Faculty

Munroe Eagles, Program Director

  

Munroe Eagles is a Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he has taught since 1989. He also is an adjunct professor in UB's Department of Geography. Professor Eagles is a native of Nova Scotia where he earned his B.A. Honours degree in Political Science from Acadia University (Wolfville, Nova Scotia). He went on to complete an MA in Political Studies from Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario), and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine. Prior to joining the faculty at UB, Professor Eagles taught political science for three years at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Since arriving at UB, he has also been affiliated as a 'research scientist' with the Buffalo site of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). In addition, he has held several administrative appointments as an Associate Dean since 1996.

Professor Eagles' primary research interests fall in the areas of political geography and the comparative politics of Anglo-American democracies, especially Canada. Author/editor of seven books and some 40 journal articles and book chapters, his latest book, co-authored with Ken Carty (UBC), is Politics is Local: National Politics at the Grassroots (Oxford University Press, 2005).

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Jean-Jacques Thomas, Associate Director

Professor, Melodia E. Jones Professor of French
Office: 907 Clemens Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2191 x 1170
Email: tii2@msn.com

Degrees

* Diplôme de l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Université de Paris-III, 1972
* Doctorat Mention "Très bien", Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1972
* Maîtrise ès-Lettres Classiques, Université de Lille, France, 1969
* Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures, Université de Lille, 1969
* Étudiant libre, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 1969

Areas of Specialization

* 19th- and 20th-century French poetry, poetics, linguistics, semiotics, literature and culture, and Francophone Studies of the New World (Canada, Caribbean, Louisiana)

Recent publications

* "Photographic Memories of French Poetry : Denis Roche, Jean-Marie Gleize." Yale French Studies (Summer 2008).
* "Gleize's Poetic Pix." L'Esprit Créateur (Spring 2008).

 

Daniel Kolundzic, Adjunct Instructor

Professor Daniel Kolundzic

Daniel Kolundzic is an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Geography. He has earned undergraduate degrees in the sciences and political science/business administration from the University of Western Ontario (London, ON) and Brock University (St. Catharines, ON) respectively.  He also holds an MA in Political Science from Brock University, and has completed all requirements except the dissertation for his doctorate in political science at Boston College (Boston, MA).

Professor Kolundzic has worked for a variety of governmental and private sector organizations on both sides of the border. Currently, he is serving as Political & Economic Relations Officer at the Canadian Consulate General in Buffalo, where his responsibilities have included (among other things) the border file and academic relations. He has previously taught about cross-border relations for UB's Department of Planning.

 

Nikita [Nik] Nanos, Research Associate Professor

Nik Nanos is the President of Nanos (formerly SES) Research, one of Canada's leading public opinion research firms. http://www.nanosresearch.com/main.asp  With clients in both Canada and the United States, he is the official pollster for CPAC, Canada's Political Channel and also the official pollster for the Osprey Media Group - a chain of 51 newspapers. Since 2005 his firm has partnered with UB in the annual "Nanos-UB North American Monitor," an innovative public opinion survey project that annually measures opinion among representative samples of Canadians and Americans on the bi-national relationship, and on attitudes toward major trading partners.

In 2006-2007, he was the National President of the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association which is the governing body for market and public opinion research in Canada. Polls conducted by SES Research and Nik's analysis have appeared in virtual all of Canada's major media outlets. They have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and The Guardian Newspaper in the United Kingdom.

For the past two federal elections in Canada, SES Research, led by Nik Nanos has been the polling firm closest to the actual election results.  In the 2006 Federal Election, the CPAC-SES final election poll was accurate to within one-tenth of one percentage point for the four major parties.  Nik was recently selected "Best Pollster" by The Hill Times and after the 2006 federal election recognized in The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Sun Media Chain, the Montreal Gazette and the CBC as Canada's most accurate pollster.

Mr. Nanos is the Past Editor-in-Chief of Vue, Canada’s magazine for the market research industry and also the Past Publisher of the Canadian Journal of Marketing Research.  He has been awarded the Certified Marketing Research Professional Designation and is a graduate of Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.