New Faces
July 8, 2020
Please join us in extending a very warm welcome to the newest members of the Political Science Department! NAOMI ADIV joins UTM this Fall as Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream). She has taught urban planning, urban studies and geography for over a decade and has published on the racial politics of public space, the social uses […]
University of Toronto Excellence Award
May 21, 2020
Congratulations to undergraduate student Cheryl Cheung who has received a University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA). Going into her third year majoring in political science, with minors in visual studies and American studies, Cheryl will be embarking on the project ‘Legacies of Blood and Law: State Formation in a Global Era’ under the guidance of […]
Remembering Dr. Sylvia Ostry (1927 – 2020), CC OM FRSC
May 12, 2020
Sylvia Ostry helped build the foundations of the Munk School. A world-leading liberal internationalist and Canadian patriot, she passed away on May 7, 2020, just short of her 93rd birthday. The obituaries cited below provide a sense of Sylvia’s path-breaking career in Canada’s public service in the decades before she joined us at the University […]
Remembering Augustine Mahiga (1945 – 2020)
May 5, 2020
Over the weekend faculty members informed us of the death of Augustine Mahiga, a former student of ours, who went on to have a very active political career and was currently serving as Minister of Constitutional and Legal Affairs of Tanzania. Emeritus Professor Richard Stren has kindly shared his memories of Augustine below: “We were […]
June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development
April 30, 2020
Congratulations to our graduate student Kevin Edmonds who has won New College’s June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development. A PhD candidate specializing in Caribbean political economy, histories of alternative/illicit development, foreign intervention and the region’s radical political tradition, his publications include “Guns, Gangs and Garrison Communities in the Politics of Jamaica at the Turn of […]
CPSA Shortlist & ISA Best Paper Finalist
April 17, 2020
Congratulations to Professor Diana Fu whose book Mobilizing Without the Masses (Cambridge University Press, 2018) has been shortlisted for the 2020 CPSA (Canadian Political Science Association) Prize in Comparative Politics! The website states: “Fu’s impressive political ethnography of labour organizations in China examines political activism in contexts where large-scale protest is illegal. Mobilizing Without the […]
Remembering Mel Watkins (1932 – 2020)
April 6, 2020
Professor Melville H. Watkins OC, Professor Emeritus of the Departments of Political Science and Economics, passed away on April 2 at age 87. For more than fifty years, he was a leading figure in the study of Canadian economic history and the nature of Canada’s political economy. He provided a direct link between an earlier […]
ISA Awards
March 9, 2020
Congratulations to Professor Ron Deibert who has been awarded two ISA (International Studies Association) awards: the ISA Canada Distinguished Scholar award and the STAIR Distinguished Scholar ‘Transversal Acts’ award. The ISA-Canada Distinguished Scholar award honours exceptional scholarship accomplishments and contributions to the development of the study of International Relations in Canada. The STAIR Distinguished Scholar […]
YWCA Award
March 3, 2020
Yet another award for Professor Sylvia Bashevkin who has received a YWCA Toronto (Young Women’s Christian Association) Woman of Distinction award (2020) in the field of education for her dedication to promoting women in research and academic leadership. YWCA Toronto is a charity whose vision is to be a leader in transforming the lives of […]
‘Taxing Africa’ named to Foreign Affairs’ list of best books
February 4, 2020
The latest book from Wilson Prichard Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform, and Development, has been named one of Foreign Affairs’ best books of 2019. Prichard is an associate professor jointly appointed to the department of political science in the Faculty of Arts & Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. A research […]