Volume 1 / Issue 1 Spring 2011 Ron Deibert’s “Arab Spring” PLANNING for our academic future David Cameron “Planning” is a recurrent feature of university life, and a major challenge for chairs and their administrative colleagues. For academic units in the Faculty of Arts and Science (St. George campus), 2009-10 was consumed by a strategic planning exercise that was destined to be especially dif! cult because of the need to confront major de! cits. A lot would depend on the academic performance of each unit, the vision it was able to develop, and evidence of resource pressure. The Department’s submission could quote from a recent external assessment by the Ontario Council of Graduate Egypt, Syria, and other parts of reaches around the globe. It includes Studies, characterizing it not only the “Arab Spring” are much on Ron students and professionals from political as “the preeminent political science Deibert’s mind. On one morning full of science, law, sociology, and computer department in Canada,” but also as news reports of large crowds gathering science. Beyond that are hundreds one that “ranks among the best in the in central Cairo, “we were monitoring; of researchers and monitors, in turn world.” The department’s pitch also we had colleagues looking for signs connected to hundreds more. talked about our faculty’s penchant for of government control, some at great All this has won dizzying media asking “big questions.” This, we argued, personal risk.” attention (including headlines in the positioned us well for confronting new This is Deibert’s world. For years, he N.Y. Times) and prestigious awards. political challenges (and old) across the has written and talked about the use of He was recently named one of the ! ve globe. internet connections to organize citizens, most in" uential IT security thinkers The planning document pointed out and for the sophisticated methods used world-wide, by SC Magazine (aimed how much student interest in politics by governments to control what they at security professionals). He’s been view as threatening activity. He and his included in media lists, either as one continued on page 5 team made headlines around the world of the “best and brightest” (Esquire) with their work pointing to a pattern of or as helping make the world a better cyber-espionage that seemed to be based place (Macleans). He’s received not in China. Since then, they have seen one but two top teaching awards at the other governments curtailing internet U of T. His long run as co-instructor use at crucial times like elections. (with Janice Stein) in the huge ! rst-year NEW The Citizen Lab is the hub of the course in global affairs (POL 108) has BOOKS multi-tentacled Deibert network that made him a legend among thousands of on page 11 continued on page 9

1 ALUMNI profi le NEWS at MISSISSAUGA Mike Layton’s new job Ronnie Beiner Seven years after graduating from Erindale College, Mike Layton was on Toronto’s City Council, representing Trinity-Spadina. He must have been told a hundred times that he had politics in his blood. His great-grandfather and grandfather were cabinet ministers (in Quebec and Ottawa). His father Jack We have seen dramatic changes in leads the federal NDP. Political Science at UTM. We have a That’s not quite where he was new home in what is now called the heading when in 1999 he entered what William G. Davis Building (re-named to was then called Erindale College – now honour Bill Davis’s contribution to the UTM. He was mostly interested in bio- founding of Erindale College). We have chemistry, and took an introduction to a new Principal (Deep Saini) and a new Canadian Politics as a lark. He liked Dean (Amy Mullin). In July 2012, Ed it,  nding the issues being grappled Schatz will become the new chair, taking with more engaging than “breaking in the fall of 2010. As a progressive over from me and from Graham White, into equations.” And in his next year, getting into of ce in the same election who was the UTM department’s  rst a comparative course taught by David that swung council and the mayoralty chair, and is returning as interim chair Wolfe opened up opportunities for away from his priorities, he has found for 2011-12. him to explore environmental policy in it a challenge. “You don’t win all your But most importantly of all for us, depth – “an incredible course.” battles, but in the process you build and most gratifying for me, has been After  nishing his B.A. in 2003, he relationships, learn about new subject the addition of three tremendously went on to an M.E.S. at York University areas, and you have an opportunity to impressive and energetic new collea- specializing in urban planning. After impact people’s lives. You can go home gues. Peter Loewen, who works in that, he worked on the NDP’s 2005-06 thinking, ‘I helped solve a problem.’” political psychology and electoral national election campaign and the Did the academic material he politics, joined us in January 2010, Ontario provincial party’s campaign to encountered back in his undergraduate having completed a Ph.D. from Univer- get marginalized communities more days have any bearing on the world sité de Montréal and postdoctoral engaged in politics. An opportunity of politics he’s now immersed in? fellowships at UBC and the University opened up at Environmental Absolutely. “A lot of what happens of California, San Diego. Todd Hall Defence Canada, where he ended up here in council goes back to the core joined us a year ago with a broad set of coordinating the Green Energy Act principles were learned about in  rst interests in international relations, after Alliance, pressuring and working with and second year. I was taught that you doctoral work at Chicago and postdocs the Ontario government to improve its base ideas and practice on principles, at Princeton and Harvard. This January, environmental practice. even if that means taking unpopular Lee Ann Fujii joined us after completing Layton hadn’t seriously thought stands on issues like taxation. This is her degree and three years of teaching of electoral politics before, but on the basic  rst- and second-year stuff – what at George Washington University. She prompting of friends and supporters he is the role of government, how do you has worked on the politics of genocide, decided to make a run for the inner city balance private and public interests, and has published a penetrating study council seat that he ended up winning what are the priorities of a city?” § of the Rwandan genocide with Cornell University Press ( Killing Neighbors , 2009). The Department’s undergraduate Politics by the numbers enrolments have been growing by

