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Thursday, October 3, 2024
Congratulations to Kiernan McClelland on successfully defending his PhD dissertation titled Third Place in the Space Race: Securitizing Rhetoric, the Logic of Threat, and the Securitization of the Canadian Civil Space Program. Kiernan McClelland completed his doctoral studies at the Department of Political Science at Carleton University under the... More
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Congratulations to Professor William Cross on being awarded the Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award. The Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the American Political Science Association Section for Canadian Politics, annually recognizes a scholar who has made significant contributions through their career to the... More
"To stay relevant as the geopolitical landscape shifts, Canada must respect Africa’s priorities, build on shared interests and avoid past pitfalls." New article by Isaac Odoom: Two pivotal events in September have highlighted the shifting dynamics in Africa’s external partnerships. First, Canada held consultations on a new approach to its... More
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Congratulations to Deo Mwapinga on successfully defending his PhD dissertation titled The Politics of Citizenship as a Durable Solution for Refugees in Tanzania: A Comparative Case Study of Naturalization of the Rwandese Refugees (1980-1995) and Burundian Refugees (2008-2023). Deo Mwapinga completed his doctoral study at the Department of... More
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Isaac Odoom has been awarded a Carleton University 2024-25 Research Development Grant for his project China’s Digital Silk Road and Geopolitics in Ghana’s Digital Frontier. This project investigates the impact of Chinese digital investments in Ghana within the context of intensifying geopolitical competition involving the US and EU. As Africa... More
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Congratulations to Sreemoyee Majumder on her successful thesis proposal defence! "My proposed doctoral research titled Uncovering Women’s Agency Navigating India’s Legally Plural System as a Domestic Violence Survivor investigates the interplay between legal pluralism, domestic violence, and women's agency in postcolonial India. Following... More
Congratulations to Lindsay Robinson on successfully defending her thesis. Her dissertation is entitled "Empowering Teenage Girls to Save the Planet? Idealized Girlhood, Green Girl Power, and the ‘Girling of Climate Change’". Her research has been nominated for a Senate Medal. "My dissertation interrogates the recent visibility of teenage girls... More
Monday, August 19, 2024
Gopika Solanki has been awarded a Carleton University 2024-25 Research Development Grant for her project Negotiating Difference in Relational Spaces: Ethnicity, Gender, and Interreligious Marriage in India. Multi-ethnic and multi-religious postcolonial societies witness ongoing contestations over the regulation of inter-religious love and... More
Sunday, August 18, 2024
Cati Coe has been awarded a Carleton University 2024-25 Research Development Grant for her research project "Transnational Social Protection and the Care of Aging Migrants". Cati Coe is the Canada Research Chair in Migration and Care and Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. About the project: Despite the general success of the... More
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
William Janzen PhD in Political Science 1981 MA in International Affairs 1970 "For over 30 years, William Janzen served as director of the Ottawa Office of the Mennonite Central Committee Canada. He has influenced government policy development and made contributions to refugee resettlement, citizenship, development aid and peace building. He was... More
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Erin Tolley was a guest on the recent podcast episode "Myth: Women don't make good political leaders," where she talked about her research which counters this myth. Episode Details: "In Canada, only 30% of Members of Parliament are women, and only 16% belong to a racial minority group, well below their 26% representation in... More
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
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