Biography
Geoff Martin is a Part-Time Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations, having earned his Ph.D. from York University in 1993. He has taught a variety of courses over the past thirty years, but his current teaching and research interests are in the areas of New Brunswick and Maritime politics, Canadian political economy, US politics and International political economy.
Publications
Books:
2017. Martin, Geoff with E. Steuter, Drone Nation: The Political Economy of America's New Way of War. Lanham, Maryland, USA: Lexington Books.
2010. Martin, Geoff with E. Steuter, Pop Culture Goes to War: Enlisting and Resisting Militarism in the War on Terror. Lanham, Maryland, USA: Lexington Books.
Selected Articles and Chapters:
2025. “Comparative French and English News Media Coverage of the Higgs Government Reform Agenda in New Brunswick, 2018-2024,” pp. 129-143 (coauthored with E. Steuter), Gabriel Arsenault (ed.), The Higgs Years: Leading and Dividing New Brunswick, (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press).
2024. “Bait and Switch: The Finances of New Brunswick municipal reform one year on,“ Journal of New Brunswick Studies/Revue d’études sur le Nouveau-Brunswick, 16(2): 58-67.
2023. “Closing Windows: How New Brunswick media framed the COVID-19 pandemic,“ (coauthored with E. Steuter), Journal of New Brunswick Studies/Revue d’études sur le Nouveau-Brunswick, XV (1): 1-20 2023.
2022. “Municipal Reform Sticker Shock,“ Journal of New Brunswick Studies/Revue d’études sur le Nouveau-Brunswick, 14(2): 45-53.
2021. (coauthored with E. Steuter). Un Paysage Médiatique Anglo, pp. 248-250, in Michelle Landry, Dominique Pépin-Fillion, and Julien Massicotte (Eds). L’État de L’Acadie: Un Grand Tour d’Horizon de L’Acadie Contemporiane, Del Busso.
2021. (coauthored with E. Steuter). Un Monopole Médiatique?, pp. 250-251, in Michelle Landry, Dominique Pépin-Fillion, and Julien Massicotte (Eds). L’État de L’Acadie: Un Grand Tour d’Horizon de L’Acadie Contemporiane, Del Busso.
2016. “The Extraordinary Employment Tenure of New Brunswick Municipal Officers: A Case of the Entrenched Civil Servant?,” Journal of New Brunswick Studies / Revue d’études sur le Nouveau-Brunswick, 7(1). Retrieved from
2007. “Municipal Reform in New Brunswick: Minor Tinkering in Light of Major Problems,” Journal of Canadian Studies, XXXXI (1): 75-99.
2000. “The Myth of the Competitive Challenge: The Irving Oil Refinery Strike, 1994-96, and the Canadian Petroleum Industry,” (co-authored), Studies in Political Economy 63 (Autumn): 111-132.
1999. “Anatomie d’un bouleversement politique: le front commun Angela Vautour-NPD dans Beauséjour-Petitcodiac,” Egalité: Revue de la Société acadian de analyse politique (Universite de Moncton), printemps, pp. 37-49.
1998. "We've Seen it all Before: The experience of the COR Party in New Brunswick, 1988-1995," Journal of Canadian Studies, XXXIII(1): 22-38.
1997. "Implementing the Impossible Dream: The Politics of Maritime Political Union," (co-authored) in David Taras and Beverly Rasporich (eds.), A Passion for Identity: An Introduction to Canadian Studies, Third Edition, (Toronto: Nelson Canada), pp. 355-376.
1996. "The COR Party of New Brunswick as an `Ethnic Party'," Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism XXIII(1-2): 1-8.
2007. "Municipal Reform in New Brunswick: Minor Tinkering in Light of Major Problems." Journal of Canadian Studies, XXXXI(1): 75:99.
2001. "The Changing Global Trade Structure in a Volatile World: Moving from 'harmonization' to a new 'interface principle'," in W. Andy Knight (ed.), Adapting the United Nations to a Postmodern World: Lessons Learned, (Basingstoke, UK and New York: Palgrave), pp. 219-231.
2000. "The Myth of the Competitive Challenge: The Irving Oil Refinery Strike, 1994-96, and the Canadian Petroleum Industry." (co-authored), Studies in Political Economy 63 (Autumn): 111-132.
1998. "We've Seen it all Before: The experience of the COR Party in New Brunswick, 1988-1995." Journal of Canadian Studies, XXXIII(1): 22-38.
1997. "The Role of Culture in Global Structural Transformation: Opera and the Baroque Crisis in Seventeenth Century Europe." International Political Science Review, April XXVII(2): 133-146.
Education
1985 B.A. (Hons.) Dalhousie University
1986 M.A. Purdue University
1993 Ph.D. York University
Teaching
Courses taught in rotation in Fall/Winter:
- POLS 3121 - Maritime Provincial Politics
- POLS 3211 - US Politics
- POLS/INLR - 3311 International Political Economy
- POLS 3991 - Canadian Political Economy
Correspondence courses taught (when offered):
- POLS 1001 - Foundations of Politics
- POLS 3211 - US Politics