holding a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and International Law and a Master's degree in Political Science (UQAM) in which she focused on violence in the Nigerian Niger delta, her current research is concentrated on violence in the Jamaican society. Dr. Tina Hilgers is her thesis director.

Fields of interest
Violence
Music, culture and politics
Social inequalities
Indigenous peoples
Régions : Caribbean (Jamaica), Latin America and Africa (Nigeria)

Publications
Meilleur, Kathy. 2010. " Les pratiques de la RSE révisées par un examen de la malédiction des ressources: Contribution de la littérature sur la région du delta du Niger ", in Revue Canadienne des études africaines / Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 39-55.