The instructors in the Political Science Department not only teach you potential ways to analyze world affairs, but they also motivate you to learn more, research more, and question more. Through a Research Opportunity Course, I had the rare opportunity to conduct primary research in Washington DC. I met with political affairs ministers and ambassadors from the Canadian and Mexican Embassies, policymakers from the US government, researchers from leading think tanks, professors, and a variety of other experts on my topic. The discussions I had in Washington provided a rich context for my research. — Sarah Yun, Winner of the Alexander Mackenzie Scholarship in Political Science

Michael Ignatieff teaches students about the hard realities of Parliament Hill


At Massey College, Michael Ignatieff teaches students about the hard realities of Parliament Hill

By Lisa Bryn Rundle, UofT Magazine

Winter 2012

While it’s not uncommon for engineering professors to have worked as engineers, or law professors to have worked as lawyers, you don’t find many political scientists who can draw on their experiences as a politician – much less as Opposition leader.

But then there’s Michael Ignatieff. The former Liberal Party leader (and before that Harvard University professor) has taken up the academic life once again – at U of T. Lisa Bryn Rundle sat down with Ignatieff in his Massey College office recently to talk about his political education.

Continue reading in the UofT Magazine.

Comments (3 Responses)

  1. Karen Watson says:

    Please send me an email address for Mr. Ignatieff, a person whom I admire. I would like to put him in contact with a friend Marc Bazinet who is very interested in working at Harvard, though he is Canadian. Marc is an excellent writer and marketing manager who knows how to promote high quality services (has worked for 14 years at StatsCan). Marc is passionate about his work, his cooking and about Kennedy and Harvard. Please consider my request! Thank you, Karen Watson

  2. ilyas hyder says:

    Michael Ignatieff is most smartest person in Canada.

  3. Bharat Punjabi says:

    Michael Ignatieff specializes in both intellectual history and is a political theorist/scientist at the same time. In my opinion, he is also Canada’s leading liberal intellectual after John Kenneth Galbraith.

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