Chasing World War I Ghosts: Re-learning IR through the Togoland Campaign St Andrews Distinguished Teacher Lecture

: Dr. Yolande Bouka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar and practitioner with deep theoretical and methodological roots in critical international relations. Her research and teaching focus on gender, violence, decoloniality, race and international relations, and African affairs. The key questions driving her multidisciplinary research agenda is how vulnerable groups understand and navigate structural and political violence and how these experiences influence the post-conflict social and political landscapes. Her research has received support from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the American Association of University Women, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is the recipient of the 2021 International Studies Association (ISA) Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section (FTGS) Early Career Community Engagement Award. She currently serves on advisory board of the Diaspora Program of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in addition to the advisory editorial boards of of Africa Development and the Canadian Journal of African Studies. In addition to her academic work and service, she has extensive experience with development and security research agencies. Between 2014 and 2016 she was a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in the Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis Division.