Canada and Minister Monsef
September 28, 2016
U of T News recently spoke to Aisha Ahmad, an assistant professor in the department of Political Science about the recent controversy surrounding revelations that federal cabinet minister Maryam Monsef was born in Iran, not Afghanistan as originally thought. Ahmad is the director of the Islam and Politics Initiative and a senior researcher at the […]
Bissell-Heyd Fellow
September 28, 2016
Congratulations to Professor Sara Hughes from the Department of Political Science (UTM) on her recent appointment as a Bissell-Heyd Fellow in American Studies at the Centre for the Study of the United States (CSUS) at the Munk School of Global Affairs. Hughes, who works on questions of urban politics and climate change in North America, […]
Neville praises U of T library project that cuts cost for students
September 27, 2016
When 1,900 University of Toronto students attended their first lectures of the year, they were in for a pleasant surprise. Their professors revealed that students didn’t have to pay for their course readings because they’d now be available online thanks to the ‘zero-to-low cost course’ (ZTLCC) project which connects professors with librarians to find ways […]
Remembering Jack McLeod (1932 – 2016)
September 26, 2016
On Thursday, September 22nd 2016, Political Science Professor Emeritus Jack McLeod passed away peacefully in his 84th year of a full and well-lived life, surrounded by his family. He earned a B.A. and M.A. in economics at the University of Saskatchewan before embarking on a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Toronto which […]
Political Science SSHRC Recipients
September 21, 2016
Congratulations to all of our recently announced Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) award recipients! Faculty from Political Science and their projects are named below: Connection Grants: 2015-2016 Competition Awards Margaret Kohn ‘Approaches to Public Goods: Solidarity and Social Justice’ Robert Vipond & Peter Loewen ‘American, British, and Canadian Political Development: Democratization and Citizenship’ […]
Could U.S. bombings decide elections?
September 21, 2016
U of T News recently spoke to U of T Scarborough Assistant Professor of Political Science Ryan Hurl (who is also at the Munk School of Global Affairs’ Centre for the Study of the United States), about whether national security could decide the election in the wake of the recent bombings in New York and […]
Trump or Hillary?
September 20, 2016
With just 48 days remaining until Americans cast their ballots, Matthew Lebo, a visiting professor at U of T’s Department of Political Science and The Centre for the Study of the United States at The Munk School of Global Affairs, will host an event next Monday that will focus on U.S. presidential dynamics and the […]
TIFF Debut
September 15, 2016
A film adaptation of Ron Deibert’s 2013 book Black Code is premiering this week at the Toronto International Film Festival highlighting how the same technologies that can accelerate democratic change can also be used to restrict individual liberties, taking viewers to Tibetan exiles under Chinese surveillance in India, media activists in Brazil and Syrian citizens […]
Fulbright Awards
September 15, 2016
Congratulations to two of our PhD candidates, Adrienne Davidson and Emily Scott, who have both been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Canada award. Beginning in September, Emily will be stationed at The Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES) at the Elliot School for International Affairs working with Michael Barnett, a foremost scholar of IR and humanitarianism […]
Why Mulcair matters to the NDP
September 14, 2016
In his latest article for the Ottawa Citizen, Nelson Wiseman argues that if the NDP elects a new leader, the party is almost certain to pick someone from English Canada resulting in the possibility of losing the valuable Quebec seats it currently holds, reverting to being a party with a few seats in Ontario and […]