Mark B. Salter is professor of political studies at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Rights of Passage: The Passport in International Relations and Barbarians and Civilization in International Relations and the editor of Research Methods in Critical Security Studies (with Can E. Mutlu), Mapping Transatlantic Security Relations, and Politics at the Airport (Minnesota, 2008). In 2014 he was awarded the Canadian Political Science Association Prize for Teaching Excellence.