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Dean of Arts, McGill University<\/strong>
Master of Arts, International Affairs (\u201986)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antonia Maioni began university as an undergraduate student in political science at the French-language Universit\u00e9 Laval. After Quebec City, Ottawa was a bit of a culture shock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was coming from a very different intellectual and linguistic place than most of the people at NPSIA,\u201d she recalls. \u201cBut it was an incred\u00adibly rich community of students from different cultures, skill sets and aspirations. It changed what I thought I knew about Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only were the students coming from different backgrounds, but the coursework was diverse, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were taught by economists, political scientists, sociologists: there was a great interdisciplinary ethos before it became the \u2018in\u2019 thing,\u201d says Dr. Maioni. \u201cWe learned all of the basic social sciences and a lot of methodology within that interdisciplinary approach, which led to a more robust and revealing understanding of social phenomena.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was here that Dr. Maioni honed her interest in Canada\u2019s role in the world, as well as \u201cwhat makes Canada tick\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was an important policy focus and the faculty understood that it had to be both national and international. Many of the students went on to work for the government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs),\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For her part, she chose a life in academia and the pursuit of a PhD at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I went there, I realized that I was interested not only in think\u00ading about Canada in the global landscape, but also understanding what makes us unique among the countries of the world,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Maioni returned to Canada in 1992, to take up a position at the University of Ottawa, and then returned to her home city of Montreal to join McGill University in 1994. In 2001, she began a decade of service as director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. In 2015, she became Associate Vice-Principal for Research, and in 2016, was named Dean of Arts at McGill University\u2014a job that has offered a few surprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am working with a team on many levels: within the university leadership, with chairs and directors, students and staff. It\u2019s really interesting to be part of a joint effort that is building towards McGill\u2019s third century,\u201d she explains.
She also recently served as President of the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences, which represents 81 scholarly associations and 80 universities and colleges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Federation works on behalf of scholars at universities across Canada, so my time at Carleton helped me navigate the Ottawa political scene,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\u2019s also spent many years as a recognized public commentator for CTV News, The Globe and Mail, and other news outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI see the role of a professor as having a public education function to explain complex phenomena,\u201d she explains. \u201cI\u2019m not just expressing opinions, but bringing what I know as a social scientist to bear in trying to understand politics, election results and policies. These issues have an impact on people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Maioni describes these opportunities as a privilege.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an ongoing conversation that opens up all kinds of different avenues and understandings,\u201d she says. \u201cI bring all of those to my work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":673,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Antonia","cu_people_last_name":"Maioni","cu_people_initials":"AM","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[25],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-153","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Former Dean of Arts, McGill University","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"Dr.","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/153\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}