Dr. Felix Amoh-Siaw
Political Science
FAmoh-Siaw@okanagan.bc.ca
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Dr. Felix Amoh-Siaw holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (Global Studies) from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. He also holds an MA in International Relations from Shanghai University (mainland China) and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.
His research examines international development and the politics of external intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa, with particular interests in armed conflict, humanitarian crises, UN peace operations, genocide, neocolonialism, and African responses to international interventions. His doctoral research focused on how local populations perceive and respond to external interventions in humanitarian crises, drawing on fieldwork in Mali and South Sudan.
Dr. Amoh-Siaw has conducted fieldwork across West and East Africa and briefly in the United States and has experience working at the intersection of academic research, evaluation, and community engagement. In 2022, he was selected as a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar in recognition of his research potential, intellectual curiosity, and commitment to engaged scholarship.
Prior to joining Okanagan College, Dr. Amoh-Siaw taught and tutored Political Science courses at UBC Okanagan and worked as a Writing Consultant at the Centre for Scholarly Communication in the UBCO Library. His teaching and research interests include African politics, international development, international relations, global development, humanitarian intervention, conflict and peacebuilding, and international organizations.
In his spare time, Dr. Amoh-Siaw enjoys playing football (not soccer), tennis, traveling, hiking, fixing broken cars, and working out.