Milner Memorial Award
August 3, 2023
Congratulations to Ziibiing Lab Director Uahikea Maile on receiving, along with his Censure U of T colleagues, the Milner Memorial Award. The award was established by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) in 1969 in honour of James Milner, a former chairperson of the Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee, to recognize a distinguished contribution […]
Ran Hirschl named David R. Cameron Distinguished Professor in Law and Politics
August 3, 2023
Congratulations to Ran Hirschl who has been appointed the David R. Cameron Distinguished Professor in Law and Politics, from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2028. Professor Hirschl studies constitutional law and constitutional institutions and their intersection with comparative politics and society. He is the author of several major books including City, State: Constitutionalism and […]
New Appointment
July 11, 2023
Congratulations to Peter Loewen who has been appointed the Robert Vipond Distinguished Professor in Democracy, from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2028. Professor Loewen, the Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, is also the Director of PEARL (Policy, Elections & Representation Lab), Associate Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute […]
New Appointments
July 6, 2023
Our latest (July 1) faculty appointments include: Steven Bernstein was appointed Chair, UTM for a four-and-a-half-year term beginning July 1, 2023. Randy Besco, Olga Chyzh and Alison Smith were each appointed Associate Professor with tenure. (July 1, 2023). Rebecca Kingston was appointed Associate Chair – Undergraduate. Kanta Murali was appointed Associate Chair (without portfolio). Mark […]
New Faces
July 4, 2023
The Department is proud to welcome and introduce our newest faculty, staff and postdoctoral fellows! Debra Burrowes joins UTM as the Assistant to the Chair. She comes with a wealth of experience in providing high-level administrative support in various capacities within the University of Toronto. In her new role, Debra will be responsible for […]
Multiple APSA awards for ‘The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics behind the Judicial Construction of Europe’
July 4, 2023
Congratulations to Tommaso Pavone, one of our newest faculty members, for receiving two book awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA) for his book, The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics behind the Judicial Construction of Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2022). The C. Herman Pritchett Book Award is given by the Law & Courts Section […]
Two ASA awards for ‘Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China’
June 12, 2023
Congratulations to Lynette Ong whose book, Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China (Oxford University Press), has received two awards from the American Sociological Association (ASA): The Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Political Sociology, Co-Winner, 2023 (Section on Political Sociology) The Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award 2023 (Section on Sociology of Human Rights) […]
Outstanding Teaching Award
May 31, 2023
The faculty of Arts & Science has named Phillip Lipscy, director of the Centre for the Study of Global Japan and chair in Japanese Politics and Global Affairs at the Munk School, as a recipient of this year’s Outstanding Teaching Award! Presented annually, the award recognizes teaching excellence in undergraduate and graduate education with a […]
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
May 23, 2023
We are delighted to announce that Nicole Wu has been selected to join the 2023-2025 cohort of CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars. The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) is welcoming 16 distinguished early-career researchers to the prestigious CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program, an ambitious initiative providing two years of unrestricted research funding to talented researchers […]
CPSA Award Shortlists
May 11, 2023
Congratulations to Emerita Professor Sylvia Bashevkin whose article, “Second-Wave Women’s Movements as Foreign Policy Actors: Assessing Canadian Feminist Interventions before 1995,” was shortlisted for the Best Article in Gender & Politics from CPSA’s Canadian Journal of Political Science (CJPS). Her paper “Explaining Reproductive Health Access: Provincial Abortion Policies in the Wake of Decriminalization, 1988-2018” was […]