Status
In Progress
Email Address
neekoo.collett@mail.utoronto.ca
Website
Major
International Relations
Supervisor(s)
Collett, Neekoo
Dissertation:
Explaining Variation in the Use of Repressive Tactics: The Case of Iranian Bahá’ís, 1979-Present
Biography
Neekoo Collett is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is interested in understanding how governments repress minority groups, specifically the factors that affect a government’s selection of repressive tactics. Neekoo’s dissertation uses a novel events dataset and interview data to examine the use of different repressive tactics against a small religious minority in Iran between 1979-2020. It argues that international human rights pressures, domestic dissent, resources, and habituation all differently affect the types of tactics used by the Iranian government to repress the religious minority group.
Neekoo has worked for a number of genocide-prevention and monitoring organizations, including the Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention and the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies. In 2018, Neekoo was a Doctoral Fellow at the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict, and Justice. She has held major research awards and scholarships, including: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada Graduate Scholars (CGS) Doctoral Scholarship (2015-2018) and SSHRC CGS Master’s Scholarship (2013). Neekoo’s research interests include repression; violence; genocide; minorities; religion; human rights; Iran; and the MENA region.
Research Interests
Repression; violence; genocide; minorities; religion; human rights; Iran; MENA
Previous Degrees
B.A (Hon.) Political Science (University of Alberta 2013)
Master of Global Affairs (University of Toronto 2015)
Teaching Experience
Course Instructor for: POL378: Topics in Comparative Politics: Genocide & Mass Killing (2022)
Teaching Assistant for: MUN105Y: Global Problem-Solving (2014), GLA1002H: Global Civil Society (2015-2018), PCJ260: Introduction to Peace, Conflict, and Justice (2020-2021), PCJ360: Climate and Change (2019), PCJ460: Causes of War and Peace (2019), POL114: Politics in the Global World (2019), POL111: Canada in Comparative Perspective (2020-2021).