Below you will find suggested Dalhousie University experts who can speak to current topics of regional, provincial, national, and international interest. 

Central American, Mexican & U.S. politics / immigration policies / narco-politics 
Dalhousie Expert: Dr. Kate Swanson, Professor, Canada Research Chair in International Peace, Security and Children, Department of International Development Studies
Research Specialties: Migration, asylum and refugees, children and youth, immigration detention, violence and human rights, and Latin America and US/Mexico border
Contact: Kate.Swanson@dal.ca

Latin American politics and the history of US interventions to overthrow governments in Latin America
Dalhousie Expert: Dr. John Cameron, Professor, Department of International Development Studies
Research Specialties: Advocacy strategies of civil society organizations, public engagement strategies and representations of ‘development’ in the global North, cosmopolitan theory and global citizenship, Indigenous and peasant social movement, Andean politics (Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru), rural development policies
Contact: john.cameron@dal.ca

Latin American history, politics and governance
Dalhousie Expert: Dr. John Kirk, Professor, Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies
Research Specialties: Cuban colonial times, Cuban cultural revolution, Latin American dictators.
Contact: kirk@dal.ca

Dalhousie Expert: Dr. Isaac Saney, Professor, Coordinator of Black and African Diaspora Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 
Research Specialties: Africa, the Caribbean, Cuba, and Black Canadian history
Contact: isaney@dal.ca