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Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Congratulations to Carmen Rykaart on being awarded a SSHRC Graduate Scholarhsip – Masters’ 2024-25 for her research project " Conceptualizing Indigenous Homelessness to Address Inadequate Homeless Policy Responses". "Much of the previous academic research on homelessness has emphasized the role of individual responsibility, but a recent focal... More
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
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
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
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
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
Friday, October 18, 2024
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
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
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
Thursday, October 10, 2024
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
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Congratulations to Kiernan McClelland on successfully defending his PhD dissertation titled Third Place in the Space Race: Securitizing Rhetoric, the Logic of Threat, and the Securitization of the Canadian Civil Space Program. Kiernan McClelland completed his doctoral studies at the Department of Political Science at Carleton University under the... More
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Congratulations to Deo Mwapinga on successfully defending his PhD dissertation titled The Politics of Citizenship as a Durable Solution for Refugees in Tanzania: A Comparative Case Study of Naturalization of the Rwandese Refugees (1980-1995) and Burundian Refugees (2008-2023). Deo Mwapinga completed his doctoral study at the Department of... More
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Congratulations to Sreemoyee Majumder on her successful thesis proposal defence! "My proposed doctoral research titled Uncovering Women’s Agency Navigating India’s Legally Plural System as a Domestic Violence Survivor investigates the interplay between legal pluralism, domestic violence, and women's agency in postcolonial India. Following... More
Congratulations to Lindsay Robinson on successfully defending her thesis. Her dissertation is entitled "Empowering Teenage Girls to Save the Planet? Idealized Girlhood, Green Girl Power, and the ‘Girling of Climate Change’". Her research has been nominated for a Senate Medal. "My dissertation interrogates the recent visibility of teenage girls... More
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