Next Steps Conference
April 21, 2015
The Next Steps Conference is taking place on May 1st & 2nd, 2015. This conference is open to all students and recent graduates of the Faculty of Arts & Science. To see the poster for the event, please click here. The Next Steps Conference will have sessions for: – Undergraduate students on the cusp of […]
Outstanding Teaching Assistant
April 21, 2015
The Department of Political Science is pleased to announce that Mr. Nikola Milicic is the winner of the 2013-14 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for St. George Campus: Nikola Milicic is an outstanding Teaching Assistant. He has excellent organizational and leadership skills. He has tremendous enthusiasm for the ideas and for the enterprise of introducing them […]
Dusting Off The Archives
April 17, 2015
Professor Robert Vipond is featured on the front page of today’s Toronto Star for his involvement in the creation of a miniature museum at the city’s Clinton Street Junior Public School. His work with the project will culminate in a new book to be published by the University of Toronto Press, entitled: The Making of […]
Alumni Association’s Awards of Excellence
April 16, 2015
Congratulations go out to PhD student Matt Gordner who, earlier this week, was awarded an alumni association award of excellence. To read more about the award and Matt’s extensive list of accomplishments, please check out a short profile here.
Health Care Is About Values
April 10, 2015
Professor Peter Loewen and Alex Kamath, who has been studying in the Department of Political Science on a Fulbright research grant, have recently published an op-ed in The Ottawa Citizen on the politics of health care. Their piece argues that the structure of a health-delivery system is based on overriding political values. To read their […]
Greece’s Debt Crisis
April 9, 2015
The debt situation in Greece remains ever volatile as the nation continues to teeter on the brink of financial collapse. Professor Phil Triadafilopoulous recently did a special ‘question and answer’ segment with U of T News to explain the struggles facing any potential recovery. It is an illuminating look into the complexities of the global […]
Alumna Wins Fulbright Scholarship
April 8, 2015
A hearty congrats on behalf of the Department of Political Science goes out to Elizabeth Sweitzer who has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S Student Program grant to Brazil for an English Teaching Assistantship. Elizabeth graduated from the Department with her honours Bachelor of Arts degree, with distinction, in 2013. She will take up her […]
Solidarity Across Borders: Forum on Migration + Mining in the Dominican Republic
April 8, 2015
In March, the Equity Studies Student Union, in collaboration with multiple divisions and departments, had planned to host three activists from a grassroots cooperative in the Dominican Republic called La Federación de Campesinos Hacia El Progreso. La Federación fights for the land rights of local farmers, and ecological preservation. Unfortunately, these Dominican delegates were denied […]
Exploring Violence and Peace in Divided Societies
April 6, 2015
Several of the Department’s faculty members will be acting as discussants for the Munk School’s upcoming workshop put on ‘Exploring Violence and Peace in Divided Societies’. This workshop has been organized by Professor Jeffrey Kopstein and will take place April 13th at the Munk School for Global Affairs, Room 108 North. The workshop will feature […]
The Myth of the Democratic Recession
April 2, 2015
On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the Journal of Democracy recently posed the question to its readers: “Is Democracy in Decline?” Our own Lucan Way and colleague Steven Levitsky, of Harvard, argue that much of the excitement over the rapid democratization of the world in the 1990s was over-hyped. For example, the collapse of […]