ASA Charles Tilly Award
September 26, 2019
Congratulations to Associate Professor Diana Fu whose book Mobilizing without the Masses: Control and Contention in China was a co-winner of ASA’s (American Sociological Association) 2019 Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the Collective Behaviour and Social Movements section. Established in 1986, the award recognizes a publication that has added to the […]
Remembering Jean Edward Smith (1932 – 2019)
September 17, 2019
The Department has lost one of its eminent professors emeriti. Jean Edward Smith served in the Department of Political Science and its precursor, the Department of Political Economy, for thirty-five years. He left Dartmouth and joined us in 1965. He loved teaching undergraduates, and he introduced several generations to comparative politics, American politics and foreign […]
APSA Dissertation Award
September 9, 2019
Congratulations to alumnus Igor Shoikhedbrod who has been awarded APSA’s 2019 New Political Science Dissertation Award for his dissertation “Rights Discourse and Economic Domination: Thinking Beyond the Narrow Horizon of Liberal Justice,” (University of Toronto, 2018). This award is given to ‘an outstanding Political Science dissertation finished within the previous year of the APSA meeting […]
Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award
August 22, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Grace Skogstad who has been awarded APSA’s annual Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award (2019) which honours one of the leading lights in the field of Political Sociology who have made significant contributions to the study of Canadian politics, either through the development of political analysis of Canada or through incorporating Canada […]
RBC Chair in Economic and Public Policy
August 12, 2019
Congratulations to Professor Linda White who has been appointed as the next RBC Chair in Economic and Public Policy. This Chair is held by a member of the Departments of Political Science or Economics on a five year rotating basis, and is bestowed on an internationally renowned scholar who will provide intellectual leadership in policy […]
Book award
July 26, 2019
Yet another book award for Sylvia Baskevkin as her book ‘Women as Foreign Policy Leaders: National Security and Gender Politics in Superpower America’ is among the 24 best new International Relations Books (2019) from BookAuthority, the world’s leading site for nonfiction book recommendations. Congratulations Sylvia!
Grace Skogstad chosen as President of IPPA
July 25, 2019
Congratulations to Professor Grace Skogstad chosen for a two year term (2019 – 2021) as the President of the International Public Policy Association (IPPA), a non-profit organisation that promotes scientific research in the field of Public Policy and its international development. It holds the world’s largest biennial international conference of public policy scholars, and summer […]
ARNOVA book award
July 19, 2019
Congratulations to Wendy Wong and co-author Sarah Stroup who have been selected as the recipients of the Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research from ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action) for their book The Authority Trap: Strategic Choices of International NGOs. The award will be presented at the 48th […]
New Trinity College Associates
July 17, 2019
Congratulations to Professors Aisha Ahmad and Matthew Walton who have both been appointed as Associates of University of Toronto’s Trinity College, each for a two-year term, effective July 1, 2019. According to the website, Trinity’s Fellows and Associates “play an active role in the life of the College. Enhancing the student experience and enriching the […]
New Faces
July 16, 2019
The Department of Political Science extends a very warm welcome to all our new faculty and Postdoctoral Fellows who joined us on July 1st! ELIZABETH ACORN: Liz is joining the Department as an Assistant Professor. She will be teaching courses in public law and international relations and continuing her research on international law and the […]