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Tuesday, July 16, 2024
New publication by PhD candidate Alex Rudolph "Digital Transformation and Pan-Domain: The CAF’s Quiet Revolution in Military Affairs" The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is currently undergoing a significant digital transformation, surpassing even NORAD modernization in scope and v. These efforts align with developing the CAF's ability to conduct... More
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Congratulations to PhD candidate Hailey-Ann Walker for winning the 2024 CPSA 3 Minute Thesis Competition! About Hailey-Ann's research: "In the last two decades, genealogy has been transformed from the niche pursuit of family-tree hobbyists into a multi-billion-dollar international industry. Ancestry.com dominates this industry. With the help of... More
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Congrats to Thomas Afferi on the successful defence of his MA thesis, entitled "The Persistent Involvement of Chinese Migrants in Small-Scale Mining in Rural Ghana: Role of the “Men” and the “Boys”" “In the last two decades, rural Ghana has seen a significant influx of Chinese migrants, primarily engaged in illegal small-scale mining... More
Friday, May 17, 2024
Congratulations to PhD student Kim Nesbitt who has been awarded the Department of Political Science Award for TA Excellence. Thank you Kim, for your dedication, ability to foster a supportive and engaging environment, and for talented teaching! ... More
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Congratulations to Megan Hicks on her successful MA thesis defence! Her thesis is entitled: “Bio-graphing Secrecy Subjects: The Case of The Quiet Canadian". "In my MA thesis, I examine how biography and biography production is an important site for secrecy research by following the development of the biography, The Quiet Canadian, about Sir... More
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Congratulations to Political Science PhD Candidate Laura Primeau, winner of the The Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) 2023 Graduate Essay Prize. Her paper is "Making Law, Making Worlds: Ontological Openings through Jurisgenesis in the Case of the Mayan Train in Mexico". In this paper, Laura Primeau traces how... More
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Congratulations to James Patriquin on the successful defence of his PhD thesis, entitled "The Technologies of Global Governance: Money, Finance, and Power in the Era of Digital Currency”. James will be graduating with collaborative PhD in Political Economy and his research has been nominated for a Senate Medal. His supervisor was Randall... More
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
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