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2 Confronting AIDS in Africa Jenn Donville’s “War Child” Commitments with Antoinette Handley JennJe Donville must have been one Antoinette Handley’s research agenda does not have a particularly distinguished amazing bartender. has always tackled large and challenging history of treating its employees well. Soon after  nishing issues. She is now in the midst of The mining sector is illustrative of a school, a regular exploring responses to AIDS in sub- broader shift in employment needs from customer at a Queen Saharan Africa, bringing her face to the 1970s on, away from unskilled and Street bar asked face with heroism and innovation in short-term labour and toward the more her what she did apart from serving some settings; criminal neglect and mis- skilled and long-term labour. This is drinks, and she started talking about guidedness in others. There are heroes a workforce that needs to be retained her passionate interest in African and villains aplenty, and much that is over a longer term. “Often there is an development. The customer worked confusing and uncertain in the middle. individual, high up, who is seized of the with War Child Canada, and soon The initial ideas for this germinated issue and pushes hard.” afterwards offered her contracts to while she was a graduate student. But The big picture is still dominated help them on HIV-AIDS and gender guidelines. The sparks behind this energy and commitment were lit during a second year course of Richard Sandbrook’s, and especially in Antoinette Handley’s third-year course in Sub-Saharan development. She was also deeply impressed by Stephen Lewis’s tireless work on HIV-AIDS, and his recognition of the need to focus on women. She completed her B.A. in 2004, and a year after that began an M.A. at the London School of Economics. Jenn is now Deputy Director of Handley meeting former Botswana President Mogae – the “AIDS president.” International Programs at War Child Canada. She has managed programs it was during a 2010 sabbatical that she by the most profound inequities, in Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and really dove into this “political economy” particularly where governments have has had a role in other locations of the epidemic, tracking corporate failed to respond, or where state capacity from Afghanistan to Uganda and the response in four very different countries is highly constrained. Mostly it’s skilled Democratic Republic of the Congo. – Kenya and Uganda in East Africa, and and middle-class employees who get These programs provide education for further south Botswana and her native treatment; others don’t. It’s better that people, livelihood training; access to South Africa. the private sector in some settings is justice for those who have been victims Handley does not doubt that business helping some people rather than none. of sexual and gender based violence. leaders have to focus on the bottom line. Still... There’s a large-scale analytical Their Addis Ababa program works with The question is how expansively they story about development in the midst of a child-headed families, building the skills think about self interest. One response social and political crisis of unimaginable of the oldest, providing for expenses for would be narrowly defensive –  ring proportions. There are also speci c two years and ensuring that the other HIV-positive workers, leaving the bulk of examples of real change on the ground children go to school. policy and health-care response to the – forged by institutions, communities, Jenn’s mother has also been state. The other is to acknowledge that and individuals rising to the challenge. passionately interested in the politics the epidemic is having a broad impact on Weaving this together is Handley’s of development. She completed her economic prospects, and to provide help challenge. § degree part-time at U of T when Jenn for all employees and their families. P.S. In January 2011, Handley became was a teenager. Lynn Donville is now a The South African case is particularly Undergraduate Director at the St. George professor and program supervisor for compelling. State response under former campus, taking over from the hard-to-follow international business and marketing President Mbeki was a miserable failure, Linda White, working alongside Liz Jagdeo at Centennial College. “I think my but there are indications of some broad and Wil Kurth in managing one of the largest mother is pretty awesome,” she says. So thinking within a business sector that Political Science programs anywhere. is Jenn Donville.

