Stephanie Carvin is an Associate Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. Her research focuses on national and international security, and technology.
She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and her dissertation was published as Prisoners of America’s Wars: From the Early Republic to Guantanamo.
In 2009 Stephanie was a Visiting Scholar at George Washington University Law School during her sabbatical and also worked as consultant to the US Department of Defense Law of War Working Group and the American Red Cross’ Educating International Humanitarian Law Project. From 2014-15, she was a Research Associate, Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) at the University of Ottawa. From 2012-2015, she was an analyst with the Government of Canada focusing on national security issues.
She is the author of Stand on Guard: Reassessing Threats to Canada’s National Security (University of Toronto Press, 2020) and one of the editors of Top Secret Canada: Understanding the Canadian Intelligence and National Security Community (University of Toronto Press, 2020). In November 2014 Cambridge University Press published Law, Science, Liberalism and the American Way of Warfare: The quest for humanity in conflict, co-authored with MJ Williams. She is presently working on a co-authored book on the relationship between intelligence and policymaking in Canada with Thomas Juneau.