New Appointments
July 14, 2024Our latest (July 1, 2024) faculty appointments include: Jacques Bertrand was appointed Junior Faculty Advisor for a one-year term. Louis Pauly was appointed Interim Chair, UTSG for a one-year term. Alexander...
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We provide an ideal setting for students and learners at all levels to engage with novel ideas, thorough scholarship and creative research in all of the discipline’s subfields, as well as in an array of interdisciplinary areas of inquiry. As a community of established and emerging scholars — teachers and students — we are uniquely positioned to draw upon a Canadian perspective as well as the university’s intellectual buzz and the city’s cultural diversity, to address the most enduring questions of politics, locally and internationally.
More than ever, our mission is to encourage our students to think broadly, critically, and internationally about the core features of democratic and global citizenship. We do this with a faculty that includes award-wining teachers, building on a legacy of famously gifted instructors — the likes of Harold Innis and C.B. Macpherson, Alan Bloom, Tom Pangle, and Janice Stein. With a history going back to the 1880s, the department now has a total faculty complement of over sixty across the three campuses of the University of Toronto.
Our mission is to encourage our students to think broadly, critically, and internationally about the core features of democratic and global citizenship.
Our latest (July 1, 2024) faculty appointments include: Jacques Bertrand was appointed Junior Faculty Advisor for a one-year term. Louis Pauly was appointed Interim Chair, UTSG for a one-year term. Alexander...
Congratulations to Dan Breznitz, who along with co-authors Steven Samford, (University of Michigan) and Michael Murphree (University of Sydney) have received the “That’s Interesting!” Award from the Academy of International Business for their...
A very warm welcome to the newest members of the Political Science Community! Myrthe Bartels (PhD, Leiden University) joins the department as a postdoctoral fellow working with Ryan Balot. Her...
Ran Hirschl has been appointed a University Professor, an elite designation bestowed on a small number of University of Toronto faculty members for distinguished scholarly achievement and pre-eminence in their fields. A professor...
Congratulations to Professor emeritus of Political Science Franklyn Griffiths, one of Canada's early scholars of Arctic international relations, recently named a Member of the Order of Canada. Currently the George Ignatieff...
David Wolfe has been appointed as Acting Associate Vice-President International Partnerships at U of T. A Professor Emeritus (as of the end of June) in Political Science at the University...
Congratulations to Lynette Ong and Menaka Philips who both recently received 2024 Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) awards. Lynette Ong was the co-winner of the 2024 prize in comparative politics established...
Congratulations to Filiz Kahraman whose article “What makes an international institution work for labor activists? Shaping international law through strategic litigation” has received an Honorable Mention for the 2023 Best Article...
Congratulations to all our faculty (and student!) who have been shortlisted for CPSA prizes: Professor Emerita Sylvia Bashevkin was shortlisted for the Jill Vickers prize which is awarded to the...
Congratulations to Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein who has been honoured with a 2024 100ABC (Accomplished Black Canadian) Women Award! The 100ABC Award celebrates excellence and innovation highlighting individuals and organizations...