Background: Veronica M. Kitchen is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and in the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her main research project concerns counter-terrorism institutions which integrate professionals across levels of government and between various parts of the security field (police, military, intelligence, and planning) in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. This research is supported by a SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2010-2012). She is also studying ethics in security bureaucracies and the securitization of policing.   

She has also done extensive research on questions of identity and security in the context of NATO and Canadian-American relations. Her recent publications include The Globalization of NATO: Intervention, Security, and Identity (Routledge, 2010); "NATO's Out-of-Area Norm from Suez to Afghanistan" Journal of Transatlantic Studies 8 (2) (2010); “Canada (En)Counters Terrorism: US-Canada Relations and Counter-Terrorism Policy" Terrorism & Political Violence 21(1), 2009 (with Karthika Sasikumar); "Argument and Identity Change in the Atlantic Security Community" Security Dialogue 40(1) February 2009; and "Canada-Germany Relations: Essays in Honour of Robert Spencer" Guest editor with Petra Dolata-Kreutzkamp, International Journal 63(3), Summer 2008.

Prior to joining the University of Waterloo, she was a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre of International Relations at the University of British Columbia. She completed her Ph.D in political science at Brown University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, in 2006. She has an undergraduate degree in International Relations from Trinity College at the University of Toronto.