3 ALUMNI profi le Vivek Krishnamurthy’s journey to Oxford and Washington

Where do you start? Rhodes Scholarship? sprayed aerially drifting over the border Clerking at the Supreme Court of Canada? and affecting rain forest habitat and Helping prepare Bangladesh’s case in a indigenous community life. maritime boundary dispute from his desk The law wasn’t always his focus, but in a Washington, D.C. law of ce? Top in the process of completing his Oxford student throughout his B.A. in Political masters (in 2004), he became more Science and Economics? interested in the  eld. After a one-year In 2010, Vivek Krishnamurthy began stint working on electoral reform for the work at Foley Hoag, whose D.C. of ce has Ontario government, he went to Yale for a carved out a reputation in representing law degree, completed in 2008, and after clients (including governments) before that clerked for Mr. Justice Morris Fish, of international tribunals. It is, as he says, the Supreme Court of Canada. “very neat work.” One case involves a Of his undergraduate experience, border dispute between Bangladesh Vivek says without a second’s hesitation, experience. From the  rst summer after and both Myanmar and India, being “simply superb – I don’t think I could have  rst year, I had opportunities to work on adjudicated by two different tribunals. He had a better experience anywhere else in cutting edge research, with Ron Deibert at is also working on a case being brought by the world.” When he went to Oxford after the early stages of his work; and Stephen Ecuador against Columbia for herbicides completing his joint specialist degree, he Clarkson in analyzing the role of the found he was as well prepared as any of internet in federal election campaigns. 2010 Rhodes Scholarship winner his colleagues. The education that I received compares While at U of T, “I was fortunate to really favourably with Oxbridge and the Erin Fitzgerald Honours B.A. in Politi- develop close relationships with several American ivy leagues.” cal Science and International Relations professors. Yes, it’s more dif cult than it Vivek grew up, as he puts it, “all over was crowned with a Rhodes Scholarship would have been at a smaller university: Canada.” His parents moved around, so in 2010. This is the second Rhodes for you need to take the initiative and go out he was born in Calgary, lived in Montreal a Political Science student in recent and meet faculty members. There is a real and Ottawa, and then moved to Toronto years, Vivek Krishnamurthy winning his effort at U of T to have undergraduate just before starting at U of T. His parents in 2002. We will check in with Erin in courses taught by faculty, with really good are still in Toronto, and he hopes at some time for the next issue of news.politics. teachers in large classes. That makes a point that his career will take him back to huge difference in the quality of student Canada. § Cliff van der Linden’s Vote Compass makes voters think Political Science doctoral candidate Cliff Eady, Joelle Dumouchel and Andrew the young, and how unevenly informa- van der Linden didn’t invent Vote Com- Ahern – all Ph.D. students, and recent tion spreads among prospective voters. pass – used in Europe for years to guide M.A. graduates Adam Senft and Gilleen Among the strengths of this on-line tool potential voters to party positions on is- Witkowski. Prof. Peter Loewen was di- is that it allowed respondents to unlock sues. But he knew an interesting idea a treasure trove of information about when he saw a version of it while doing what each party stood for.  eld work in Amsterdam. He pitched Van der Linden came to our Ph.D. it to major Canadian TV networks, and program in 2006 with a masters in jour- CBC said yes. nalism (Western Ontario) and a B.A. in More than 2 million Canadians took Political Science and Economics (Mc- the survey which gets them to respond rector of analytics. UTSC student Ju- Master). Apart from his doctoral work to questions that tap into a wide array lia Varshavska spent many hours going (on the security implications of Euro- of issues, and then compares their atti- through party platforms, press releases, pean integration - with Emanual Adler tude set with the positions staked out by leader speeches, and media stories. as supervisor), he has played a central each party. Several U of T Political Sci- The team behind this was driven role in re-designing and expanding the entists were involved, among them Jen- in part by knowing how much voting department’s web site. Active citizen in- nifer Hove, Yannick Dufresne, Gregory turnout has declined, especially among deed! §

