About
Mark B. Salter is a full professor of international relations at the School of Political Studies, and Vice-Dean Research, Faculty of Social Science, University of Ottawa. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Security Dialogue, a Q1 ranked journal in international relations and political science.
Salter taught at the American University in Cairo (2000-2003) after completing a PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia (1999). He joined the University of Ottawa in 2003, getting tenure in 2007, and promoted to full professor in 2012. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre of International Studies and a Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at the University of Cambridge(2008). He was also awarded the International Political Sociology Distinguished Scholar (2022).
He has written and edited nine books, including Making Things International 1, Making Things International 2, Research Methods in Critical Security Studies (2nd edition) with Philippe Frowd and Can Mutlu, and Politics at the Airport, among others.
Salter has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in international relations theory, critical security studies, and geopolitics. He received the 2014 Canadian Political Science Association Prize for Excellence in Teaching, as well as the National Capital Educator’s Award and the University of Ottawa’s Excellence in Education.
Salter has been a mentor with the Centre for Academic Excellence for 11 years, and is currently Vice-Dean Research for the Faculty of Social Science.
ORCID: Mark B. Salter
Focus
Critical Security Studies
International Political Sociology
Arctic Security
Border and aviation security
New Materialism
Top Publications
Research Methods in Critical Security Studies 2nd edition. Mark B. Salter, Philippe Frowd, Can Mutlu eds. NY: Routledge 2023.
“Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared” American Political Science Review (forthcoming) 2023.
“Race and Racism in Critical Security Studies” with Emily Gilbert, Jairus Grove, Jana Honke, Doerthe Rosenow, Anna Stavrianakis, Maria Stern. Security Dialogue 51(1) 2021.
“Horizon Scan: Critical Security Studies for the Next 50 Years” Security Dialogue 50. (4) 2019: 3-8.
“Arctic Security, Territory, Population: Canadian Sovereignty and the International” International Political Sociology 13(4) 2019: 358-374
“Border security as practice: an agenda for research”,with Karine Coté-Boucher, Federica Infantino. Security Dialogue 45(3) 2014: 195-208,
“When the exception becomes the rule: borders, sovereignty, citizenship”, Citizenship Studies 12(4) 2008: 365-380.
“Imagining Numbers: Risk, Quantification and Aviation Security”, Security Dialogue 39(2/3) 2008: 243-266.
“Governmentalities of an airport: heterotopia and confession”, International Political Sociology, 1(1) 2007: 49-67.
“Passports, Mobility, and Security: How Smart Can the Border Be?”, International Studies Perspectives 5(1) 2004: 71-91.
Get in touch!
Faculty of Social Sciences
120 University
Social Sciences Building, Room 7007
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5
Email: mark.salter@uottawa.ca