Graduate Student Zack Taylor Named Stone Scholar
October 13, 2010
Ph.D. student Zack Taylor has been selected as a Stone Scholar for the Urban Politics Section at the American Political Science Association annual meeting. Last year the Urban Politics section initiated the Stone Scholar Award and dinner as a way to bring together senior scholars from the section with promising junior colleagues. The award is […]
Sylvia Bashevkin discusses the low level of representation of women in Canadian parliament in the Globe and Mail
October 13, 2010
Think of a country where the majority of citizens are relegated to just a fifth of the seats in the government. Think of Canada. Nearly 90 years after Agnes MacPhail became the country’s first female MP, women have failed to gain more than a secondary role in the halls of power. Canada lags behind Angola, […]
David Cameron has been named a Fellow of the Forum of Federations
October 7, 2010
David Cameron, the chair of the Forum of Federations’ program committee, has been named a Fellow of the organization. The honour, which was awarded by the Forum’s board at its semi-annual meeting on Sept. 30, is the organization’s highest honour. It has gone to individuals who have played a significant role in the founding and […]
Emanuel Adler granted the title of Honorary Professor at Danish university
October 1, 2010
The University of Copenhagen recently announced that they had granted Emanuel Adler the title of Honorary Professor in Political Science at the Department of Political Science, for a five-year term. Congratulations to Professor Adler on this appointment.
Janice Stein featured on the cover of U of T Magazine
September 28, 2010
The U of T Magazine selected Janice Stein and the Munk School of Global Affairs for the cover story of its Autumn 2010 issue. Professor Stein is interviewed about Peter Munk’s $35 million donation, and her plans to transform the school into a world leader in the field of Global Affairs. The feature story is […]
Sujit Choudhry, winner of Trudeau Foundation Fellowship, is profiled in the Globe and Mail
September 28, 2010
Professor Sujit Choudhry, a law professor at the University of Toronto, has been awarded a $225,000 Trudeau Foundation Fellowship. The prize recognizes the work he’s done in post-conflict constitutional law around the world. In Canada, however, Mr. Choudhry is better known for being somewhat of a thorn in the side of government, scoring repeated courtroom […]
Sylvia Bashevkin sees setbacks for women’s rights under the Conservative government
September 22, 2010
Speaking in 1987, Margaret Thatcher offered the following governance tip to her fellow leaders: “To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.” Last spring, Stephen Harper, unrolling his G-8 maternal health proposal, heeded her advice. The initiative would save “the lives of […]
Two faculty members placed on first annual "Zoomer list"
September 17, 2010
Dr Ron Deibert and Dr James Orbinski named two of Canada’s Top 45 Over 45 by Zoomer Magazine. The article, which is not available online, is part of Zoomer’s September 20th issue.
James Orbinski named as a Transformational Canadian by the Globe and Mail
September 17, 2010
The Globe and Mail’s list of 25 Transformational Canadians includes Dr James Orbinski, who is an associate professor of medicine, teaches in the Department of Political Science and is a fellow at the Munk School for Global Affairs. His profile is available here at globeandmail.com.
Janice Stein comments that critical thinking is crucial, but no panacea
September 7, 2010
The great truth of democracy, at least when it’s working well, isn’t about the levels of turnout at the polling stations or the noise from the opposition benches when someone who calls himself the leader gets carried away with his own sense of power. What’s much more fundamental to the 2,500-year-old experiment of people trying […]