4 ALUMNI profi le Julie Bristow’s star rises at CBC

Julie Bristow was always interested in programs and rose to responsibility over politics. One of her uncles was Michael investigative journalism programs like Pit eld, for a time the most important The Fifth Estate. “The challenge was to public servant in Ottawa, so she grew up  nd ways of ensuring that tough stories with swirls of conversations about what got done: you have to be good at dealing was happening in Ottawa. It seemed with lawyers, protecting sources – my job natural to concentrate in Political was to make sure that they got the right Science for a B.A. she completed in support.” 1986. More recently, her producer Since then, she has been head of portfolio includes a range that extends current affairs for CBC, and is now from Battle of the Blades to George executive director of a division called Stroumboulopouolos Tonight to “Studio and Unscripted Programming” Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister. – responsible for the development This she does with two girls at home and production of programs that (aged 10 and 12), and running long include talk shows, lifestyle and reality distance (including marathons) with a programming, variety arts and music, friend she  rst met in a U of T politics sports and comedy. class. Soon after starting work for an What about her undergraduate investment company, where she realized years. “I think that experience really how much she liked research, the idea opened up my brain – to reading, to of pursing a career in journalism got talking about people interested in to write effectively, for everything that planted in her head. She started at Global learning, to a kind of thinking that is she does. “You need sophisticated as a researcher on business stories, and critical to success, to handling large communication skills for any job – you before long switched over to CBC and amounts of information, and to writing.” need to be clear in organizing thoughts, worked on Venture – an important early “The most important is the open and you need to write in ways that are not business-related program on TV. mind, being able to tap into different ambiguous: I can’t imagine any senior After that, she had a variety of disciplines, to think expansively.” She job anywhere that doesn’t demand that creative and producing roles for other talks about how critical it is to be able you be a good communicator.” § PLANNING, continued from page 1 had grown from a decade ago, more or accomplishments, supporting our The 2011-12 year will see four searches less doubling enrolments in our major ideas for improving the undergraduate for new positions: quantitative methods; programs (to over 800 by 2009) and our program and expanding our community public policy; federalism and multi- specialists (434). There were (and are) relations activities. And in a time level governance; and the “emergence serious challenges to confront here, when only a very modest number of of new global powers.” In subsequent in addition to those associated with a new faculty appointments were being years we hope for continued support steadily expanding graduate program. approved across the whole Faculty, from the Dean’s Of ce for new faculty Even in these constrained times, we Political Science got several. positions on the St. George campus, envisaged new programs (internships, In 2010-11, the department as a and my colleagues at UTM and UTSC student conferences, terms abroad) to whole conducted  ve searches for new are working to the same end on their enrich the undergraduate experience. academic appointments that had been campuses. Some of these initiatives will be approved prior to this planning round, Next year will be full of challenges facilitated by broadening and deepening two on the St. George campus, two at in managing such large and successful our relationships with political science UTSC, and one at UTM. Three were teaching programs, but we can stand alumni and the community at large. successful. Daniel Lee and Bill Hurst proud for the intellectual range that So how did the Faculty respond? have been appointed to positions at we represent, the teaching standards In June 2010, the Dean’s Strategic UTSC, while the St George Campus we uphold, and the scholarship that we Planning Committee reported back, looks forward to welcoming Vsevolod generate. acknowledging our standing and Gunitskiy in July.

5 1. RUTH MARSHALL 5. LEE ANN FUJII Ass’t Prof. in PS & Dept. for the Study Ass’t Prof., UTM of Religion, St. George campus Interests: Political mass killings and Interests: Religion and political theory; genocide in Africa transnational religions (W. Africa University/Grad school: Reed College, especially); war and violence Haverford College, George Washington Favourite food: Things salty and fried University Best place you’ve visited: Best for what? Guilty pleasure: NCIS Tuesday nights Food – Saint-Père-sous-Vezelay, France. Favourite food: All Beach – Nosy Ve Island, Madagascar. Summer 2011 plans: Fieldwork ROM or AGO: It depends whether I have kids in tow, so the ROM, because 6. WILSON PRICHARD they’re always in tow. Ass’t Prof., St. George campus Summer 2011 Plans: Finishing my deck, Interests: Political economy of writing, keeping my sanity. international development, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa 2. CHRIS COCHRANE Guilty pleasure: Sports news. Ass’t Prof., UTSC Most productive time of day: I do well Interests: Canadian (in comparative before lunch and from the late context) political disagreement and afternoon onwards. During those few party competition hours after lunch, on the other hand, I Born: Saint John, New Brunswick spend a lot of energy digesting. Favourite food: Dates Summer 2011 plans: I will be working One thing people wouldn’t guess: The most on my " rst book in Italy serving as co- stereotypically Canadian thing about Director of a Research Centre at the me is that when I was an undergraduate Institute of Development Studies in 1. 2. 3. I drove a Zamboni on weekends. Brighton, UK looking at the political Summer 2011 plans: I have to sell my economy of taxation and development. family’s house in Alberta, and help With any luck I’ll sneak a vacation in move my wife and two daughters to there as well. Toronto. 7. LUCAN WAY 6. 7. 8. 3. MATTHEW CUTHBERT Ass’t Prof., UTSC Department Assistant, St. George Interests: Weak states and regime campus change – e.g. in Africa and post- Born: Downtown Toronto communist regions Best place you’ve visited: The Necropolis Guilty pleasure: Reading a political of Glasgow biography while eating and having a Most productive time of day: Late at night cold one in the middle of the day. 11. 12. 13. when everyone is already asleep. One thing you can’t live without: Internet Summer 2011 plans : Running an annual news on recent events in the Middle music festival and working too much. East. Political Science, across all Summer 2011 plans: Cape Cod three campuses, have seen 4. CHRISTIAN BREUNIG many new appointments in Ass’t Prof., St. George campus 8. PETER LOEWEN Interests: Comparative public policy Ass’t Prof., UTM faculty and staff complements and political economy in advanced Interests: Canadian elections; public over the last three years. democracies attitudes; political behaviour; Wendy Wong decided to Born: Buchen, Germany experimental design compile a light-hearted set One thing you can’t live without: A University/Grad school: Ruprecht-Karls of thumbnail portraits of her Universitaet Heidelberg, University of motorcycle. Oklahoma, University of Washington Last movie watched: The Cohen fellow newcomers by asking a Guilty pleasure: Fresh air Brothers’ True Grit. Surely, thumbs up. range of questions beyond the Summer 2011 plans: Research trip Guilty pleasure: Wings. And reading usual fare. Here is a sampling abroad Foucault. Summer 2011 plans: Work, and a quick ride to Bolivia.

6 9. MARGARET KOHN about these and related questions Assoc. Prof., UTSC through research on, for example, Interests: Political philosophy – critical political identities in transitioning theory, colonialism, urbanism South Africa, indigeneity in Mexico and University/Grad school: Williams College Canada, and the constitutionalization and Cornell University of rights in developing countries. Her Favourite food: A Really good cheese writing, then, lies at the intersection platter. of contemporary political theory and Guilty pleasure: Fresh air comparative politics. Summer 2011 plans: A cottage in University/Grad school: Tufts, Columbia, NEW(ish) Georgian Bay and family camping. Yale 10. RAUNA KUOKKANEN 14. LOUIS TENTSOS Ass’t Prof. in Pol and Aboriginal Studies Graduate Secretary, St George campus Writing/teaching: Aboriginal politics One thing people wouldn’t guess: I have FACES and law, Indigenous governance a black belt in Tae-Kwon-Do. I was and philosophy, global indigenous actually in ridiculously good shape movements; violence against before I went to university and put on indigenous women. Her current the Freshman 15! research examines indigenous Favourite food: Gyros from the women in the intersection of self- Danforth. And Beef Sashimi from determination, human rights and Simon Sushi. structures of violence. One thing you can’t live without: Probably Born: Finland my acoustic guitar. Summer 2011 plans: I’m going back 4. 5. University background: University of Oulu (Finland) M.A., UBC (M.A. and Ph.D.) to visit the motherland – Greece of course! 11. TODD HALL Ass’t Prof., UTM 15. RYAN HURL Interests: Intern’l relations theory; role of Ass’t Prof., UTSC, limited-term emotions; nationalism; Chinese foreign Interests: U.S. and Canadian policy 9 10. constitutional law; judicial politics; Born: Oregon City Aboriginal and environmental issues Favourite food: Fresh slice of Best place you’ve visited: Florence, Italy, Vollkornbrot with butter, horseradish, but I do not recommend the steak. and Harzer cheese. Favourite food: Chicken vindaloo One thing people wouldn’t guess: Still Guilty pleasure: Loud rock music that working on getting my driver’s license. should only really be enjoyed by much 14. 15. 16. Summer 2011 plans: Not yet planned. younger people. 12. VERA ACHVARINA Summer 2011 plans: Research, writing, Ass’t Prof., St. George campus, limited- teaching my youngest son how to play term appointment basketball. Interests: Human security; mobilization in war (including of children) 16. WENDY WONG Born: Obninsk, Russia (USSR) Ass’t Prof., St. George campus Last movie watched: Black Swan Interests: Transnational advocacy One thing people wouldn’t guess: That I networks; intern’l human rights can speak conversational Mandarin. Most productive time of day: I am a Summer 2011 plans: Writing and family. morning person, and I like watching the sun rise as I type away. 13. COURTNEY JUNG Guilty pleasure: Reading celebrity gossip Professor, St. George campus websites and trolling craigslist for fun Interests: Multiculturalism, democratic " nds. participation and identity formation. Favourite food: Fried chicken Her work engages normative debates Summer 2011 plans: Teaching, writing, and going somewhere tropical! §

