Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay Explained

Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay
Birth Place:Jammu and Kashmir, India
Nationality:Canadian
Thesis Title:State-Centered Policy Analysis in India
Thesis Year:1990
Discipline:Political science
Sub Discipline:Comparative politics

Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay (born 1950) is a Canadian political scientist and former senior academic administrator. She is an internationally recognized expert[1] on Kashmir and India-Pakistan.

Biography

Tremblay is Professor Emerita of Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. She was born in Jammu and Kashmir, India, obtained an MPhil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and MA and PhD from the University of Chicago (1990).[2] She is among the 50 prominent Indo-Canadians whose biographies appear in the Indian diaspora publication the A-List.[3] [4]

Work

Her writings on Kashmir and India–Pakistan relations, a subject on which she is considered to be a leading North American expert, are widely reviewed and cited.[1] [5] Her research deals with secessionist movements (Kashmir) in South Asia, identity-based politics, secessionist movements, the politics of subaltern resistance and accommodation in post-colonial societies, democracy and governance, primarily in the South Asian context.[6] She has authored or co-authored eight books and over 60 articles and reviews.

Tremblay has held senior academic administrative positions in Canada: Vice-President Academic and Provost at the University of Victoria,[7] Vice-President (Academic) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (pro tempore) at Memorial University of Newfoundland; earlier, she was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Memorial University,[8] and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Concordia University, Montreal which she is credited with having re-built and raised to the ranks of the stronger such departments in Canada.[9] While at Memorial University, she helped found what has become the highly successful[10] SPARKS Literary Festival with noted Canadian poet Mary Dalton in 2009.[11]

She is past president of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA),[12] of the Canadian Asian Studies Association (CASA),[13] and the former Canadian Council Area Studies Learned Societies (CCASLS).[14] She has also been on editorial boards of PS: Political Science & Politics[15] American Political Science Association, Pacific Affairs, Canadian Journal of Law and Society and Politics and Governance.

Tremblay is associated with the Centre d’études et de recherche sur l'Inde, l'Asie du Sud et sa diaspora (CERIAS)[16] at the Université du Québec à Montréal, is a CAPI Associate at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, an associate fellow at the University of Victoria Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, a founding member of the Global South Asia Forum at the University of Victoria and a non-resident fellow at the Society for Policy Studies (SPS), New Delhi.[17] During the 2016 and 2017 summer terms, she was a visiting scholar at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London.In 2015, she was a visiting fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study at Wassenaar.

Selected bibliography

(https://www.routledge.com/Religion-and-Politics-in-Jammu-and-Kashmir/Tremblay-Bhatia/p/book/9780367510688)

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tremblay, Reeta Chowdhari. 2019-05-12. SAGE Publications Inc. hi. 2019-05-18.
  2. Web site: Reeta Tremblay - University of Victoria. UVic.ca. en. 2019-05-18.
  3. The A-List, Ed. Ajit Jain, The Society for Policy Studies, New Delhi
  4. Web site: Indo-Canadian A-Listers excel in many ways South Asian Post Indo Canadian newspaper - Vancouver, Surrey, Calgary, Toronto, Brampton, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal. Southasianpost.com. 2019-05-18.
  5. Web site: Podium: Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay. Cpac.ca. 21 May 2019.
  6. Web site: Reeta Tremblay University of Victoria, Victoria UVIC Political Science. ResearchGate.net. en. 2019-05-18.
  7. Web site: Indian federalism expert to be VPAC - University of Victoria. UVic.ca. 21 May 2019.
  8. Nfld. school charges political interference; Memorial's board breaks its silence in controversy over government's role in search for new president. Toronto Star; Toronto, Ont. 07 Aug 2008: A.17.
  9. Web site: Concordia's Thursday Report. Ctr.concordia.ca. 21 May 2019.
  10. Web site: SPARKS ready to fly at MUN this weekend. 20 January 2012. 21 May 2019.
  11. Web site: SPARKS fly in January. Mun.ca. 21 May 2019.
  12. Web site: Memorial VP named president-elect of CPSA. Mun.ca. 21 May 2019.
  13. Web site: Canadian Asian Studies Association | UIA Yearbook Profile | Union of International Associations.
  14. Web site: Canadian Council for Area Studies Learned Societies - 2007-2008 IDRC - International Development Research Centre . www.idrc.ca . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20171214162705/https://www.idrc.ca/en/project/canadian-council-area-studies-learned-societies-2007-2008 . 2017-12-14.
  15. Committees of the American Political Science Association. PS: Political Science & Politics. 2005. 38. 2. 345–353. 10.1017/S1049096505056702. 233339642.
  16. Web site: Bienvenue - Centre d'études et de recherche sur l'Inde, l'Asie du Sud et sa diaspora (CERIAS) - UQAM. Cerias.uqam.ca. 21 May 2019.
  17. Web site: Society for Policy Studies. Society for Policy Studies.

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