Current & Past Fellows
Manaswini Ramkumar (2024)
Manaswini Ramkumar is the CDSN Postdoctoral Fellow 2024-2025 at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. She is completing her PhD in International Relations at the School of International Service, American University in Washington DC, where she examines civil-military relations in the context of democratic erosion. She also studies postcolonial statebuilding, subnational democracy, and authoritarian resistance. Her work has been funded by American University, The Association for Documentary Editing and the American Political Science Association. She received her MPhil in IR from American University and MSc in Strategic Studies from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore where she previously worked as an Associate Research Fellow in the Military Studies program and was a lecturer in Professional Military Education to the Singapore Armed Forces.
Dr. Ryan Atkinson (2023)
Ryan Atkinson is CDSN Postdoctoral Fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University where his research focuses on cyber defence policy. He previously worked at NATO Headquarters in Brussels. Ryan has prior experience in the private sector as a cyber security consultant at KPMG, and managed the cyber defence program at the NATO Association of Canada. Ryan completed a PhD from Western University in Political Science, and an MA in International Relations from the University of Toronto.
Dr. Thomas Hughes (2022)
Thomas Hughes is an international student from the UK, a PhD candidate at Queen’s University, an editorial assistant at the Centre for International and Defence Policy, and a graduate fellow at the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network. His primary areas of research are on confidence-building, deterrence, and strategic culture, with his dissertation focusing on the political effects of military exercises in Europe. Thomas co-edited the 2018 book North American Strategic Defense in the 21st Century, and has also published work on the use of, and attitudes towards, Remotely Piloted Aircraft. Thomas gained his MA from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, Denver, in 2016, and has also worked for the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute.
Dr. Johanna Masse (2021)
Dr. Masse began her post-doctoral studies at Queen’s University on gendered representations in the military, following a PhD in political science at Laval University on women’s activism in armed conflict. She is interested in women’s participation in both legitimate (state) violence and illegitimate expressions of it, and the ways in which they are represented. She has also been a lecturer in international relations, qualitative methodology and diplomatic history.
Dr. Linna Tam-Seto (2020)
Dr. Linna Tam-Seto joined the CIDP on July 1, 2020 as a Canadian Defence and Security Network (CDSN) Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Linna’s research interests include understanding the health and well-being of Canada’s military members, veterans, public safety personnel and their families during life transitions and changes, with a particular focus on the experiences of servicewomen and women veterans. The CDSN is a network of professionals, academics, and researchers focused on better understanding and anticipating Canada’s role in modern international security.
