School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Dr Philippe M. Frowd
Philippe M. Frowd specializes in critical security studies and more specifically the global governance of borders and migration. He received his MA from the University of Ottawa (2010) and his PhD in Political Science from McMaster University (2015).
His main research interest is on the role of security professionals around international interventions in the area of border security. He carried out research in Senegal and Mauritania for his doctoral dissertation and his research continues to focus on security governance in the Sahel region of West Africa.
Prior to joining the department, Philippe was a research fellow at the University of Sheffield.
Areas of interest include international relations theory; global governance; sociology of security; the politics of borders; migration and asylum; African politics; impacts of intervention and statebuilding; transnational governance of mobility; security in the Sahel; contemporary social theory; political anthropology
Philippe’s research agenda is on the security politics of the Sahel region of West Africa. His doctoral project focused on Senegal and Mauritania in particular, mapping the local and global actors involved in border security cooperation practices. This project took particular interest in ‘border management’ as a concept around which multiple fields of law enforcement, military, diplomats, and bureaucrats converged. With emphasis on the transmission of security knowledges and technologies across these fields, the project understood border management as a practice of statebuilding through security institutions. His current research focuses on the European Union’s civilian security projects in the Sahel, and more specifically their impacts on the routines and strategies of local security actors. Philippe regularly presents his work at international conferences and has been invited to speak at York University and Queen’s University Belfast. In 2014, he won Millennium’s Northedge Essay Prize.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
2014 The field of border control in Mauritania. Security Dialogue 45 (3): 226-241. doi: 10.1177/0967010614525001
2014 State personhood, abjection and the United States’ HIV travel ban. Millennium 42 (3): 860-878. doi: 10.1177/0305829814541321
Chapters in peer-reviewed books
2012 Affect at the Airport (with Christopher C. Leite). In Salter MB and Mutlu CE (eds.) Research Methods in Critical Security Studies. London: Routledge, 149-153.
Teaching
In the first term of 2015-2016, Philippe will be leading two seminar groups in International Politics.
