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Friday, June 6, 2025
Congratulations to Kimberlee Nesbitt on her recent PhD proposal defense! Dissertation Title: "“Fix [your] hearts or die!”: The ethics of care and the question of reproductive security in Ukraine." “Since Russia’s invasion in 2014, the international security arena has struggled to account for the intimate, embodied consequences of war,... More
Friday, May 30, 2025
Congratulations to Chelsea Pope on recently defending her PhD thesis proposal! Her project is titled "A Feminist International Relations Approach to the Destruction of Infrastructure in Precision Targeting Missions: The Canadian Armed Forces and The United States Military in Afghanistan". "My research investigates the gendered impacts of... More
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Deo Mwapinga, a recent PhD graduate from the Department of Political Science, was installed recently as the Secretary General of the Forum of Parliaments of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region of Africa. This intergovernmental body is comprised of parliaments across the Great Lakes Region with a mandate to advance a shared... More
Friday, April 11, 2025
We are pleased to announce that PhD student Izac Mason is the well-deserved the winner of the 2024-25 Department of Political Science Outstanding TA award! Congratulations Izak! view Izak's bio ... More
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Research topic: An exploration of federal bureaucratic performance in Canada 2000-2024 Rohit’s research examines the efforts of Canada’s federal public administration to fulfill the policy goals set by elected governments over the past 25 years. His dissertation seeks to develop a framework for understanding the effectiveness of public sector... More
Monday, March 31, 2025
Congrats to Elsa Piersig on her recent PhD dissertation defence. Her thesis is titled Confidence Game: How the Rules of the Confidence Relationship Impact Accountability and Executive-Legislative Relations in Parliamentary Democracies and her supervisor was Jonathan Malloy. We would also like to congratulate Elsa on her appointment as... More
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Working title: “Feminist” Canada and the Global Anti-Rights Movement: How NGOs are Navigating Changing Political Landscapes. My research examines how Canadian civil society organizations focused on gender equality navigate shifting political realities—especially the tension between Canada’s feminist-oriented foreign aid commitments and the... More
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
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 the Brazilian economic structure over the country’s political framework, exploring the interaction between class interests, ideologies, policies and the international system. He is supervised by... More
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
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