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Volume 2 / Issue 1 Fall 2011 Celebrating Two Distinguished Richards Symposium Honouring Simeon Sandbrook’s Huge lon, a Ph.D. alumnus of the department, now at the University of Ottawa, 41-year Footprint was one of several speakers who spoke warmly of Richard’s impact on him No one really believes that Rich- and the field. In response to these and ard Sandbrook has “retired.” other stories, Richard responded with He is still immensely produc- characteristic warmth and enthusiasm. tive, and he looks too young. Since joining the department of In 1972, Richard’s Ph.D. disserta- Political Economy in 1970, he has tion (at Yale) became a book (Federal- authored/co-authored, or edited 13 Provincial Diplomacy) that was to have books and written over 50 articles. Sev- lasting influence in the field within eral books have been reprinted and and beyond this country. He taught at translated into other languages, and Queen’s for some time, serving as direc- they are respected and cited to an ex- tor of the Institute of Intergovernmen- traordinary extent. In 1984, at a com- Richard Simeon was honoured by a tal Relations and then of the School paratively young age, he was elected a two-day workshop and a gala dinner of Public Administration. He joined fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. in the Great Hall of Hart House this the U of T in 1991, with links to Law as As Atul Kohli (Princeton) says, “he past September. Friends and schol- well as the department. He has been a is among the very best scholars of Af- ars, all of them admiring of everything visitor at Harvard, Essex, Cape Town, rican and comparative political devel- that Richard had done over a long and UBC. In 2004, he was named a opment in the world. His books have career, gathered from across Canada Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. ranged far and wide: from African po- and Europe to do what he has always He has advised governments, royal litical economy to globalization to so- most liked doing – exchange ideas on commissions, and a vast array of po- cial democracy and now to rethinking the “Global Promise of Federalism.” litical participants. He is a member of the relevance of Polanyi to a more hu- The shared connection to Rich- the Advisory committee of the Club de manistic approach to development. He ard of those who presented and those Madrid, an international grouping of has made a mark in all of these areas. . . who gathered for dinner reflected the former heads of state and government breadth and extent of his contribution dedicated to democratic transition. to the scholarship on and practice of From an early period, Richard be- federalism. At the gala, Martin Papil- lieved that Canada’s experiences provid- In This Issue ed lessons for other countries. Starting New Faces 2 in 1995 he travelled to South Africa, at an Sal Cusimano’s Remarkable Leadership 3 extraordinary time of democratic tran- Undergraduate Developments 4 sition. He has also travelled to Sudan Faculty Grants 5 PSAA Event 6 and Iraq, hoping that federal solutions Rob Vipond Launches Leadership Lunches 7 might contribute to reducing conflict. Richard with his granddaughter Isabella continued on page 2 continued on page 6

1 New Faces Vsevolod (Seva) Gunitskiy York to Oxford and then to Princeton, Krisztina Harmath Daniel’s research shifted toward Roman joined the De- Law. “My original interest actually was joined us as department in 2011, in Hegel’s political and moral philoso- partment man- cross-appointed phy, but my research eventually moved ager (St. George with Peace and to understand how Roman law framed campus) this Conflict Stud- the background, to show that ideas summer, bring- ies. His research eventually crafted by Kant, Rousseau, ing ten years of focuses on how and Hegel had their origins in this early central and divi- global power modern period.” Next year, his gradu- sional UofT expe- shifts are shaped ate teaching on the St. George campus rience. Krisztina by the spread will feature a new course (also listed as a was first educated and