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Wednesday, August 24, 2022
The Department of Political Science is pleased to welcome two new faculty members, Dr. Cati Coe and Dr. Isaac Odoom. Both started at Carleton University on July 1, 2022. They will strengthen the research and teaching expertise of the Department of Political Science on many cutting edge fields, including transnational migration, the politics of... More
Monday, August 22, 2022
Jeff Sahadeo has been awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant for his project “Global Consequences of Displacement from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Space, Place and Pluralism”. Russia’s War in Ukraine has set an entire region in motion. Millions of Ukrainians have fled in the face of violence, moving west within their country or across borders... More
About the Position: Field of Specialization: Indigenous Politics in Canada Academic Unit: Political Science Category of Appointment: Preliminary (Tenure-Track) Rank/Position Title: Assistant Professor or Associate Professor Start Date: January 1, 2023 or July 1, 2023 Closing Date: October 31, 2022 The Department of Political Science invites... More
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
PSCI 2500 Gender and Politics Offered Fall 2022 - Register Now! Tuesdays 11:35 - 13:25 Lindsay Robinson, PhD Candidate This course goes beyond a singular emphasis on (particular white) women’s experiences of sexism, and instead encourages students to explore the many ways in which we can think about, experience, and theorize gender. In so... More
Monday, July 25, 2022
PSCI 4809C Indigenous Political Activism Offered Fall 2022 - Register Now! Wednesdays 14:35 - 17:25 Gabriel Maracle This course will trace the history and context of Indigenous activism in what is now called Canada. This course will be based on a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the long history of Indigenous activism. Beginning in the... More
PSCI 3100 Politics of Development in Africa Offered Fall 2022 - Register Now! Fridays 11:35 - 14:25 Course Instructor: Isaac Odoom “Africa is rising”, “Africa is unstable and poor”, “In order to develop, Africa should become like the West”, “China is colonizing Africa”. Do these broad-stroke generalizations represent the African... More
Offered Fall 2022 - Register Now! PSCI 4809B/5915G Ethnographic Research Methods Wednesdays 8:35 - 11:25 Professor Cati Coe 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... More
Monday, July 4, 2022
“O Canada” echoed through the convocation hall at Carleton University in Ottawa, as Maryam Sahar stood waiting for her moment to cross the stage and officially graduate with a bachelor of arts degree in political science. This was a proud moment for the Afghan-born, former interpreter with the Canadian Armed Forces, and one she... More
Monday, June 13, 2022
New op-ed by Erin Tolley: Recent elections have resulted in more women, racialized and Indigenous people holding political office in Canada. That’s good news, but we’ve got a long way to go. Elected institutions still do not reflect the demographics of the populations they claim to represent. These representational gaps are a clear indicator... More
As a political scientist, Professor Melissa Haussman has been researching women’s reproductive rights in North America for at least twenty years. She grew up in the United States, in a Republican home in Massachusetts, but changed her partisan affiliation in graduate school. She went on to study not only Roe v. Wade, but its... More
new op-ed by Jonathan Malloy: The Liberal Party of Ontario has – to put it lightly – fallen on hard times. In last week’s provincial election, the Ontario Liberal Party once again came in third place, and while its 2018 wipeout was bad enough, a repeat – winning just one more seat than when... More
new op-ed by Laura Macdonald. Autoworkers in Silao assembled some of the most lucrative pick-up trucks sold in North America, yet earned a fraction of the wages paid to workers in the U.S. and Canada—an imbalance that has contributed to a collective lowering of work standards, hurting workers all across the continent. read more... More
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