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Department graduates and faculty honoured with seven nominations for CPSA prizes

April 27, 2011

It has been a very good year for nominations from the Canadian Political Science Association from the Department of Political Science. We received nominations for current faculty, graduated PhDs, and current PhDs in every category except the French-language book prize.

The nominations were as follows:

  • Professor Stephen Clarkson is nominated for the Donald Smiley prize for the book A Perilous Imbalance: The Globalization of Canadian Law and Governance, which he co-authored with Professor Stepan Wood.
  • Vincent Pouliot, who received his PhD from the Department in November 2008, received a nomination for the 2011 prize in International Politics for his book International Security in Practice: The Politics of NATO–Russian Diplomacy.
  • Debra Thompson has been nominated for the Vincent Lemieux Prize, awarded annually to the best thesis, for Seeing Like a Racial State: The Census and the Politics of Race in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Dr Thompson received her PhD from the Department in November 2010.
  • Professor Neil Nevitte and graduated PhD Stephen White (June 2010), along with Antoine Bilodeau, co-authored a paper which has been nominated for the John McMenemy Prize. Their paper, The Development of Dual Loyalties: Immigrants’ Integration to Canadian Regional Dynamics, was published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science in September 2010.
  • Also nominated for the John McMenemy prize is a paper co-authored by Professor Peter Loewen and Frédérick Bastien, (In)Significant Elections? Federal By–elections in Canada, 1963–2008. It was published in March 2010.
  • Cheryl Collier, who received her PhD from the Department in June 2006, is nominated for the Jill Vickers prize for “The Disappearing Woman? Locating Gender Equality in Contemporary Child Care and Anti–Violence Policy Debates in Canada.” The Jill Vickers prize is awarded annually for the best paper given at last year’s CPSA meeting on the topic of gender and politics.
  • Also nominated for the Jill Vickers prize is Anne Staver, a current PhD candidate in the Department, for her paper “Family Reunification Policies and Diverse Family Life: A Fraught Relationship.”

Congratulations to all the nominees. The winners will be announced at the CPSA conference dinner in May.