Political Science Alumna Named NYT Non-fiction Critic
December 12, 2017
Jennifer Ildiko Szalai, a graduate of the University of Toronto where she studied political science and peace and conflict studies, has been named as the new non-fiction critic at The New York Times. To read more about her and her exciting new appointment visit The New York Times here.
Global Thinker 2017
December 5, 2017
Ronald Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, has been honoured with a 2017 Global Thinker Award by Foreign Policy magazine. “In a year when the full scope of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election is just beginning to be fully understood, Citizen Lab’s […]
JHI Award
November 30, 2017
Congratulations to Political Scientist Rebecca Kingston who has been awarded a Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) Research Fellowship (2018-2019). Research Fellows are University of Toronto tenured faculty members by the time of their fellowship, chosen for their distinction in achievements relative to their career stage, the excellence of their proposed project, and its relation to the […]
UN Climate Summit
November 8, 2017
The UN climate change conference, otherwise known as COP23 which runs from Nov. 6-17, is aiming to work toward a “rule book” to guide governments toward the implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which set a goal of keeping global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees. Speaking to U of T News, Matthew Hoffmann, […]
Essay Prize
October 20, 2017
Congratulations to Alexis M. Lerner who has won the Kornberg-Jezierski Family Memorial Essay Prize in Holocaust Studies. Alexis is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science and at the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She is currently a 2017-2018 Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute. Alexis […]
The Catalan Conflict
October 16, 2017
With Spain and Catalonia at a standoff following an October 1st referendum, pressure is mounting on the separatist government of the autonomous region to either declare or abandon its push for independence. Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has given Catalonia’s separatist leader five days to say whether or not he has declared independence. If Catalonia […]
Keith Davey Event: A statement from Political Science Chair, Antoinette Handley
October 5, 2017
Yesterday afternoon, the Department of Political Science, Victoria College and the Association of Political Science Students (APSS) at the University of Toronto co-hosted the annual Keith Davey Forum on the topic “Social Inequality: Is it a real problem? Can it be solved?” The phrasing of the topic as well as the constitution of the panel […]
Making Jihad Pay
October 5, 2017
Aisha Ahmad, Assistant Professor of Political Science at U of T and Director of the Islam and Global Affairs Initiative at the Munk School of Global Affairs, reveals the profits to be made from civil war and the reasoning behind business elites and ideologically motivated Islamists working together for Foreign Affairs magazine.
Mapping race and gender in politics
October 3, 2017
The Toronto Star recently reported on a new research project headed by Erin Tolley, political scientist at the University of Toronto, which suggests that women and racialized minorities chug through the political pipeline — whereas the opposite occurs for white men. For women, the toughest hurdle is at the nomination level, the first checkpoint into […]
Alexander von Humboldt International Research Award
September 29, 2017
Political Science Professor Ran Hirschl has won a coveted Alexander von Humboldt International Research Award (3.5 million Euros for a five-year term), Germany’s most generous research prize. It is aimed at attracting top scholars in all disciplines to conduct research in Germany. The selection committee describes Hirschl as ‘one of the world’s leading scholars of […]