Political Science
The program covers the following subjects:
- indigenous politics, with indigenous faculty members in two different subfields
- critical political theory and identity politics
- democratic theory and practise
- political behaviour, parties and elections
- comparative public policy and institutions
- migration, social diversity, and identity
- environmental politics
- international norms, institutions and goverance, and human security.
Explore our Programs in Political Science
Faculty Members in Political Science
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Afsahi, Afsoun | Democratic theory and practice, Gender in politics, Challenges, opportunities, and best methods of inclusion, Representation of marginalized communities in democratic decision-making processes |
| Arneil, Barbara | Identity politics, history of political thought |
| Baier, Gerald | Canadian politics, federalism, constitutional law, courts, federal-provincial relations, Constitution, federalism and public law in Canada |
| Baum, Bruce | Political Culture, Society and Ideology; critical social theory; feminist theory; critical hermeneutics; issues of cross-cultural interpretation; American political thought and cultural politics; political theories of Mill and Marx; philosophy of political inquiry; liberal and democratic theory |
| Bloemraad, Irene | consequences of migration on politics and understandings of membershi; immigrants become incorporated into political communities; intersection of migration studies and political sociology |
| Borwein, Sophie | intersection of political economy, political behaviour, and public policy |
| Byers, Michael | International relations; Public international law (except international trade law); international law; international relations; Outer Space; Arctic; Law of the Sea; Laws of War; International Human Rights; International Environmental Law |
| Cameron, Maxwell | Political science; Political Regimes (Democracy, Monarchy, Federalism, Parliamentarism, etc.); Social Organization and Political Systems; Comparative Politics; Democratization; Latin America; Practical wisdom |
| Chowdhury, Arjun | Failed states, intervention, civil war, autocrats, revolution. |
| Coleman, Katharina Pichler | International organizations, international relations, international security/peace operations, interntional rules, noms and legitimacy, sun-Saharan Africa |
| Coulthard, Glen | First Nations politics – national; political theory |
| Cutler, Frederick | Social movements and democracy; public opinion; Political Methodology; Canadian Politics; Elections; Electoral Systems; Federalism; Academic Publishing Systems |
| Dauvergne, Peter | Social sciences; international relations; global environmental politics; sustainability governance; global South; Developing countries; transnational corporations; technology; consumption; Plastic Pollution; social movements; environmentalism; activism; deforestation |
| Doberstein, Carey | Political science and policy administration; Agencies and arms-length bodies in Canada; Public servant behavior in Canada; How citizens engage with government as part of local consultations and public engagement; Homelessness (politics, governance, policy); Local government or governance |
| Ellermann, Antje | Political science; Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges; Migratory Flows; Public Policies; Identity and Transnationality; Role of Governments and Institutions; Comparative Public Policy; Migration and Citizenship |
| Givens, Terri Elizabeth | |
| Harrison, Kathryn | Canadian politics, environmental politics, environmental policy, climate change, global warming, climate change policy, Canadian public policy |
| Hopkins, Vincent | Political science; Democratic theory and practice; Federalism and Local Politics; Migration Policy and Politics; Public Management; public opinion |
| Huebner, Kurt | European integration; euro and global currency regimes; international trade and fdi; sustainability and innovation policies; global macroeconomics;European politics, Money and currency regimes, politics and economics of European integration as well as on contradictions and complementarities of sustainability and international competitiveness |
| Hummel, Calla | Why and how communities with little political power organize and negotiate with their governments, Civil society, LGBTQ+ policy, Labor politics, Health policy, Latin American politics |
| Jacobs, Alan Michael | Political science; Social Organization and Political Systems; economic inequality; Political economy; public opinion; Public Policy; Research Methodology |
| Janara, Laura | Language and symbolism especially in gendered and familial thinking, politcal theory |
| Jeong, Gyung-Ho | Political science; Social Organization and Political Systems; Congress; Foreign Policy; Immigration Policy; Legislative Politics; Public Choice; Trade Policy; US politics |
| Jurkevics, Anna | critical theory, democratic theory, and the history of German political thought |
| Kam, Christopher | Nature and evolution of parliamentary democracy, historical development of institutions |
| la Selva, Samuel | Political theory, legal philosophy |
| Li, Xiaojun | international and comparative political economy with a focus on China; Does Conditionality Still Work? China |
| Lightfoot, Sheryl | Indigenous policy and policy administration; Indigenous politics; global and comparative Indigenous politics; international relations; Human Rights; non-state actors |
| Ostwald, Kai | comparative politics; ethnic politics, public policy, and the politics of development |
| Price, Richard | Political science; International Cooperation; Ethics and World Politics; Global Norms; international relations; International Relations Theory; Moral Psychology |
| Quirk, Paul | United States Politics, US Politics, American Politics, Congress, Presidency, US elections, US politics |
| Sultan, Nazmul | Political science; history of political thought; empire and anticolonial thought; popular sovereignty; modern conceptions of the global |
| Sundstrom, Lisa | nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), global activism, human rights, Democratization, authoritarianism, civil society, Russian/ post-Communist politics, Western aid, and NGOs in global politics |
| Tiberghien, Yves | Political science; global politics |
| Weaver, Michael | Politics of violence; Ethnic politics and media; Causes and consequences of ethnic violence; Lynching; Legitimacy of state and non-state violence |
| Wright, Matthew | Political science; American politics; Comparitive politics; immigration; Immigration Policy; migration; National identity; Political behaviour; Political psychology; public opinion |
