Ravi de Costa
Biographical Information
Ravi de Costa is Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University,
Toronto, Canada. Ravi de Costa’s research and teaching interests are in comparative and
global approaches to the legacies of colonialism and Indigenous politics. He completed
undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Australia, obtaining a BA in Government and public
administration from the University of Sydney and a PhD in Politics from Swinburne
University in Melbourne. His PhD dissertation was a comparative study of treaty-making
in Canada and reconciliation in Australia. In 2003-2004 he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship
at the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University,
Hamilton, Canada, where he conducted research on indigenous transnationalism. For the
last several years he has participated in an SSHRC-funded Major Collaborative Research
Initiative on the topic of Globalization and Autonomy. As part of that interdisciplinary
project, he is co-editing a volume entitled Insights for a Globalizing World: Indigenous Peoples,
Relations and Autonomy. http://www.yorku.ca/fes/index.asp. Prior to joining FES in
2007, he taught in the Department of Political Studies at Trent University in Ontario. |
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