His research focuses on governance and politics in the Canadian and Circumpolar North, and on the impacts of globalization and social change on communities in northern Canada and the Celtic periphery in Europe. He has published articles in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Canadian Foreign Policy, International Journal, Europe-Asia Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs, Polar Geography and the Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism. Dr. Wilson is the Secretary-Treasurer of the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS) and the Associate Director of the Pacific-Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium.