I am a teacher and writer focussed on political economy (Canada and international), social movements (with a special focus on labour), and 20th century politics and history of Russia. I have been teaching at Athabasca University since 2007, since 2010 in the MA-IS program (Master of Arts - Interdisciplinary Studies), coordinating the "Work, Organization and Leadership" focus area. Prior to that I spent two excellent years teaching in the Department of International Development Studies at Trent University, and four years in the Department of Politics / School of Public Administration at Ryerson. My Ph.D. is in Political Studies from Queen's University, my M.A. in Political Science from York University.
politics and history of Russia (with a focus on the 20th century)
Educational credentials
1991 – PhD – Political Studies (Comparative Politics, Canadian Politics), School of Graduate Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston
1986 - MA – Political Science (Political Theory, Canadian Politics), Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University, Toronto
1985 - BA (Spec. Hons.) – Political Science, Atkinson College, York University
Professional affiliations
Associate Professor (status only), Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto
Associate Graduate Faculty Member (status only), Department of Social Justice Education, OISE University of Toronto
Books - sole-authored
2021 – “Truth Behind Bars”: Reflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press.
2015 - Escape from the Staple Trap: Canadian Political Economy After Left Nationalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Division.
Book – translation
2022 – World Bolshevism. By Iulii Osipovich Martov. Written in 1919, Russian-language edition published 1923. Republished, in a new translation by Paul Kellogg and Mariya Melentyeva, with an introduction by Paul Kellogg. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
2021 – “Canada’s National Questions, Free Trade and the Left.” Socialist Studies / Études Socialistes 15 (1): https://doi.org/10.18740/ss27317
2019 – “Finding the Axis of Solidarity: Populist protectionism and the end of NAFTA.” Studies in Political Economy 100 (1): 65-81
2018 - “The Defeat of Stephen Harper: A Case Study in Social Movement Electoralism.” Journal of Canadian Studies. 52 (3): 591-623
2017 - “Gods outside the market – Central Banks, China and the emergence of neoliberal state capitalism.” World Review of Political Economy (U.K.). 8 (1) Spring: 56-81
2015 - “Prairie Capitalism Revisited: Canada, Bitumen and the ‘Resource Colony’ Question.” Journal of Canadian Studies 49 (3): 222-255
2015 - “Geographies of Capital Accumulation: Tracing the Emergence of Multi-polarity, 1980-2014.” Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy, special issue of Research in Political Economy, Volume 30A edited by Radhika Desai. Bingley, U.K.: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.” 259-294
2013 - “Welfare State Vs. Warfare State: Toward a Comparative Political Economy of Militarism in Canada and the United States.” Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review 41: 61–88
2013 - “German Capitalism and the Long Search for a ‘spatial Fix’.” International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy 7 (1): 13–30
2011 - “Workers Versus Austerity: The Origins of Ontario’s 1995-1998 ‘Days of Action’.” Socialist Studies / Études Socialistes 7 (1/2) (Spring/Fall): 116–140
2008 - “Of Nails and Needles/ A Reconsideration of the Political Economy of Canadian Trade.” Socialist Studies / Études Socialistes 4 (2) (Fall): 67–92
2007 - “Regional Integration in Latin America: Dawn of an Alternative to Neoliberalism?” New Political Science 29 (2): 187–209
2005 - “Kari Levitt and the Long Detour of Canadian Political Economy.” Studies in Political Economy 76 (Autumn): 31–60
Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Books
2022 - “The Lost Voice of Iulii Martov.” In World Bolshevism, by Iulii Osipovich Martov, edited and introduced by Paul Kellogg. Translated by Mariya Melentyeva and Paul Kellogg: 1-32. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press.
2021 - “Trade Policy in a world of protectionism and non-equivalent exchange.” In Pour une politique commerciale socialement responsable dans un contexte de tensions commerciales, edited by Éric Boulanger, Michèle Rioux et Sylvain Zini. 137-151. Québec: Presses de L’Université du Québec.
2020 - “Psychological Wage and the Trump Phenomenon.” In Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left, edited by Robert Latham, A.T. Kingsmith, Niko Block and Julian von Bargen: 50-61. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing
2015 - “The Political Economy of Oil and Democracy in Venezuela and Alberta.” In Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada, edited by Meenal Shrivastava and Lorna Stefanick: 139-170. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press.
2013 - “From the Avro Arrow to Afghanistan: The Political Economy of Canada’s New Militarism.” In Empire’s Ally: Canadian Foreign Policy and the War in Afghanistan, edited by Greg Albo and Jerome Klassen, 181–210. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Division
2011 - “NAFTA Unplugged? Canada’s Three Economies and Free Trade with the EU.” In Europe, Canada and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, edited by Kurt Hübner, 107–129. New York: Routledge