retreat of communist, fascist, and 4th year course) on sovereignty. Outside in international business in Budapest, democratic domestic regimes. His dis- his university life, Daniel is an aficio- and as a ski instructor on the slopes of sertation (at Columbia) was supervised nado of early music, and plays the cello. the Alps and Carpathian Mountains. by Jack Snyder and Kenneth Walz, and Stepping out from behind the Iron he is now working on his first book: De- Curtain she put her adaptation skills to mocracy and the Decline of Great Powers. William (Bill) the test as an AIESEC intern in Merida, Seva was born in Russia and moved to Hurst Mexico. Adding a Ryerson certificate New York City when he was 11. He has program in business computer applica- joined the depart- now moved to Canada with a wry set of tions and experience in “SAP” Finan- ment this year, af- comparative observations. “I miss be- cials implementation prepared her for a ter four years at the ing able to buy lumber and potting soil move to the university, where she has as- University of Texas on Amazon.com.” Canadians are also sumed business managerial and adviso- at Austin, a post- inefficient spellers: “words like ‘color’ ry roles prior to this new challenge -- “a doc at Oxford, and become 20 percent longer.” That said, great opportunity” at Political Science. he likes getting around his new city on before that a Ph.D. a bicycle, and he finds Torontonians to at Berkeley. Bill is a specialist in “contentious politics” in China and Southeast VERY New Faces be generally friendlier than his coun- We’ve had a PS baby boom, including 2 trymen from New York City. Here, Asia, particularly Indonesia. His book, The Chinese Worker after Socialism, was pub- sets of twins. Among faculty and staff: he’s noticed, “accidental eye contact Felix, son of Christian Breunig lished by Cambridge in 2009, and more is not considered an act of aggres- Peter Craig, son of Courtney Jung sion.” If he finds himself a tuque for recently he has been in the field explor- Jarrett, son of Wil Kurth the winter, Seva will get used to Canada. ing courts and other legal institutions in Kamraan Victor & Idris Siraj, sons China and Indonesia. Bill generally en- of Lucan Way joys large cities, he says that it is actually Additions to Ph.D. student families: Daniel Lee a rather small thing that has impressed Flora, daughter of Elinor Bray Collins is based at UTSc, him most about Toronto. “Whenever I Victoria, daughter of Kimberly Carter and he is the new- ride the subway or streetcar with my two Nola, daughter of David Gordon est addition to the kids, people routinely give up their seats Aleksandar and Stefan, sons of Olga Kesarchuk & Nicola Milicic political theory for them,” he’s observed. Bill is based at And at press time: contingent. Dan- UTSc, and associated with the Centre Stefan, son of Adrian Atanasescu iel’s academic tra- for Southeast Asian Studies at Munk. jectory began in his undergraduate Simeon, continued from page 1 undergraduate course, Canada in years at Columbia, at a time when the As he puts it, “the choice is to face Comparative Perspective, which he dominance of Rawlsian liberalism over a self-fulfilling prophecy of fail- then piloted through many years. political and legal theory was beginning ure or make some small attempt to Because Richard has formally re- to wane. There, he encountered several turn things around, and hopefully tired doesn’t mean he is stopping. He influential theorists, most notably Da- help a few people along the way.” is still writing; he still contributes to vid Armitage, who turned Daniel to the To the very core of his being, conferences; he continues to advise historical study of political ideas. While Simeon is an educator. He has with wisdom and humility. And as was still an undergraduate, he also met his worked with and co-published with so much in evidence in September, eventual dissertation supervisor, Philip many doctoral students. In the he continues to learn from others, Petit (based at Princeton). From New 1990s he developed a new 1st-year and listen as enthusiastically as ever.

