CPD Welcomes Ruben Zaiotti

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy is pleased to welcome Ruben Zaiotti, Director of the European Union Centre of Excellence and Associate Professor in the Political Science department at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia), the 2017 Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Chair in Public Diplomacy. Zaiotti holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in International Relations, a Masters in International Development from the University of Oxford and a BA from the University of Bologna.

Zaiotti’s research areas include European Union politics, social media and public diplomacy, border control and immigration policy, and transatlantic relations. Zaiotti is the author of  Cultures of Border Control: Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers (University of Chicago Press) and the editor of several books on language, globalization, and migration policy. He has published articles in the Review of International Studies, European Security, Journal of European Integration, Journal of Borderland Studies, and the International Journal of Refugee Law.

For Zaiotti’s full bio, click here.

To see a list of previous Canadian-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chairs in Public Diplomacy, please click here.

About The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy

Supported by Foreign Affairs Canada and the United States Department of State since 2005, the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program promotes a deeper and more nuanced knowledge of Canada-U.S. relations and builds mutual understanding between the two countries through high-level academic exchange. The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at CPD is designed to strengthen binational collaborative research on issues relevant to Canada, the United States and the relationship between the two countries. For more information, visit the Fulbright website.