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Team Member

Dr. Ryan Dean

Network Coordinator

Dr. Ryan Dean had the pleasure of joining the NATO Field School Team in May of 2024. Before this, he was an Assistant Professor in the Public Policy and Governance program at St. Francis Xavier University. He also worked as the Research and Policy Coordinator (2021 – 2023) for the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN) at Trent University where he also held a Postdoctoral Fellowship. Ryan received his PhD from the University of Calgary in 2022 where he was generously supported by a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier (CGS) Doctoral Scholarship. Ryan currently is a Network Coordinator for NAADSN as well as the Managing Editor of Documents on Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security hosted by the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies (CMSS) and Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) in Calgary.

His recent works include the report Military Threats In, To, and Through the Arctic East of Greenland and Implications for Canada” in August 2023, the 2022 Polar Journal article “Speaking Security: Constructing Canada’s 2009 Northern Strategy,” his 2022 dissertation “(De) Securitizing the Arctic? Prepping the intersubjective policy terrain of Canada’s northern security agenda,” and the 2021 edited volume with Nancy Teeple Shielding North America: Canada’s Role in All-Domain Continental Defence Modernization.