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Netina Tan

Netina Tan

Associate Professor | Department of Political Science

Netina Tan

Netina Tan is an Associate Professor of Political Science Department at McMaster University in Canada. Her research focuses on the sources of authoritarian resilience and the political representation of women and ethnic minorities, digital media and democracy in Asia, and globally. She has recently co-edited and published “The Palgrave Handbook of Women’s Political Rights” with Susan Francheschet and Mona Lena Krook (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019). Her work has appeared in Electoral Studies, International Political Science Review, Politics and Gender, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Pacific Affairs and other university presses. Her research has been funded by Social Science and Humanities Research Council, International Development Research Centre; the American Council of Learned Societies and Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation. For more information, visit her personal website here.

Sara Bannerman

Sara Bannerman

Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia

Sara Bannerman

Sara Bannerman, Canada Research Chair in Communication Policy and Governance, is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at McMaster University in Canada.  She researches and teaches on communication policy and governance.  She has published two books on international copyright: International Copyright and Access to Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and The Struggle for Canadian Copyright: Imperialism to Internationalism, 1842-1971 (UBC Press, 2013), as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on international copyright, privacy, and other topics in new media, traditional media, and communications theory. Bannerman leads McMaster’s Communications Governance Observatory.

Tony Porter

Tony Porter

Professor | Department of Political Science

Tony Porter

Tony Porter is Professor of Political Science at McMaster University. His research focuses on new public, private, and technical forms of transnational governance. His most recent books are Time, Globalization and Human Experience: Interdisciplinary Explorations. London: Routledge, co-edited with Paul Huebener, Paul, Susie O’Brien, Liam Stockdale, and Rachel Zhou (2017); his edited Financial Regulation after the Global Financial Crisis (2014); and Transnational Financial Associations and the Governance of Global Finance: Assembling Power and Wealth (2013), coauthored with Heather McKeen-Edwards, all with Routledge. His current research on “Numbers in the Changing Fabric of Transnational Governance”, which explores the role of rankings, risk models, algorithms, and other numerical technologies in governance, is funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.