Congratulations to Ella Street, 2012-13 Connaught International Scholarship Recipient

November 6, 2012

The primary purpose of the Connaught International Scholarships for Doctoral Students is to assist graduate units in recruiting and supporting outstanding international scholars to the University of Toronto’s graduate programs.

Ms Street graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s in Political Science from Colorado College, where she received multiple awards and honours, including the Edith Bramhall Award for the Outstanding Scholar in Political Science, the CC President’s Research Scholarship to pursue field research in Ladakh, India, and the Humanity in Action Fellowship to pursue research on Holocaust memorialization in Poland. Before joining U of T’s Department of Political Science, Ms. Street earned her master’s degree in Government and Philosophy at Georgetown University. She has been named by two of the leading political theorists in classical thought as an outstanding scholar with a strong academic career ahead of her. Ms Street’s interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French political thought, ancient political philosophy, continental thought, and competing conceptions of rational authority.

Click here to read about all of the 2012-13 Connaught International Scholarship Recipients.