7 Three remarkable students who are making a difference Profi les by Chris Cochrane

Aaron Kates Rose does a lot at once. “Looking back,” from the per- Nathan Berman’s story is an spective of completing his  nal year, “I amazing one. When he didn’t graduate don’t feel that I have compromised on from high school, he would have had either my life outside of school or inside dif culty imagining that he would end it. It may have cost me some hours of up at university – let alone that he would sleep, but I’ve managed to see friends, be a stand out among hundreds of other travel, visit home, study abroad, and  nd talented students in Political Science. some time to relax while keeping my By the end of 2010, he had scored a GPA a€ oat.” hat trick in student awards. He won the He’s done more than just keep his Monte Kwinter Award and the Andrew GPA a€ oat! In November 2010, he Nigrini Sr. Memorial Scholarship for won the Frederick G. Gardiner scholar- outstanding achievement among sec- ship for being a top student in the joint ond year political science students on specialist program in Economics and the St. George campus; and the Pollara Political Science on the St. George cam- Book prize for quantitative research pre- Samya Hassan’s parents con- sentation. vinced her four year ago to stay at home His undergraduate career began with and take advantage of the co-op pro- Woodsworth College’s Academic Bridg- gram at U of T’s Scarborough campus. ing Program, which opened a huge door Samya immersed herself in her under- to him. Nathan was quickly drawn to graduate experience, excelled across Political Science after taking Rod Had- the board, and now is choosing among dow’s POL 103 – Canada in Comparative the prestigious graduate and profession- Context. al programs that have admitted her. He is a true scholar – often in the She was drawn into Political Science front row asking questions. And while in courses taught by Prof. Phil Triadi- he obviously spends considerable en- pus. He had already won awards at the  lopoulos and instructor Holly Gibbs. ergy on his course work, he  nds addi- Trudeau Centre for Peace and Con€ ict From those beginnings, she became a tional time to manage an activist website Studies and University College. four time winner of the Queen Eliza- that monitors hate graf ti in Hamilton Among the courses with lasting im- beth II Aiming for the Top Scholarship, (www.hateinhamilton.ca) which feeds print have been “Peacebuilding,” with awarded for outstanding academic into his interest in issues of collective Robert Mathews, and “Becoming Israel: promise and achievement. She has won War, Peace, and the Politics of Israel’s the Living History in Canada Scholarship Identity,” with Emanuel Adler. This past for an essay about Canadian war veter- year, he directed the Peace and Con€ ict ans. And she’s twice been recognized at Studies Conference, centred on local UTSC for her volunteer commitment. community approaches to peace, bring- Beyond campus, Samya is the founder ing together 25 speakers from around and director of a not-for-pro t founda- the world and attracting 300 attendees. tion that raises money for breast cancer And this is not all he juggles at once. treatment in Pakistan. She is acutely “It’s easy to get overwhelmed – and im- aware of how lucky she and other Ca- possible to keep up with all the events, nadians are in having a universal health identity. At every turn, he sees the link- clubs, and other opportunities that are care system. “Through donations, we ages between academic research and available through the University. The hope that Pakistani women with breast community improvement. best you can do is keep an ear and eye cancer, who could not otherwise afford With nine U of T academic awards un- open.” it, can have a hope for treatment.” der his belt, Nathan plans to pursue a Aaron plans graduate studies in law She hopes to work on social policy and Master’s degree in Political Science, and and global affairs, and hopes eventually poverty reduction in either the provin- is trying to decide between a number of to work with an organization that is fo- cial or federal governments. You’ll be quite different research questions that cused on social justice or con€ ict resolu- hearing more from her. have caught his attention. There can’t tion, either as an intern or volunteer. be any doubt that he will excel.§

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8 New grad scholarship honours Al Johnson Retiring Of€ cially Al Johnson died last November, after an extraordinary record of public service Over the last year, the department has in government and public broadcasting. marked the of€ cial retirements of sev- His career included a six-year-long ap- eral faculty with long and distinguished pointment as Professor of Public Policy careers, teaching countless students, and Public Administration at the Uni- contributing to what we know about Ca- versity of Toronto. nadian federalism, development in Af- With Johnson’s link to Political Sci- rica, Russian courts and politics, Indian ence, and his major contributions politics, and Canadian theory. They broadcasting, it is hardly surprising that will stay active in one way or another, Frank Peers wanted to create a gradu- and we will not be losing sight of them, ate scholarship in his name. He had but the department has ample reason already created several graduate awards to celebrate their contributions: to honour the distinguished colleagues he served with while an active member Spring 2010 retirements: of the department. Frank’s own impor- • Donald Forbes tant leadership in public affairs at CBC • Richard Simeon prior to his joining the professorate also • Peter Solomon made Johnson a natural choice for a of knowledge and experience to join a Spring 2011: new award. network of Canadians helping South Af- • Arthur Rubinoff Al Johnson joined Saskatchewan’s rica effect the constitutional transition • Richard Sandbrook public service from soon after the 1945 to full democracy, eventually developing • Susan Solomon completion of his U of T masters degree and directing the South Africa/Canada in public administration. (He later ob- program on Governance in the 1990s. In the spring of 2009 the St. George tained a Ph.D. at Harvard.) He was an In 2004, he published Dream No Little campus department was also saddened in uential player in that extraordinarily Dreams: A Biography of the Douglas that Rita O’Brien, of€ ce manager, took innovative provincial government until Government of Saskatchewan, 1944-61, a step up in her career by moving into moving to the Department of Finance in which won the CPSA’s Donald Smiley a challenging new position. She and Ottawa in 1964. Prize. In 1997, he was named a Com- her lilting Irish voice are now enliven- From 1975 until 1982, he was Presi- panion of the Order of Canada, one of ing Hart House, not so very far away. dent and Board Chair of the CBC, where a great number of awards showered on In June 2011, we are also having to bid he was a strong supporter of the kind of him. farewell to Catharine Tunnacliffe, who public affairs programming for which The A.W. Johnson Scholarship in Ca- € lled the O’Brien shoes for an event- the Corporation had become famous. nadian Government and Public Admin- ful and pressured two years with great And as Peers notes, ““he helped main- istration is awarded each year to gradu- good humour. We wish her well as she tain funding levels for the CBC through- ate student in Political Science whose marks out the next stage of her event- out the period of his leadership: the cuts interests lie in those € elds. It is a worthy ful career. started only after his term ended.” remembrance of someone Frank Peers Johnson’s next career was in the acad- refers to as “a gracious man; a very good emy, € rst at Queen’s and then U of T. person.” § At the same time, he applied his wealth

