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Thursday, December 15, 2022
James Milner has been awarded €145,800 from the Gerda Henkel Foundation to support a comparative study on the politics and process of refugee leadership in the global South, with a specific focus on Latin America and East Africa. This research is a collaboration between R-SEAT (Refugees Seeking Equal Access at the Table) and LERRN... More
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
New book out by Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Ethel Tungohan and Christina Gabriel: Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century Although Canada is known internationally as a leader among industrialized countries for inclusive practices towards immigrants and refugees, the twenty-first century has witnessed a rise in the... More
Sunday, November 20, 2022
The latest title from Waller R. Newell examines how the theories of Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche and Heidegger transformed political thought, feeding catastrophic revolution, tyranny and genocide. Learn more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNikM3mtjcs ... 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
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
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Chandler, Andrea. 2022. “Democratization, Authoritarianism, and Gender in Russia.” In Katalin Fábián, Janet Elise Johnson, and Mara Lazda, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 366-375. Goode, J. Paul, David R. Stroup, and Elizaveta Gaufman. 2022. “Everyday... More
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
SOPHIE MARCOTTE CHÉNARD Devant l’histoire en crise: Raymond Aron et Leo Strauss Devant l'histoire en crise-communiqué What can we learn from history? Is it true that historical reflection inhibits our ability to judge or to act? Or is history just a bric-à-brac assortment of facts and alibis? What relationship can political philosophy have... More
Monday, January 17, 2022
Associate Professor of Political Science James Milner is a historic, prolific academic and producer of scholarship. With seven books and countless appearances in journals, at conferences, and in the media, Professor Milner is a globally recognized voice in refugee scholarship and global justice. He is also a consultant and policy advisor to some... More
Friday, December 10, 2021
Want to find out more about how our leading specialists contributed to the last federal election? Research matters! Find out how polisci faculty research and scholarship helped voters make informed voting decisions. Here are a few examples. Scott Bennett, Associate Professor of Political Science, provided commentary for a CPAC documentary on the... More
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
We are pleased to announce two Political Science faculty members have been awarded Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grants for 2021. These grants support research in its early stages, enabling “the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches... More
Thursday, July 22, 2021
William Walters talks about his new publication "State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary" (Routledge, 2021) In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary (Routledge, 2021), William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central place in critical security studies and elevated to become a core... More
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