{"id":31057,"date":"2021-09-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=31057"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:36:02","slug":"alum-heather-macrae","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/alum-heather-macrae\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather MacRae"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"601\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Heather.MacRae_alumbio_2021.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Heather MacRae\" class=\"wp-image-31060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Heather.MacRae_alumbio_2021.jpg 601w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Heather.MacRae_alumbio_2021-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Heather.MacRae_alumbio_2021-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Heather.MacRae_alumbio_2021-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Heather.MacRae_alumbio_2021-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Heather.MacRae_alumbio_2021-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"associate-professor-department-of-politics-york-university\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Associate Professor, Department of Politics, York University<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MA Political Science, 1998 &amp; PhD Political Science, 2005<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;After graduating from Carleton, I was lucky enough to take up a one year contract position in comparative politics (also in Carleton\u2019s department of Political Science), and shortly after that I accepted a tenure track position at York University. I have focused my research on the European Union and gender politics. From 2014-2016 I held a Jean Monnet Chair as part of the EU\u2019s Erasmus+ programme, and I currently hold a SSHRC Insight grant for a project entitled \u201cThe (In) Visibility of gender in the European Union\u201d which looks at the ways in which gender initiatives are sidelined during times of perceived crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I often tell incoming MA students that grad school was the place where I learned how to think about the world and figure out what place I wanted to occupy within it\u2026but more than that, it was the place where I met the best people and made longest lasting friendships. As those friends are now scattered across the globe, what we still share is our years at Carleton.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Heather","cu_people_last_name":"MacRae","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[54,99],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-31057","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni","cu_people_type-phd"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/31057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/31057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31064,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/31057\/revisions\/31064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=31057"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=31057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}