Christopher Kirkey, Ph.D.

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Christopher Kirkey is Director of the Center for the Study of Canada and Institute on Quebec Studies at State University of New York at Plattsburgh. A scholar of comparative foreign policy and international relations theory, he has been a professor at Bridgewater State University (1993-2001), Columbia University (2002-2012), and SUNY Plattsburgh (2002-present).

His most recent works are The Québec-United States Relationship: Political, Security, Economic, Environmental and Cultural Dynamics (2025), Quebec’s Eastern Townships and the World: A Region and Its Global Connections (2025), and La relation Québec-États-Unis: Dynamiques politiques, sécuritaires, économiques, environnementales et culturelles (2026). Book volumes, chapters, and edited special journal issues and contributions include Oxford University Press, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, University of Toronto Press, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Presses de l’Université Laval, Ottawa University Press, Canadian Journal of Political Science, International Journal, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, Armed Forces & Society, American Review of Canadian Studies, British Journal of Canadian Studies, Journal of Canadian Studies, International Journal of Canadian Studies, London Journal of Canadian Studies, Quebec Studies, and the Journal of Eastern Townships Studies. He has previously served as President of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, and the Middle Atlantic and New England Council on Canadian Studies.