2 Sal Cusimano’s Remarkable Leadership Krisztina Harmath It’s hard to imag- g u a r a n - meets faculty members easily, and has ine keeping up tees of recognized the value of doing just that. with Salvator. He social and “I was always grateful that I had is president of economic the opportunity to have really intel- the Association r i g h t s . lectual discussions with profs who of Political Sci- The fol- were doing interesting things, who ence Students, l o w i n g know everything that I don’t know.” gets startlingly year, he With APSS, he has worked with good grades, a s s i s t e d Rob Vipond in developing “leader- plays soccer in Stephen ship lunches” bringing together distin- two leagues - and Clarkson guished alumni and undergraduates he’s had wide- in prepar- (see p. 7). They have also launched ranging research ing his a new initiative enabling POL 101 stu- experience. new book dents to meet their profs (Kopstein and As APSS president, he leads an ex- Dependent America. Wong) outside class, the first one (over ecutive team with an extremely ambi- In an independent study course with pizza) attracting more than 60 students. tious agenda to engage undergraduate Vera Achvarina, he focussed on child sol- And then there is soccer, an endur- students. Two years ago, his first on diers. After securing grant support, he ing passion since childhood. That, the association’s executive, he edited and student colleague Sima Atri surveyed too, is about team work, which he says the Undergraduate Journal of Political hundreds of people in Uganda - a coun- is the hallmark of APSS’s success in Science, and this year is doing similar try deeply troubled by years of violence. representing students, and creating service for Attaché, the student journal Their research aimed at confronting the opportunities for their engagement in I.R – he combines interests in inter- challenges in securing justice where the in the department and in politics. national relations and in peace and involvement of children in conflict has After the end of this final year as conflict alongside political science. been so widespread. This November an undergraduate, what lies ahead? Along with the APSS team, he has also they travelled to New York to present Graduate work first – in the U.S., organized major conferences on topics findings to UNICEF and UN officials. Britain, or Canada, and then per- ranging from the myths of Canadian Apart from those instructors he has haps work for an international NGO identity to Middle East transformation. worked with directly, several others have like the International Rescue Com- Also in second year, he worked made their mark: Thomas Tieku, Eman- mittee, which focuses on relief and with Courtney Jung on a project that uel Adler, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Antoi- reconstruction. Salvator wants to explored the impact of constitutional nette Handley. It is soon obvious that he fight for change, and he’s in a hurry.

Isaiah Berlin and The Arab Spring Michael Ignatieff (left), Prof. Ra- min Jahanbegloo (right), along with moderator Prof. Mark Kingwell (centre), discuss the relevance of political philosopher Isaiah Berlin to the popular protests in the Arab world. Ignatieff, who this year is a senior fellow at Massey College, and Jahanbe- gloo, who in recent years has been teaching in our department, have each authored major books on Ber- lin. This event, held in September, was co-sponsored by the Political Sci- ence Department and PEN Canada. photograph by Matthew D.H Gray

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3 Undergraduate Developments New Margaret J.E. Enrolment in political science programs and Liz Jagdeo are juggling a range of al- White Scholarship across our three campuses are similar to ternatives to address the challenge while Awarded last year. Just under 600 students are en- still ensuring an engaging experience The St. George Department is de- rolled in specialists, the numbers slightly for senior students. There are three lighted to introduce a new award for down at St. George and significantly up new fourth-year courses also serving as an outstanding student interested in at UTM. This is about twice the num- graduate courses – in theory (Daniel Canadian politics. Brian White cre- ber of specialists across campuses in Lee’s on Sovereignty), comparative (Bill ated this to honour his mother, both 1997-98. Majors total over 1700, up on Hurst’s on Contentious Politics), and of them sharing a lifelong interest in St George and UTM. Total undergradu- one crossing those two fields (Rauna Canadian politics. As he puts it, his ate enrolment is approximately 3600. Kuokkanen’s on Indigenous Theory). mother Margaret “is probably the This is a year of comparative stability November is also undergraduate only person in all of Canada who can in terms of programs and courses. The award season – an opportunity to rec- watch CPAC ten hours a day.” The St. George campus is facing a numbers ognize outstanding students. The cer- inaugural winner this year is Cindy crunch at the 4th year level, made more emonies for handing out these awards Yi, now a 4th year student, majoring intense because of a new faculty-wide re- also provide an opportunity to thank in POL and Ethics, Society and Law. quirement that majors take at least a half donors for their great generosity. course at that level. