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Wednesday, May 4, 2022
"As part of Global Affairs Canada's (GAC) International Youth Internship Program (IYIP), I’m overjoyed to have been selected by the College of the Rockies for a 6-month internship in Kitale, Kenya. Beginning in June, I’ll be assuming the role of Gender Equality Officer at Kitale National Polytechnique (KNP) while supporting the inclusion,... More
Monday, May 2, 2022
New story by PhD candidate Taylor Green, "Reflections on Maus through a Pandemic," published in the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics annual newsletter Grawlix. Taylor bridges the connection between the graphic novel and political philosophy. Thinking about comics in a scholarly way is especially not easy when we face a global pandemic.... More
Since the launch of the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) in 2018, 12 Carleton students have benefited from a special arrangement with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to undertake an internship within its Ottawa office. Five of these students - including PhD students Luiz Leomil and Rachel McNally, and MA student Danica... More
Friday, April 15, 2022
Congratulations to Craig Mutter, winner of the Department of Political Science Outstanding TA Award for 2021-22. Craig is just completing year one of our Master's program. His principle area of interest is Canadian politics ... More
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Get connected! Are you a polisci alumni or student? Join our new LinkedIn group, for polisci faculty, alumni, staff, and students. This group is It is designed as a forum for for networking and career opportunities, to showcase the professional success of our alumni to current students, and also as an opportunity to link... More
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
PhD student Hayley Rose Malouin was recently a guest on a film podcast discussing Park Chan-Wook's film The Handmaiden. The discussion focuses on gender and sexuality politics and colonialism in the film. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7mC4TQSUW4yGqz9JJpZgsb?si=mB_LwBxRTkOQ5UPssQqIFA&utm_source=copy-link ... More
Monday, February 14, 2022
Congrats to Laura Primeau on the recent defence of her thesis proposal. Laura's doctoral dissertation, "Mobilizing the Law: Indigenous Resistance to the Mayan Train in the South of Mexico," is supervised by Prof. Cristina Rojas and Prof. Laura Macdonald and examines the role of human rights in indigenous opposition to the Mayan Train project... More
Monday, January 24, 2022
Congratulations to Blake Barkely on his recent successful PhD dissertation defence. His thesis is entitled “Revisiting the Politics of Asylum in Africa: Explaining Kenya’s Sub-National Policy Variation” and his supervisor is James Milner. “My PhD research focused on addressing how the politics of asylum in Africa have changed in recent... More
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
MA student Matt Beard recently published an article on The Importance of Academic Impartiality, in Quillette. Matt's research interests include the history of political thought, artificial intelligence, and education. In November 1933, as rector of Freiburg University, Martin Heidegger published a letter urging students to vote “yes”... More
Thursday, January 13, 2022
In this latest release from the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, PhD Candidate Alexander Rudolph explains the recent Log4j vulnerability and examines its implications for both government and the private sector. On December 10, 2021, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) issued a security advisory regarding a critical vulnerability and... More
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Congratulations to Robin Varma for successfully defending his doctoral dissertation, Ruling Bodies: On Coercion in the Statecraft of Plato (Nov. 2021). His work highlights a problem in the way we understand coercion in modern politics, and offers a framework and context for thinking about this. It will be released in hardcover print by Lexington... More
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
PhD Student Cassandra Szabo's new publication is based on research in southern India in which she collected primary data on sand mining and its impacts in a small rural village. Szabo, C., & Mahabaleshwar, H. (2021). Environmental Justice and Participation for communities in Southern India: Sand Mining in Udupi district, Karnataka. In Diduck,... More
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