Archives: Polisci News

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

PSCI 5703 A Ethnographic Research Methods offered Winter 2025 – Register Now!

PSCI 5703 A Ethnographic Research Methods offered Winter 2025 - Register Now! Are you interested in learning qualitative interview, visual, and participant-observational techniques, useful for understanding social and political processes? Ethnographic Research Methods is a hands-on class which will provide structured guidance and practice in these... More

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Beyond Academia: Career Pathways for Graduate Students

Our department recently hosted an insightful panel discussion titled "Beyond Academia: Career Pathways for Graduate Students". The distinguished panel featured Lisa Gunn from Oxfam International, Kathleen Walsh from Compass Rose and Blake Barkley, our department alumnus from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, bringing together... More

Thursday, October 24, 2024

The Department of Political Science welcomes Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Joshua Steckley

The Department of Political Science welcomes Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Joshua Steckley. Joshua completed his PhD in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto. His forthcoming book, The Nightcrawlers: A Story of Worms, Cows, and Cash in the Underground Bait Industry, (UC Press) examines the political ecology of the lucrative bait... More

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Congrats to Yili Zhou on her recent dissertation defence!

Congratulations to Yili Zhou on her recent dissertation defence.  Her thesis is titled Headbanging on the Open Door:  heavy metal music, globalization, and politics in contemporary China and her supervisor is Professor Jeremy Paltiel. My doctoral dissertation focuses on state and society relations in China in the context of globalization... More

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Congrats to Biqi Yan on her dissertation defence!

Congratulations to Biqi Yan on her recent dissertation defence.  Her thesis is titled Facing the Artillery of Free Trade: How Japan and China Responded to US Trade Pressure and her supervisor is Professor Jeremy Paltiel. Biqi's thesis offers a comparative analysis of Japan’s and China’s responses to US trade pressures, concentrating on major... More

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Aaron Ettinger talks about U.S. elections

"With a monumental U.S. election on the horizon, the outcome is sure to reverberate beyond its borders. But why should Canadians take notice? Join Carleton University’s Associate Professor of Political Science, Aaron Ettinger, as he tackles some of the internet’s biggest questions surrounding the upcoming U.S. elections." watch video  ... More

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Carleton professor’s project uplifts refugee voices in research

"Researchers from the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) are looking to make research on refugees more inclusive and equitable. The project partners with civil society organizations in Canada, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon and Tanzania and primarily focuses its research in the Global South, where most of the world’s refugees live. The... More

Friday, October 18, 2024

William Richardson: AUKUS, shifting alliance dynamics, and Canada

New publication by Political Science PhD candidate William Richardson. "AUKUS, shifting alliance dynamics, and Canada" is published by the Royal Canadian Military Institute’s Sitrep journal. read more view bio   "The announcement of Australia’s ambition to acquire nuclear-powered attack submarines under a new partnership with the U.S. and... More

Friday, October 18, 2024

Congratulations to Cassandra Szabo on her recent PhD thesis propsal defence!

Congratulations to Cassandra Szabo on her recent PhD thesis propsal defence! Cassandra's research is a comparative analysis between Canada and the United Kingdom and their respective responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The research specifically focuses on mother's and how governance decisions impacted mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The... More

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Rafael Palma Mungioli awarded SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship

Congrats to Rafael Palma Mungioli who has been awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship for his research project "Neoliberal Nationalism: The Political Economy Of The Far Right's Rise in Brazil". Rafael’s research focuses on the political economy of the rise of the far right in Brazil. His dissertation project aims to understand the effects of... More

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Riana Chaar wins 2024 Pollara Statistical Confidence Award

Congratulations to Riana Chaar, 2024 winner of the Pollara Statistical Confidence Award.  This award is given to those students who produce the best quantitative analysis papers at an advanced stage of their studies and who have been associated with the Department of Political Science through course work or supervision.  Pollara Strategic... More

Thursday, October 10, 2024

Congratulations to William Richardson on his recent thesis proposal defence!

Congratulations to Polisci PhD candidate William Richardson on his recent thesis proposal defence! William’s PhD dissertation will employ three influential theories of international relations to produce an original explanation of why the United States shares many of its most sensitive and costly defence technologies with partners and allies.... More

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