David Rayside

Professor Emeritus, Royal Society of Canada
647-973-8087

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Areas of Interest

  • Politics of Sexual Diversity in Canada, the U.S., and Europe
  • Political Mobilization by Religious Conservatives
  • Muslim response to sexual diversity

Biography

Major publications apart from those listed below include these co-edited volumes - Equity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour, with Gerald Hunt (2007); Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States, with Clyde Wilcox (2011); Conservatism in Canada, with Jim Farney (2013). He has filled various administrative positions at the U of T., including Graduate Director and Associate Chair in Political Science, Vice-Principal and Acting Principal at University College, and Director of the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. He has also served on the governing councils of the Canadian and American Political Science Associations. He retired formally in 2013, and in recent years has written a series of long illustrated essays in social history centred on a small village in Eastern Ontario, accessible on his website listed above.

Education

BA (Hons), Carleton University
AM, University of Michigan
PhD, University of Michigan