Nadège Compaoré

W. R. Nadège Compaoré is an Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her work lies at the intersection of (Pan) African politics, IR theory, International Law, global extractivism, gender and race in IR. Her work includes two main projects. The first investigates dynamics between global resource governance and multi-level claims of sovereignty in Africa. The second investigates historical dynamics behind the evolution of Pan-Africanism and Black Internationalism. Her work has been published in outlets such as International Studies Review, International Studies Perspectives, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, Oxford Handbook on Environmental Politics, Études Internationales, and she is co-editor of New Approaches to the Governance of Natural Resources: Insights from Africa (Palgrave). Her current research is funded by the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). A native of Burkina Faso, Nadège received her PhD in Political Studies from Queen’s University, where her research, also funded by SSHRC, was informed by fieldwork in Gabon, Ghana, and South Africa.