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Thursday, March 21, 2024
6th Annual Political Science Graduate Students’ Association Conference April 26 2024 A602 Loeb Building, Carleton University CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for abstracts: April 10 2024 Crises and Canada: Looking for Solutions in a Troubled World The international community has been rocked by a series of crises in the past few years: the war in... More
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Congratulations to Will Little on the successful defence of his PhD thesis, entitled Reason, Hierarchy, and Political Stability in the English Enlightenment. His Supervisor was Marc Hanvelt. Interpretations of Enlightenment political thought often view the concept of reason as a subversive tool that was deployed in the seventeenth and eighteenth... More
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
PhD Candidate James Patriquin and Professor Randall Germain recently attended a workshop in Tutzing Germany on ‘The Politics of Global Finance: actors, structures, ratings’. This was a workshop in honour of the late Timothy J. Sinclair, a leading scholar on credit rating agencies. James Patriquin presented a paper titled ‘The Digital... More
Thursday, November 30, 2023
"My research seeks to understand how issues of disability and health have been addressed in the development of global refugee resettlement policy, from 1951 to present. I am examining archival documents from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) archives and interviewing people who have been involved in resettlement policymaking. I will use... More
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
The Bell Chair in Canadian Parliamentary Democracy at Carleton University is pleased to announce the return of its Canadian Politics Graduate Student Conference. This event, held previously in 2011, 2015, and 2019, is an opportunity for advanced MA and PhD students to present their research on Canadian politics. Many leading scholars and... More
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Congratulations to Madison Pearson who was selected for a 2023 SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Masters’. This SSHRC scholarship will enable Madison to continue her excellent research while she studies political science at Carleton. About Madison's research: 58% of women in Canada have been victims of violence online, and research suggests... More
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Congrats to Vanessa Hodge on being awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship! This SSHRC fellowship will enable Vanessa to continue her excellent research while she studies political science at Carleton. About Vanessa's research: Vanessa’s doctoral research examines the relationship between official language policy in Canada and the barriers... More
Congratulations to Taylor Green on his PhD thesis defense! His thesis is entitled "Technological Modernity: A Study of Hegel and Heidegger on the Mastery of Nature". Taylor’s dissertation examines Hegel and Heidegger on their relationship to technology and its predecessor, the early modern mastery of nature project. The goal of this study is to... More
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Congrats to CorinTentchoff on his successful PhD proposal defense. "I am studying the changing and contested concept of electoral interference - ideas, rather than its practice. Starting from the infamous intervention in the 2016 US election, I'm tracking how the boundaries of what counts as illegitimate electoral interference have developed, with... More
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Congratulations to Megan Hicks who was selected for a 2023 SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Masters’. This SSHRC scholarship will enable Megan to continue her excellent research while she studies political science at Carleton. About Megan's research: "‘Intrepid’ or the ‘quiet Canadian’ are titles given to Sir William Stephenson, the... More
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Congratulations to Hailey Walker who was selected for a 2023 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. This SSHRC fellowship will enable Hailey to continue her excellent research while she studies political science at Carleton. About Hailey's research: "The advent of genetic testing and ancestry services has transformed personal and familial genealogy from the... More
Friday, September 15, 2023
Congrats to Bertug Yoruk on his recent MA thesis defence. His thesis is entitled "Another 'American Exception'? American Order-Building and a Schmittian Analysis of U.S. Foreign Policy vis-à-vis China in the post-Cold War Era and Beyond", and his supervisor was Sophie Marcotte Chénard. "My thesis project aims to develop a Schmittian analytical... More
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