Vignettes of the Banal

Sarah Naumes is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in Political Science at York University in Toronto. Her current research focuses on the ways that pain and trauma are theorized and experienced in the Canadian and US militaries. She is the author of “Is all ‘I’ IR?” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 43:3 (2015), 820-832. She can be reached at naumes@yorku.ca .

Dean Caivano is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in Political Science at York University in Toronto.
His current research looks at the radical democratic vision of Thomas Jefferson’s political philosophy. He has recent
publications in New Political Science (2016), Spectra (2017), and is the editor of No Escape: Excavating the
Multidimensional Phenomenon of Fear (2016). He can be reached at dcc12@yorku.ca .