Archives: Graduate Student News

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Congratulations to Corin Tentchoff on his PhD proposal defense

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

Congrats to Megan Hicks on being awarded a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Masters’

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

Congrats to Hailey Walker on being awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship

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 successful MA thesis defence

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

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Congratulations to Louise Cockram on the successful defence of her PhD dissertation

Congrats to Louise Cockram! Her thesis is entitled A Process, not just an Event: MP Orientation and Representational Styles and Focus in Canada and the UK. "My dissertation research looks at the orientation of newly elected MPs in Canada and the UK. Similar to non-political careers, MPs go through an orientation process when they... More

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Congrats team Polisci!

Congrats to the Polisci grad students softball team, who won the 2023 Carleton GSA softball league championship, defeating NPSIA1 in a hard-fought final. The team name will be engraved on the Mike's Place Broken Bat Trophy. Great job, team... More

Monday, August 14, 2023

Liam O’Brien talks about his experiences in Lucerne, Switzerland as part of the Dual MA Pathway

"My time studying in Luzern, Switzerland, through the Dual MA Program has been an extraordinary and transformative experience. This unique opportunity allowed me to immerse myself in a new academic and cultural environment, opening my mind to new perspectives and possibilities. At the University of Lucerne, I encountered an academic framework that... More

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Trent Temagami Colloquium Call for Graduate Student Presentations: “Living Relationships: Indigenous Rights, Reconciliation, and the Land”

The 51st Annual Trent Temagami Colloquium September 21 to 24, 2023 Call for Graduate Student Presentations: 2023 Colloquium Theme: “Living Relationships: Indigenous Rights, Reconciliation, and the Land” The Trent Temagami Colloquium is an interdisciplinary academic conference and workshop about socio-ecological relationships between people and... More

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Congrats to Amanda Shankland on the successful defence of her PhD dissertation

Amanda's thesis, entitled Cultivating Community: A Discursive Study of Environmental Water Policy in Farming Communities in the Murray-Darling Basin, supervised by Dr. Peter Andrée, examines the politics of water management in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Shankland uses a discursive analysis to demonstrate... More

Thursday, June 1, 2023

Congratulations to Wenjing Gao on the successful defence of her PhD thesis!

Wenjing's thesis, "Encountering the BRI: India’s Pride and Prejudice?", supervised by Jeremy Paltiel, examines the complex dynamics between India and China within the context of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Although China's BRI offers a significant opportunity for accelerating development through infrastructure projects, India has... More

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Emily Allwood, Political Science, Dean’s Honour List 2021-2022

Congratulations Emily! “Being recognized on the Dean’s Honour List is a huge honour that I didn’t plan for or expect but I seem to have achieved. I think the secret to my success at Carleton has been the faculty and all of the supports that are available to students. It has been a wonderful... More

Friday, May 12, 2023

Doug Fergusson: Political Science Outstanding TA Award Winner

We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2022-23 Department of Political Science Outstanding TA award: Doug Fergusson. One nominator said, "I never thought that the History of Political Thought I would be my favourite discussion group...." And that "Doug truly fostered not only an interest in the subject matter, but a deeper... More

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