Leadership
John Meehan - Director
A historian by training, Dr. John Meehan has a BA in History and Russian Studies from McGill University, a diploma in Theology from Magdalen College, Oxford, an MA in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in History from the University of Toronto. His publications include The Dominion and the Rising Sun: Canada Encounters Japan, 1929-1941 (winner of the Prime Minister’s Award in Japan) and Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai: Canada’s Early Relations with China, 1858-1952 . A former President of Campion College (U of Regina) and the University of Sudbury, he has taught and published on Canadian foreign relations, Asia Pacific studies and relations with Indigenous peoples.
Jack Cunningham – Program Coordinator
Jack Cunningham is a Fellow and Assistant Professor in the International Relations Program at Trinity College, University of Toronto, where he is also Program Coordinator at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History. He has published on the early 21st-century conflict in Afghanistan, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and Canadian nuclear history and is a former editor of International Journal.