DEIBERT, continued from page 1 It helps having gifted collaborators, The news.politics team and the great talents of the Citizen undergraduates. Lab’s research manager Masashi Editor: David Rayside His work is serious and careful. “We Crete-Nishihata (recently graduated Editorial and design associates: have to be very focused, emphasizing our as a joint specialist in Political Science Catharine Tunnacliffe, Liz Jagdeo, Brian role in generating carefully-structured and Sociology), and senior research Park, Wendy Wong, Chris Cochrane, Peter and methodologically sound research, colleagues like Rafai Rohozinski. Loewen aimed at raising awareness generally Four teenagers at home help put Additional Contributors: David about the political uses of cyberspace.” some healthy limits on work. Being Cameron, Ronnie Beiner, Matt Hoffmann It’s also important not to fall into the able to work remotely sometimes helps Photographic assistance: Caz Zyvatkaus- trap of making guesses, especially with – there too the internet is a source of kas, Johnny Guatto, Kenneth Lai so many demands from the media. tyrannical control as well as liberation.§

9 NEWS at Political Science Alumni Association SCARBOROUGH hosts event for new city councillors Matt Hoffmann

There is much change in the winds for Political Science at Scarborough – new faces, retirements, and plans for restruc- turing social sciences on that campus. This past fall saw the arrival of Chris Left to right: Kamara Jefferey, Mary Fragedakis, Sarah Doucette, Michelle Cochrane, who completed his Ph.D. in Berardinetti, Doug Ford, Mary-Margaret McMahon, Anthony Fernando our department (under Neil Nevitte) last year. Chris’s strengths lie in the Soon after Toronto’s Oct 25th election, faculty, staff, and other political junkies subtle exploration of Canadian attitude the Political Science Alumni Associa- in University College’s Croft Chapter patterns and making sense of them to tion invited all the new councilors to House. a broad audience. Renan Levine also a reception on campus. Almost all of The newbies included two Political joined the faculty at UTSC, bringing them said “yes,” setting the stage for Science alumni – Mike Layton, who with him a sterling teaching record in a terri c event for the newly formed completed his undergraduate degree U.S. politics and methods in other parts PSAA. at the Mississauga campus (story on p. of our tri-campus department. The municipal election was one of 2), and Mary Fragedakis, who has a B.A. The 2010-11 year has seen searches for the most unpredictable in Toronto’s and M.A. from the U of T. two additional positions. Daniel Lee, a history, surprising even the sharpest Schmoozing was eased by wine and political theorist specializing in Roman political observers. Rob Ford’s simple cheese generously supplied by alumni law, is coming to us with a Ph.D. from and now iconic slogan “stop the gravy member Kerry Wicks, owner of Har- Princeton and a post doc at Columbia. train” resonated with large numbers of wood Estate Vineyards. Anthony Fer- Bill Hurst is being appointed to a posi- citizens, upsetting some established vot- nando, interim coordinator of PSAA, tion in Asian politics. His  nal degree ing patterns. Several council veterans served as the engaging MC. He talked is from UC Berkeley; he has taught for were also stepping aside, leaving more about the Association’s plans for the three years at the University of Texas at room than usual for new faces. near future, including a mentorship Austin, and has already published two An energetic team of PSAA executive program connecting recent graduates books on Chinese workers. members, headed by Anthony Fer- with mid-career professionals who have This year is also seeing the retirement nando, Kamara Jeffery, and Kerry Wicks built successfully on their Political Sci- of two long-standing members of the went to work preparing for “Meet the ence backgrounds. Scarborough team – Susan Solomon Rookie Councillors.” On December Anyone interested in helping build and Arthur Rubinoff. They have been 1st, twelve of the fourteen newly-sworn the PSAA should contact Anthony major contributors over many years, in members joined a crowd of Politi- directly at anthonynfernando@ and we will be sorry to see them leave cal Science alumni, current students, yahoo.ca. § the roster of full-time faculty. creation of more discipline-based de- student numbers. I am hoping for ad- This year’s new appointments main- partments to replace the old social sci- ditional appointments at least in public tain the full-time faculty complement ences and humanities clusters. Plans policy and international relations in the at twelve (along with three contractu- are now under way to “departmentalize” next couple of years. ally-limited positions). This represents the social sciences, so that in the near Carla Norloff (discipline rep for PS), signi cant growth for the discipline on future Political Science will become a Lucan Way, Peggy Kohn, and I have new that campus, and a re! ection of how stand-alone unit. books on topics as varied as internation- student numbers have expanded (to That will (in theory) put me (as So- al cooperation, authoritarian regimes, over 400 majors and 125 specialists. cial Sciences chair) out of a job, though postcolonial theory, and climate gover- This kind of growth for the whole there is much to do in the meantime to nance (see Books article on p. 11). Scarborough campus is leading to the ensure continued expansion to meet So a busy year indeed.

