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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
The Department of Political Science welcomes Dr. Henok Teka as Adjunct Professor. Dr. Henok Teka is a scholar specializing in International Relations and Development Studies, with a keen focus on emerging economies and South-South cooperation. He earned his PhD in International Relations from Ege University, Turkey, where his dissertation examined... More
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
At the June CPSA conference, Sophie Marcotte Chénard was awarded the Prix francophone de l'ACSP 2024 for her book Devant l’histoire en crise. Raymond Aron et Leo Strauss (Québec: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2022). The jury praised her book as a “rigorous and accomplished reflection on the role of historicity and history in... 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
Friday, June 14, 2024
Achim Hurrelmann talks about the European Parliament election this week: What’s behind far right surge in Europe? Right wing ascendance to EU mainstream could impact Canada trade, climate policy EU election: despite uncertainty, major division on trade unlikely, experts say ... More
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Professor Laura Macdonald talks to CBC news. Mexico's election of its first female president could mean a stronger relationship with Canada, as analysts watch how Claudia Sheinbaum approaches civil rights and the possible return of former U.S. president Donald Trump. "I think we'll see a friendly relationship," said Carleton University professor... 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
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Join us in congratulating the 2024 Faculty of Public Affairs Excellence Award winners from the Department of Political Science! Teaching Excellence: The Faculty of Public Affairs Teaching Excellence Award recognizes two full-time faculty members and one contract instructor for consistency in teaching excellence over time and across courses,... More
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