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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
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
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