About me

Chris Tenove is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Ethics and the Munk School of Global Affairs of the University of Toronto. He studies international relations and political theory, with an emphasis on issues of global governance and global justice. He is also an award-winning freelance writer and broadcaster.

Chris received his PhD in Political Science at the University of British Columbia, and his MA in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley. For more on his academic background and research, see the Academic Work tab.

As a journalist, Chris’ assignments have taken him to diamond pits in Sierra Leone, jazz clubs in Bosnia, prisons in Cambodia and jade mines in British Columbia. His features have appeared in magazines such as Maclean’s, The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Adbusters, Vancouver, This Magazine, and Reader’s Digest Canada, and in newspapers such as the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and The Tyee.

As a broadcaster, his documentaries have appeared on Ideas on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Radio Netherlands World Service, and This American Life.

Chris lives in Vancouver, Canada, where he is a member of the FCC—a collective of globetrotting writers who curate the rare but memorable Emily’s Monkey literary events.