Education
Ph.D., McMaster University (2015)
M.A., University of Ottawa (2010)
B.Soc.Sci., University of Ottawa (2008)
Books
Research Methods in Critical Security Studies (2nd edition), co-edited with Mark B. Salter & Can E. Mutlu (2023)
Routledge
Security at the Borders: Transnational Practices and Technologies in West Africa (2018)
Cambridge University Press
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
The appification of borders: data, migration and digitalization (2025), w/ Can E. Mutlu and Benjamin J. Muller
Big Data & Society
Productive failure, African agency, and security cooperation in West Africa: The case of the G5 Sahel (2025), w/ Adam Sandor & Jana Hönke
European Journal of International Security
The ‘Datafication’ of Borders in Global Context: The Role of the International Organization for Migration (2024)
Geopolitics
‘Quasilegality and migrant smuggling in Northern Niger’ (2023)
Trends in Organized Crime
‘The politics of non-state security provision in Burkina Faso: koglweogo self-defence groups’ ambiguous pursuit of recognition’ (2022)
African Affairs
‘Borderwork Creep in West Africa’s Sahel’ (2021)
Geopolitics
‘Producing the ‘transit’ migration state: international security intervention in Niger’ (2020)
Third World Quarterly
‘Militarism and its Limits: Sociological insights on security assemblages in the Sahel’, w/ Adam J. Sandor (2018)
Security Dialogue
‘Developmental borderwork and the International Organization for Migration’ (2018)
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
‘The promises and pitfalls of biometric security practices in Senegal’ (2017)
International Political Sociology
‘Collective Discussion: Ferocious Architecture: Sovereign Spaces/Places by Design’, w/ Benjamin J. Muller et al. (2016)
International Political Sociology
‘The field of border control in Mauritania’ (2014)
Security Dialogue
‘State Personhood, Abjection and the United States’ HIV Travel Ban’ (2014)
Millennium
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Commentary & interviews
The rise of the border apps (2023), with Benjamin J. Muller and Can E. Mutlu
Commentary in International Migration
Borders, Surveillance and Security Politics: an Interview with Dr. Philippe Frowd (Security in Context, 21 August 2020)
Black academic offers his take on storm over use of N-word at U of O (CBC Ottawa, 21 October 2020)
The Double-Edged Sword of Trafficking in Niger (Centre for International Policy Studies, 4 February 2020)
The “Transit State”: Migration and Security Intervention in Niger (Oxford Research Group, 23 July 2018)
In the Sahel, militarism doesn’t give us a full picture, w/ Adam J. Sandor (Security Dialogue / PRIO blog, 19 April 2018)
The politics of border security in the Sahel (Centre for International Policy Studies, 9 May 2017)
The trouble with policing the Mediterranean (Open Canada, 9 March 2015)
Border Control Intervention in West Africa: Thinking Beyond the Global North (Border Criminologies, 7 January 2014)
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