Egor Lazarev wins two APSA Awards
September 27, 2018
Congratulations to one of our newest faculty members, Egor Lazarev, who was recently selected for two APSA (American Political Science Association) Awards: The 2018 Women and Politics Research Section Best Paper Award for “Laws in Conflict: Legacies of War, Gender, and Legal Pluralism in Chechnya.” The purpose of this section is to foster the study […]
APSA Grant to Honour Lee Ann Fujii
September 25, 2018
At the 2018 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, a group of Lee Ann Fujii’s friends and colleagues – including Stephanie McNulty, Nicholas Rush Smith, and Robin Turner – launched a fundraising effort in her honour. Recognizing her extraordinary impact on the discipline through her scholarship and her mentorship, her colleagues decided to […]
Constantine Mitsotakis Memorial Lecture
September 24, 2018
On September 18th, political theorist Ryan Balot delivered the second annual Constantine Mitsotakis Memorial Lecture in honour of the late politician and former Prime Minister of Greece (1990–1993) in Athens. Introduced by New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, son of the late politician who is widely tipped to become the next Greek Prime Minister, the […]
Yasmin Dawood named to Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
September 12, 2018
Yasmin Dawood, a leading scholar of election law from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law and cross-appointed in the Department of Political Science, is one of six emerging scholars at U of T named this year as members of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Dawood, whose pioneering […]
Jacques Bertrand leads new $400,000 IDRC project in Myanmar
September 5, 2018
Jacques Bertrand and his collaborators are recent recipients of a new International Development Research Centre (IDRC) funded project that continues the Asian Institute’s active involvement in Myanmar’s political and economic transition. The $400,000 project is part of the IDRC and Global Affairs Canada’s “Knowledge for Democracy in Myanmar” (K4DM) initiative that seeks to support democratic […]
SSHRC Award
August 27, 2018
Congratulations to political scientist Sara Hughes, a recent recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada Insight Development Grant (2018). The pilot project, entitled Learning from the Flint Water Crisis: Measuring and Governing Urban Water Stress, will develop a new approach to conceptualising, measuring and predicting urban water stress with a […]
Best Paper Award (CPS)
August 23, 2018
Congratulations to political scientist Diana Fu whose article “Disguised Collective Action in China” (2017) was selected as co-winner of the best paper published in the journal Comparative Political Studies (CPS). CPS offers scholarly work on comparative politics at both the cross-national and intra-national levels. Dedicated to relevant, in-depth analyses, CPS provides the timeliest methodology, theory, […]
International Policy Ideas Challenge 2018
August 20, 2018
Congratulations to political science students Nathan Sears, Michaela Pedersen, Brianna Botchwey and alumnus Craig Damian Smith who are all finalists of the ‘International Policy Ideas Challenge 2018‘. Organised by Global Affairs Canada in collaboration with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the International Policy Ideas Challenge is designed to identify concrete […]
New Faces 2018
July 16, 2018
A very warm welcome to all our new faculty who officially joined the political science department on July 1! Martha Balaguera (PhD, UMass Amherst) joins us from UCSD, where she was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies. Her work focuses on social movements with an emphasis on transborder forms of activism in […]
Robert Vipond awarded Ontario Historical Society’s Brant Award
July 6, 2018
Congratulations to political scientist Robert Vipond on being awarded the Ontario Historical Society’s 2017 Brant Award for his book Making a Global City: How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity, published by University of Toronto Press. The Brant Award recognizes the best book on multicultural history in Ontario published in the past three years. In 1967, […]