Remembering Lee Ann Fujii (1962 – 2018)
March 5, 2018
We were deeply shocked and saddened by the sudden passing of Associate Professor Lee Ann Fujii, an exceptionally vibrant and much-loved member of the Political Science community, who died on March 2nd this year, at just 56. A highly respected scholar of political violence, ethnicity, race, African politics, and field methods, Lee Ann was born […]
Newsweek and International Affairs
March 2, 2018
Inequality and the Liberal International Order (LIO) Carla Norrlof published a piece in Newsweek based on an article for a Special Issue (SI) of International Affairs. The SI brings together leading proponents and critics of liberal internationalism to debate its future. Norrlof’s article discusses America’s current superpower status as well as economic and political inequality […]
President’s Impact Award 2017
March 2, 2018
Congratulations to Political Science Professor Ron Deibert who has received a 2017 President’s Impact Award (PIA). These awards recognise faculty members whose research has led to significant impact beyond academia or a specific field of research, including on society, culture, public policy, law, health, education, quality of life, a profession, the economy, and the environment, […]
The real cost of unlicensed childcare
March 1, 2018
Research to understand why governments continue to let unlicensed home child care businesses operate without any real oversight, despite the alarming rates of child deaths, has just been published in the Journal of Risk Research examining this question in the case of Ontario. Co-authored by Linda A. White, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, […]
New undergraduate Scholarship announced
February 15, 2018
The department is happy to announce the creation of the Elisabeth Wallace Undergraduate Scholarship, an in-course award open to political science undergraduate students enrolled in a Major or Specialist program. Mary Elisabeth Wallace (1910 – 2009) was a distinguished political biographer and the first female faculty member in what was then known as the Department […]
Islamophobia in Canada
January 29, 2018
Today marks one year since the horrific shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre in Quebec City. Two political science faculty, Aisha Ahmad and Christopher Cochrane reflect on Islamophobia in Canada and the need to address anti-Muslim sentiment. The complete U of T News article is available here. The Centre for Ethics will host an […]
Undergraduate Student Awards
January 29, 2018
The annual student awards reception took place on Thursday, January 25th with faculty, staff, students, their proud parents and donors in attendance. Twenty six awards were handed out in total this year, one to Laird Alexander Morris, who received the The Mary Keenan Award. With his sights firmly set on law school next year, Laird, […]
The unimpeachable president
January 18, 2018
With Saturday marking the first anniversary of U.S. President Donald Trump taking office, U of T News featured experts at the University of Toronto who have weighed in with Globe and Mail op-eds that take critical aim at the presidency. Clifford Orwin, professor of political science, looks at the unimpeachable president. The U.S. Constitution allows […]
PhD candidate lead on APSR article
January 9, 2018
A paper that won the APSA 2017 Legislative Studies CQ Press Award (September 2017) has just been published in the American Political Science Review (APSR), political science’s premier scholarly research journal. The lead on the paper, entitled “Non-Representative Representatives: An Experimental Study of the Decision Making of Elected Politicians” is PhD candidate Lior Sheffer, an […]
The Year Ahead
January 5, 2018
U of T News spoke to political scientists Janice Stein, Aisha Ahmad, Randall Hansen, Phil Triadafilopoulos, Chris Cochrane and Nelson Wiseman as they weigh in on what may be in store in the year ahead both internationally and closer to home. The full article is available here. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) […]