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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Erin Tolley (Political Science) and co-applicant Nana aba Duncan (Journalism) recently received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connection Grant. Connection grants promote events and outreach activities. Their project is "Black Canadians in Politics: Engaging New Audiences Through an Audio and Digital Archive". view bio... More
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Christina Gabriel has been awarded a Research Achievement award for her project "The Care Crisis and International Student Mobility". This project focuses on how immigration policy is deployed to address health worker shortages. Specifically, it examines how international nursing students negotiate the intersection between the terms of their entry... More
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Walking the Gendered Tightrope: Theresa May and Nancy Pelosi as Legislative Leaders By Melissa Haussman & Karen M Kedrowski This book examines how women in higher office must balance feminine stereotypes with exercising their power. "Walking the Gendered Tightrope analyzes the gendered expectations for women in high offices through the... More
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Congratulations to Emeritus Chancellor's Professor Jill Vickers, who was recently awarded Publius: The Journal of Federalism Distinguished Scholar Award for 2023. Supported by the Center for the Study of Federalism, this biennial award is given to living, recognized scholars whose publications continue to make significant and major contributions... More
Thursday, August 24, 2023
Achim Hurrelmann is one of the editors of a new textbook on European Union politics: Amy Verdun, Achim Hurrelmann and Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly (eds.), European Union Governance and Policy-Making: A Canadian Perspective, 2nd edition (University of Toronto Press, 2023). The textbook is complemented by the EU Governance Videos – a video library... More
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Cati Coe has been awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant to support an international research workshop entitled “What is Work? Rethinking the Formalisation of Domestic Work as the Pathway to Dignity”. The workshop, scheduled for fall 2023, will discuss whether the ILO's 2011 convention on domestic work speaks to domestic workers' aims, experiences,... More
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
The Paradox of Parliament provides a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of Parliament in order to explain the paradoxical expectations placed on the institution. The book argues that Parliament labours under two different "logics" of its purpose and primary role: one based on governance and decision-making and one based on representation and... More
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Cati Coe's book Changes in Care: Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa (Rutgers UP 2021) has been awarded the 2022 Toyin Falola Africa Book Award. The prize is awarded by the Association of Global South Studies for “the best book on Africa published during the preceding year”. Congratulations Cati! ... More
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Congratulations to Erin Tolley, recipient of a Carleton University Research Achievement Award (RAA), for her project on “Black Canadians in Electoral Politics”. "There are nearly 1.5 million Black Canadians in Canada, but we know very little about their political presence because research tends to rely on aggregate categories like “visible... More
Thursday, March 23, 2023
We are pleased to announce that Mira Sucharov has been awarded a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant for her research project (with Omar M. Dajani) “Public Persuasion on Palestinian Refugee Return: A Microhistory of a Vacant Lot in Jaffa”. Along with Omar M. Dajani, Mira Sucharov is developing a narrative podcast entitled "The Vacant Lot."... More
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
To ward off the worst impacts of climate change, Canada has committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. That means in less than three decades the amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) being released into the atmosphere from all sources of emissions — buildings, industry, transportation and so forth — must be no greater than... More
American Scholars are invited to apply for the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in North American Politics in the Dept of Political Science at Carleton University. The competition is now open for the 2024-25 academic year. Deadline September 15, 2023 Apply ... More
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