Randall Hansen | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia (BA) St. John's College, Oxford (MPhil) Nuffield College, Oxford (DPhil) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
| Main interests | Migration, eugenics, war and civilian populations |
| Notable works | Fire and Fury,Disobeying Hitler |
Randall Hansen is a Canadianpolitical scientist andhistorian at theUniversity of Toronto, where he holds aCanada Research Chair in Global Migration in the Department of Political Science. He is also Director of the Global Migration Lab at theMunk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Hansen taught at theQueen Mary University of London and theUniversity of Oxford (where he was a tutorial fellow atMerton College) before taking up his current position.
His fields of research are migration and citizenship, eugenics and population policy, and the effect of war on civilian populations. He has authored four books,Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain,[1]Fire and Fury: the Allied Bombing of Germany 1942-1945,[2][3]Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after Valkyrie.,[4] and War, Work and Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution[5]
Hansen was co-editor (with Matthew J. Gibney) ofImmigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present.[6] He is co-author (with Desmond King) ofSterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race and the Population Scare in 20th Century North America.[7]
Fire and Fury was a Canadian bestseller, described by Vice as "well-received," and was nominated for a Governor's General award,[8] specifically the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction in 2009.[9] Additionally, he has contributed numerous articles to academic journals.
In 2018, sales ofFire and Fury surged upon the publication ofMichael Wolff's best-sellingbook of the same title about thePresidency of Donald Trump.[10] Some people bought Hansen's book by mistake, while others became aware of it because of the publicity over the Wolff book.
Hansen was the Interim Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs for the period 1 June 2017 to 31 January 2020, succeedingStephen Toope,[11] and Director of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School from 2011 to 2022.[12]
