Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award
August 3, 2023
The American Political Science Association (APSA) has awarded the 2023 Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award to Professor Alison Smith for her book, Multiple Barriers: The Multilevel Governance of Homelessness in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2022). University of Toronto Press describes the book as exploring “the forces that shape intergovernmental and multilevel governance dynamics […]
Milner Memorial Award
August 3, 2023
Congratulations to Ziibiing Lab Director Uahikea Maile on receiving, along with his Censure U of T colleagues, the Milner Memorial Award. The award was established by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) in 1969 in honour of James Milner, a former chairperson of the Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee, to recognize a distinguished contribution […]
Ran Hirschl named David R. Cameron Distinguished Professor in Law and Politics
August 3, 2023
Congratulations to Ran Hirschl who has been appointed the David R. Cameron Distinguished Professor in Law and Politics, from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2028. Professor Hirschl studies constitutional law and constitutional institutions and their intersection with comparative politics and society. He is the author of several major books including City, State: Constitutionalism and […]
Outstanding Teaching Award
May 31, 2023
The faculty of Arts & Science has named Phillip Lipscy, director of the Centre for the Study of Global Japan and chair in Japanese Politics and Global Affairs at the Munk School, as a recipient of this year’s Outstanding Teaching Award! Presented annually, the award recognizes teaching excellence in undergraduate and graduate education with a […]
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
May 23, 2023
We are delighted to announce that Nicole Wu has been selected to join the 2023-2025 cohort of CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars. The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) is welcoming 16 distinguished early-career researchers to the prestigious CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program, an ambitious initiative providing two years of unrestricted research funding to talented researchers […]
CPSA Award Shortlists
May 11, 2023
Congratulations to Emerita Professor Sylvia Bashevkin whose article, “Second-Wave Women’s Movements as Foreign Policy Actors: Assessing Canadian Feminist Interventions before 1995,” was shortlisted for the Best Article in Gender & Politics from CPSA’s Canadian Journal of Political Science (CJPS). Her paper “Explaining Reproductive Health Access: Provincial Abortion Policies in the Wake of Decriminalization, 1988-2018” was […]
Early Career Teaching Award
April 19, 2023
Congratulations to Uahikea Maile on receiving a 2022-23 Early Career Teaching Award which recognizes faculty who demonstrate an ‘exceptional commitment to student learning, pedagogical engagement, and teaching innovation.’ Up to four awards are offered annually. Award recipients will be honoured at the annual Excellence in Teaching Reception to be held in the Fall.
Awards of Excellence 2023
March 2, 2023
We are delighted to announce that Jonathan Craft, Dickson Eyoh, Lilach Gilady, Antoinette Handley, Ruth Marshall, Kanta Murali, Robert Vipond and Melissa Williams have been named this year’s recipients of the Northrop Frye Award (Faculty Team Category) for their collaboration on ‘The Undergraduate Curriculum Renewal Project,’ which developed and implemented a major renovation of the […]
Award Shortlist
November 30, 2022
Congratulations to Lynette Ong whose article “Thugs and Outsourcing of State Repression in China,” was shortlisted for the first annual Routledge Area Studies Award (Impact section). From the website: “The judges praised the high standard and quality of all the Award applications received. Our aim was to highlight original published research which showcases the unique […]
Winning Research
November 23, 2022
Congratulations to our faculty members who have received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) 2022 Insight Development Grant: Phillip Lipscy (Title of Project: Institutional Racism in International Relations). Lynette Ong (Title of Project: The Politics of Real Estate in China and Hong Kong). Alison Smith (Title of Project: The Politics of […]