Office Location
SS 3008
Phone Number
416-978-2846
Fax Number
416-978-5566
Email Address
Area Group(s)
- Canadian Government
- Comparative Politics
Education
- B.A., University of Toronto
- M.A., University of Toronto
- A.M., Harvard University
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Robert Vipond
Professor Emeritus
Biography
Interested in political development, especially in Canada and the U.S. This approach spans a variety of subject areas: federalism (Liberty and Community); constitutional theory (“Rights Talk in Canada in the Late Nineteenth Century”); ideational diffusion (“The Civil Rights Movement Comes to Winnipeg”); healthcare (“The Virus of Consumerism”); and the discipline of political science (The Comparative Turn). His most recent book is Making a Global City: How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity (Toronto: UTP, 2017) which explores changing ideas of citizenship through the history of a Toronto public school. He is also co-editor of the two volume anthology entitled Roads to
Confederation: The Making of Canada, 1867 (UTP, 2017).
Research Interests
- Constitutionalism
- Federalism
- Canadian and American Politics
- Political Thought
Recent News
- Robert Vipond awarded Ontario Historical Society’s Brant Award
- 2018 Awards of Excellence
- Political Science SSHRC Recipients
- Dusting Off The Archives
- The Evolution of the British North America Act