Welcome to Professor Daniel Troup
Daniel Troup joined the Department of Political Science and the UMaine Canadian-American Center in August. He comes from Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec, where he held a teaching position, and Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where taught and completed his PhD focused on US-Canada security issues in 2022. This year at UMaine, Professor Troup taught several courses including Canadian politics and foreign policy, as well as introduction to comparative politics. He looks forward to continuing to introduce Maine students to the politics of their nearest international neighbor.
Professor Troup’s research focuses on the intersection of social conflict, ideology, and international cooperation. His PhD dissertation, currently being revised for book publication, studies the emergence of stable and reliable peace between Canada and the United States. In contrast to conventional accounts that focus on the institutional or ideological compatibilities between these two countries, Professor Troup’s interpretation concentrates on overlooked instances of conflict and repression that occurred as this international partnership developed. One key argument is that the ideologically motivated policing of political activists inspired significant moments of security integration in North America. An article about parts of this argument is forthcoming in International Journal, one of Canada’s leading foreign affairs journals.
In the fall, Professor Troup’s research on US-Canada security was the subject of a roundtable discussion at the conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, held in Washington, D.C. There, a number of Canadian researchers discussed and debated his argument about the overlooked foundations of US-Canada security cooperation.
Beyond his work on US-Canada security relations, Professor Troup has ongoing projects related to labor and migration in North America. He is the co-editor of a book focused on Canadian working-class politics currently under review at a Canadian university press. His contributions to this book include an analysis of Canada’s social democratic New Democratic Party, in collaboration with Bryan Evans of Toronto Metropolitan University, as well as a chapter about Canada’s controversial temporary agricultural worker program based on work he presented at the 2023 meeting of the International Public Policy Association in Toronto.
Professor Troup is beginning work on a project about anti-war politics in Canada and the United States, and the post-Cold War peace movements links to both the political left and pacifist philosophy. Related to this subject, this year, he sat on the selection committee for the George J. Mitchell Peace Scholarship, honoring the Northern Ireland Peace Accord, which offers a UMaine student the opportunity to study in Ireland for one year. This will be the first project he initiates at UMaine, and he hopes to contribute to the excellent research that the Department of Political Science consistently produces.