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News and AnnouncementsPeter Loewen Wins A 2012 Ontario Early Researcher Award (ERA)Towards a better understanding of public attitudesWe are proud to announce that Dr. Peter Loewen is a winner of a 2012 Ontario Early Researcher Award (ERA)! The ERA program helps promising, recently-appointed Ontario researchers build their research teams of undergraduates, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, research assistants, associates, and technicians. The goal of the program is to improve Ontario’s ability to attract and retain the best and brightest research talent. The award will support Peter Loewen’s research project entitled Understanding electoral behaviour and public attitudes from large self-selected samples. Read about UofT’s 2012 ERA Winners In UofT News here. View descriptions of the ERA winners’ work here.
Clifton van der Linden named 2012-13 Action Canada FellowCongratulations to Clifton van der Linden, Doctoral Degree Candidate, Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, for being named a 2012-13 Action Canada Fellow! Action Canada is Canada’s leading public policy fellowship. Fellows are chosen from all sectors, including business, science, government, academia, and the professions. The program revolves around working conferences held across Canada, during which Fellows interact with leaders from government, industry, the media, academia, and NGOs. In addition, Fellows work in teams on policy projects that have, in past years, inspired Canadian public policy. Find out more at www.actioncanada.ca.
Teresa Kramarz wins Graduate Student Paper Award for paper presented at ISA 2011Congratulations to Teresa Kramarz, University of Toronto, who won the Graduate Student Paper Award for her paper presented at ISA 2011: “World Bank Alliances: Evaluating the Partnership Promise.” Graduate students are invited to participate in the Environmental Studies Section (ESS) Graduate Student Paper Award Competition sponsored by the Environmental Studies Section of ISA. The award was established in 2011 to recognize the best paper with an environment-related theme presented at the ISA Annual Convention. The Award Committee consists of the Executive Committee of the ESS plus the ESS representative to the journal, Global Environmental Politics. The ESS Chair appoints a member of the Executive Committee to chair the award committee. The awardee receives a $100 prize plus consideration for publication by the journal Global Environmental Politics.
Peter Russell Wins APSA PrizeWe are delighted to announce that Professor Emeritus Peter Russell is this year’s recipient of the Mildred A. Schwartz Award, recognizing his lifetime achievement in advancing the study of Canadian politics and bringing Canadian politics to the international political science community. The award is offered by the Canadian politics section of the American Political Science Association. As the Department’s letter of nomination put it: “Peter Russell is one of the great treasures of Canadian academia and a giant in the study of Canadian politics and law. Peter has made signal contributions to no fewer than four thematic areas that fall within the orbit of Canadian politics: judicial politics, constitutional politics and reform, the politics and rights of indigenous peoples, and the practice of parliamentary government. The breadth and depth of his scholarship, the impact of his work, and his engagement in public affairs are simply stunning….Extraordinary scholar, dedicated teacher, respected public intellectual and engaged citizen – Peter Russell has profoundly shaped Canadian scholarship and Canadian public life. He richly deserves the Mildred Schwartz Prize.” The award will be presented at the American Political Science Association meetings in New Orleans later this year. Check your APSA program for the date and time of the annual business meeting of the Canadian politics section to honour Peter in person.
Professor Louis Pauly has been named Department Chair. His term begins on July 1, 2012.Appointed an assistant professor in the Department 25 years ago, Lou now holds the Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Governance. As Director of the Centre for International Studies from 1997 to 2011, he helped lay the foundations for the Munk School of Global Affairs, where he serves as Director, Research Programs until June 30. A graduate of Cornell University, the London School of Economics, New York University, and Fordham University, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Senior Fellow of Massey College, a Fellow of Trinity College, and affiliated faculty member of the School of Public Policy and Governance and the Munk School. He has held visiting professorships at Oxford University, Northwestern University, and Osaka City University. With Emanuel Adler, he edits International Organization, the top-ranked journal in the fields of international relations and international political economy. He is a member of the board of governors of Upper Canada College and of the board of directors of the University of Toronto Press. Before coming to the U of T, he held management positions in the Royal Bank of Canada and served on the staff of the International Monetary Fund. A prolific scholar, his research and teaching interests range from the politics of financial market deepening and industrial innovation in East Asia to the history of multilateral economic institutions to the evolution of fiscal federalism in Canada and Europe. He has been married for 34 years to Caryl Clark, a professor of musicology and opera studies in the Faculty of Music at the U of T. They have two children, Tessa and Reid. “I have always been proud to be a U of T professor and especially to be a member of our illustrious department,” Lou says. “The fact that my colleagues have asked me to serve as chair is an honour. Their goals are my goals, and our common challenge will be to live up to the high standards set for us by David Cameron. He is an exemplary leader, and his legacy is a prominent, vibrant, and cohesive community of scholars, staff, students, and alumni. Our collective aspiration is to reinforce and enhance all that he has done for Canada and this great university.”
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