randall hansen

Randall Hansen is an Associate Professor of Political Science and holds a Research Chair at the University of Toronto. He has a master’s degree and a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he was a Commonwealth scholar. He was elected to a Research Fellowship at Christ Church Oxford at the age of 26, a tutorial fellowship at Merton College, Oxford, at the age of 29, and an established Chair in Politics at the University of Newcastle at the age of 33.

His book, Fire and Fury: the Allied Bombing of Germany, will be published on October 14, 2008.

A commentary page on the book is available under this link.

Other current projects include work on immigration and integration in Europe and North America, and a collaborative project with Desmond King on eugenics and forced sterilization. He is principal investigator on two funded research projects: a study of the global governance of migration (with Frank Lazco and Jobst Koehler of IOM) and an interdisciplinary project on ‘Theorizing German Suffering: Bombing, Rapes, and Expulsions.’

Hansen has held sabbatical fellowships at the Institut des etudes politiques, Paris, the Humboldt University and Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain (Oxford University Press, 2000), and has published numerous articles and book chapters on immigration, citizenship, and the history of eugenics and forced sterilization. His work has been translated into French, German, and Italian. He has given public lectures throughout Europe and North America.

He is frequently interviewed by and quoted in the press, including the BBC, International Herald Tribune, and Boston Globe. He has appeared live on CBC’s Today at Six, Newsworld, and Politics. He regularly speaks on local, national, and international radio.