10 Graduated Ph.D.s Books, books, books Winning Awards • Debra Thompson (Ph.D. 2010), Politics faculty members don’t just or co-edited by Ron Deibert (Access Governor General’s Gold Medal 2011; publish their research in books. But Controlled), Jacque Bertrand also the 2010 John McMenemy Prize do they ever write and edit a lot of (Multinational States for best article in Canadian Journal of them, and for major publishing in Asia); David Political Science. houses around the world. Rayside (Faith, Among the headliners Politics, and • Kristin Good (Ph.D. 2006), for 2010 and early 2011 were Sexual Diversity CPSA’s Donald Smiley Prize, Ronnie Beiner’s Civil in Canada and the 2010, for her book Munici- Religion: A Dialogue United States); John palities and Multiculturalism. in the History of Kirton (Securing Political Philosophy the Global Economy); • Vincent Pouliot (Ph.D. (Cambridge Patricia McCarney 2008), CPSA’s 2011 prize in University (Peri-Urban Water and International Politics for his book Inter- Press); Sanitation Services; and national Security in Practice: The Politics Ran Hirschl, Cities and Governance); of NATO–Russian Diplomacy. Also 2009 Constitutional Theocracy and Linda White winner of the Vincent Lemieux Disser- (Harvard University and Peter Russell tation Prize. Press); Matt Hoffmann, (Essential Readings Climate Governance at the in Canadian Govern- • Stephen White (Ph.D. 2010), Antoine Cross-Roads: Experimenting ment and Politics). Bilodeau (Ph.D. 2004), and Prof. Neil with a Global Response After Kyoto And if we go back Nevitte, 2011 John McMenemy Prize (Oxford University Press); Joe just a short while, to for best article in the CJPS. Carens, Immigrants and the Right 2009 and 2008, the array to Stay (MIT Press); and of publications is even • Jennifer Nelles (Ph.D. 2009), best Carla Norrlof, America’s Global more dramatic. Ryan paper in Urban Politics, APSA, 2010 Advantage: U.S. Hegemony Balot, Sylvia Bashevkin, and International Stephen Clarkson, Ron • Jenn Wallner (Ph.D. 2010), Deil Cooperation Deibert, Antoinette Wright Award for best paper in federal- (Cambridge). Handley, Randall ism and intergovernmental relations, Recently, Larry Hansen, Courtney APSA, 2010 Leduc published two Jung, Jeff Kopstein, co-authored books, Rauna Kuokkanen, • Robert Sparling (Ph.D. 2008), APSA’s Comparing Democracies 3: Ruth Marshall, Larry Leo Strauss Award, 2009, for best Elections and Voting in the Leduc, David Rayside, dissertation in political philosophy (Jo- 21st Century (Sage), and Ayelet Shachar, Grace hann Georg Hamann and the Enlight- Dynasties and Interludes: Past Skogstad, Janice Stein, enment Project) and Present in Canadian Electoral and David Wolfe – all Politics (Dundurn). Peggy Kohn authored or co-authored co-wrote Political Theories of Post- books. Faculty honours Colonialism (Oxford); Lucan Fourteen additional Way co-authored Competitive volumes had U of T Political • Graham White has served as CPSA Authoritarianism: Hybrid Science faculty as editors. President for 2010-11; the fourth de- Regimes After the Cold War This adds up to about 50 partment member in 20 years to hold (Cambridge); and Stephen books, covering every this position (Grace Skogstad, Sylvia Clarkson co-authored A ! eld in the discipline, Bashevkin, Peter Russell being the oth- Perilous Imbalance: The Globalization of countless political issues, ers.) Canadian Law and Governance (UBC). and every continent Simone Chambers was a co- except Antarctica. • Stephen Clarkson has been named editor of the monumental four- And then there a Member of the Order of Canada, volume Encyclopedia of Political Science are books published by joining Janice Stein, Stefan Dupré, and (Congressional Quarterly Press). our recently completed Cran Pratt in that distinction. Collections of articles were edited Ph.D. students. But that’s another story. §

11 Joe Wong and Jeff Kopstein in Convocation Hall, teaching POL101 before 1100 St. George campus students. The course title – Democracy, Dictatorship, War, and Peace – speaks to its wide scope, and the daunting challenge facing these star instructors and their team of a dozen-and-a-half Political Science T.A.s. Guest speakers have included Janice Stein, who until recently taught a ! rst year course in global politics (with Ron Deibert), and U of T President David Naylor, who talked about the Canadian response to SARS in the context of a broader discussion of state response to emergencies.

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