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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
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Erin Tolley has been awarded a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant for her project “Black Canadians' Participation and Inclusion in Electoral Politics.” Working in collaboration with Operation Black Vote Canada, this Partnership Engage project will create an archive highlighting the experiences and contributions of Black Canadians who have run for... More
Monday, June 6, 2022
Andrea Chandler has been awarded a 2022 SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant for her project "Alleviating Loneliness, Encouraging Friendship: The Role That Political Society Can Play." The focus of Prof. Chandler’s project will be to consider whether political society (governments and political leaders) can influence the formation of friendships and... More
Monday, May 30, 2022
We are proud to announce Achim Hurrelmann and Aaron Ettinger have been nominated for the 2021-2022 Favourite Faculty member by residence students. ... More
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Congratulations to Victoria Tait on the successful defence of her PhD thesis, entitled "Backtalk: Implementing United National Security Council Resolution 1325 in the Canadian Armed Forces." Victoria’s dissertation examined the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in the... More
Monday, May 9, 2022
Congratulations to Ethan Gao on his recent successful PhD dissertation defence. His thesis is entitled "The dialectic of logos and eros: Plato’s display of rhetoric in the Phaedrus and the Symposium." Ethan's dissertation offers an interpretation of Plato's philosophical writing that relies on the discussion of speech that is displayed in the... More
The C.V. Hotson Memorial Scholarship is presented annually to a Carleton undergraduate student who has maintained a high degree of academic achievement and has indicated an interest in the University by broad participation in extra-curricular affairs of a constructive nature pertaining to the University, the Students’ Association and the... More
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
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