APSA Honorary Mention
July 10, 2019
Congratulations to Professor Shivaji Mukherjee on receiving an honorable mention for the APSA Mary Parker Follett prize for his article “Colonial Origins of Maoist Insurgency in India: Historical Institutions and Civil War.” The award, given by the APSA Politics and History section, recognizes the best article published on politics and history published in the preceding […]
Article Award
July 4, 2019
Congratulations to Professor Diana Fu, a recent recipient of a 2019 Distinguished Scholarly Article Award from the American Sociological Association’s Labor Movements Section for her article ‘Fragmented control: Governing contentious labor organizations in China,’ published in Governance.
New appointments
June 28, 2019
Our latest UTSG faculty appointments (July 1) include Kenichi Ariga (to Associate Professor, Teaching Stream) Jonathan Craft (to Associate Professor) and Kanta Murali (to Associate Professor). At UTM, Erin Tolley has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor and at UTSC, Diana Fu, Robert Schertzer and Torrey Shanks have all been promoted to the […]
Canada Research Chair in Global Governance & Civil Society
June 17, 2019
University of Toronto Political Scientist Wendy Wong has been awarded the Canada Research Chair in Global Governance and Civil Society. Wong, whose main research interests lie in the politics of organization, why human beings choose to act collectively, their choices to go about doing it, and the effects of those choices, said she is grateful […]
CPP Fellowship
June 6, 2019
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Matthew Walton who has been selected for a CPP (Centre for Community Partnerships) Community-Engaged Teaching Faculty Fellowship for the 2019 – 2020 academic year. The aim of this pilot program is to support innovative instructors across the University of Toronto to develop new, or enhance existing Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) or Community-Engaged […]
CPSA Wins
June 6, 2019
Congratulations to Professor Sylvia Bashevkin and alumna Alexandre Pelletier who both won awards this week at the 2019 CPSA annual conference. Professor Bashevkin won the 2019 CPSA Prize in International Relations while Alexandre was the winner of the Vincent-Lemieux prize for the best dissertation. Congratulations to both!
Dissertation Prize
June 3, 2019
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Egor Lazarev, winner of 2019 Law and Society Association’s (LSA) Dissertation Prize for his dissertation, “Laws in Conflict: Legacies of War and Legal Pluralism in Chechnya.” The Law and Society Association presents one award annually to the dissertation that best represents outstanding work in law and society research in the interdisciplinary […]
Governor General Gold Medal Award
May 23, 2019
Congratulations to Alexandre Pelletier who yesterday received a 2019 Governor General Gold Medal Award, one of the most prestigious awards that a student at a Canadian educational institution can receive. At U of T, the Gold Medal is awarded to three students who achieve the highest academic standing at the graduate level and was first […]
New Appointment for David Cameron
May 3, 2019
Congratulations to Professor of Political Science David Cameron who has been appointed as Special Advisor to the President and Provost for a two-year term effective January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2022. The full memo is available here.
CPSA shortlist
May 3, 2019
Congratulations to our doctoral student Erica Rayment, whose paper “Women in the House: The Substantive Representation of Women in the Canadian House of Commons Since 1968,” has been short listed for CPSA 2019 Jill Vickers Prize for the best conference paper in gender and politics delivered in 2018. The CPSA website has described the paper […]