Stephanie Carvin is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Her research interests are in the area of national and international security. Currently, she is teaching in the areas of critical infrastructure protection, intelligence and public policy.
Stephanie holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and published her thesis as Prisoners of America’s Wars: From the Early Republic to Guantanamo (Columbia/Hurst, 2010). Her most recent book is For Blood and Soil: Far-Right Extremism in Canada (McGill-Queens University Press 2026) co-authored with Amarnath Amarasingam. She is also the author of Stand on Guard: Reassessing Threats to Canada’s National Security (University of Toronto Press, 2021) which was nominated for the 2021 Donner Prize for the best book in Canadian public policy. She is the co-author of Intelligence and Policy Making: The Canadian Experience (Stanford University Press 2021) with Thomas Juneau, and Science, Law, Liberalism and the American Way of Warfare: The Quest for Humanity in Conflict (Cambridge, 2015) co-authored with Michael J. Williams. In 2009, Carvin was an observer at the US Department of Defence Law of War Working Group and a visiting fellow at George Washington University Law School. From 2012-2015, she was an analyst with the Government of Canada focusing on national security issues. Her next projects are on intelligence diplomacy and a study of the impact of online extremist rhetoric on gender-based violence.
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