Sylvia Bashevkin receives SSHRC funding
June 15, 2015
Congrats to Professor Bashevkin, who has been awarded a prestigious Insight Development Grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The title of Bashevkin’s project is: Women’s Leadership in the Canadian Provinces. This study is among the first to document and evaluate in comparative terms the contributions of women premiers and […]
China’s Great Cannon
June 2, 2015
Political Science Professor Ronald Deibert, who is also the director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, is part of a team that has published a new report on China’s latest cyber weapon, which they call ‘The Great Cannon’. In partnership with other scholars at the International Computer Science Institute; the […]
McMenemy Prize Nomination
May 26, 2015
Jerald Sabin, a PhD student in the Department has been nominated for this year’s McMenemy Prize for the best article in the Canadian Journal of Political Science. His article, “Contested Colonialism: Responsible Government and Political Development in the Yukon“, was published in the 47th volume of the CJPS. You can read the abstract of his […]
2015 QS World University Rankings: Politics and International Studies
April 29, 2015
The University of Toronto has once again been ranked as the top university in Canada for the study of politics and international studies, according to the 2015 QS World University ranking survey. This year U of T placed 27th in the world, which is up six places from our final standing in 2014. The next […]
Outstanding Teaching Assistant
April 21, 2015
The Department of Political Science is pleased to announce that Mr. Nikola Milicic is the winner of the 2013-14 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for St. George Campus: Nikola Milicic is an outstanding Teaching Assistant. He has excellent organizational and leadership skills. He has tremendous enthusiasm for the ideas and for the enterprise of introducing them […]
Alumni Association’s Awards of Excellence
April 16, 2015
Congratulations go out to PhD student Matt Gordner who, earlier this week, was awarded an alumni association award of excellence. To read more about the award and Matt’s extensive list of accomplishments, please check out a short profile here.
Alumna Wins Fulbright Scholarship
April 8, 2015
A hearty congrats on behalf of the Department of Political Science goes out to Elizabeth Sweitzer who has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S Student Program grant to Brazil for an English Teaching Assistantship. Elizabeth graduated from the Department with her honours Bachelor of Arts degree, with distinction, in 2013. She will take up her […]
Best Book on Law and Courts
March 31, 2015
The Department congratulates Professor Ran Hirschl, whose recent book: Comparative Matters: The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional Law (OUP, 2014), has won the 2015 American Political Science Association C. Herman Pritchett award for the best book on law & courts. The only other Canadian author to have won this award is our own Peter Russell, in […]
Congrats David!
March 26, 2015
The Department of Political Science offers a hearty congratulations to Mr. David Cosolo for being awarded a position in the prestigious Jaimie Anderson Parliamentary Internship. David is a fourth year student at the U of T studying International Relations, American Studies, and Political Science. In his time here, David has served as Co-President of the […]
Think You Know U of T?
March 13, 2015
This weekend, the University is celebrating it’s 188th birthday. To celebrate the occasion, we’ve put together a little quiz to test your knowledge of the U of T’s history. Check it out: http://bit.ly/1GvHMKe Let us know your score on Facebook or Twitter.