Faculty Profile - Heather Exner-Pirot

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Designations

• PhD, University of Calgary
• MA, Memorial University of Newfoundland
• BA (High Honours), University of Saskatchewan

Areas of Interest

• Northern development
• Regionalization
• Human security
• Circumpolar relations

Recent Grants/Awards

• SSHRC, Aid to Research Workshops (2012)             
• DFAIT, Circumpolar Fellowship (2010)                                    
• University of Calgary, QEII Graduate Scholarship (2010)    
• DFAIT, Circumpolar Fellowship (2009)                                    
• Northern Research Forum, Young Researcher (2008)         
• Canadian Consortium for Human Security, Human Security Fellowship (2008)                         
• SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (2008)                                                          
• SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (2007)             

Select Publications

• Exner-Pirot, Heather.  "Human Security in the Arctic: The Foundation of Regional Cooperation", Munk-Gordon Working Papers on Human Security, No.1, July 2012. [http://gordonfoundation.ca/publication/537]
• Exner-Pirot, Heather.  “Defense Diplomacy in the Arctic: The Search and Rescue Agreement as a Confidence Builder”, Canadian Journal of Foreign Policy, Volume 18, Issue 2, 2012.
• Huebert, Rob , Heather Exner-Pirot, Adam Lajeunesse and Jay Gulledge. “Climate Change and International Security: The Arctic as a Bellwether.”  Arlington, Virginia: Centre for Climate and Energy Solutions, 2012, [http://www.c2es.org/publications/climate-change-international-arctic-security].
• Exner-Pirot, Heather.  “The Arctic in International Affairs: Security in the Circumpolar Region”.  PhD Thesis.  University of Calgary, Department of Political Science.  Defense passed September 27, 2011.
• Exner-Pirot, Heather.  “Canadian Leadership in the Circumpolar World: An Agenda for the Arctic Council Chairmanship 2013–2015”, Northern Review No. 33, Spring 2011.

Current Research

• Dependency and taxation
• Northern governance
• Northern greenhouses and food security
• Arctic regional governance
• Aboriginal economic development