Nicole Morgan, Ph.D

Dr Morgan full professorship at the Royal Military College of Canada was the most recent stop in a rich and varied academic life spread over two continents, several cultures and subject matter specialties. Following a Master's degree in philosophy from the University of Dijon (France), specialized in espistemology. She supplemented it with a second Master's degree in anthropology ( University of Aix-en-Provence). This combination was then applied for several years to the study of global trends at first in the Paris policy think tank, Futuribles, and later in the Canadian Federal Public Service. In 1991 she was named Queen's National Scholar, to teach in the Master's of Public Administration Program at the Kingston campus, and in 1993 she was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree by the University of Ottawa. Her dissertation on the emergence of the modern state at the beginning of the sixteenth century was published by J. Vrin: Le sixiéme continent (1996)A summary can be read in http://agora.qc.ca/documents/bon_anniversaire_thomas_more_et_merci_pour_le_sourire The current manifestation of these comprehensive interests is a focus on the impact of globalization on human ecology, conceived not only as the bodies of human individuals but also as a social body including the state and other organizations. The last decade she focused her attention on ideologies as they construct and deconstruct part of humanity. She published at the end of 2012 Haine Froide (Paris Le Seuil) an analysis of fifty years of propagan which constructed the ideology of the American Ultra right. She has been invited often to speak at UNESCO in Paris and her published speeches on globalisation and issues of our times have been widely distributed by Diogène. To name two: Utopia 9-11 (2006) “Are civilisations mortal?” (2010). She is presently editing the final version of two books: The first one Fear in the belly deals with the changes of human morphology (obesity is one aspect) since the ice ages in times of globalisations and shortage of lands. The second one starts 500 years ago when China was going forward the Silk Road and Europe started to construct the modern states and its institutions. She published the first part of the second book to come, a follow up of Haine Froide. http://agora.qc.ca/documents/haine_rouge_et_peur_blanche