Dr. Paul Emiljanowicz is the Managing Director of Participedia and a lecturer at McMaster University. He is also an active member of the Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa and the Global Development Section of the International Studies Association, as well as a board member for Demo.Reset: Deliberation in the Global South and Africapols. His research is focused on contributing to reconceptualizing development, the state, and democracy by engaging with the ideas, experiences, and peoples who have traditionally been excluded. His programming centers around strengthening, defending, and re-imagining inclusive democracy and citizen participation through democratic innovations.

Dr. Emiljanowicz’s work is published in Postcolonial Studies, Third World Quarterly, Interventions, The Australasian Parliamentary Review, Small Axe, Democratization, Routledge, SAGE, and Athabasca University Press (forthcoming), as well as in popular media outlets such as Africa is a Country and The Conversation. He is also completing a major manuscript under a University Press and is a coorganizer of a special issue on Democratic Pedagogies. In addition, he is a co-founder of a newly launching peer-reviewed journal – the Democracies – published by Amsterdam University Press.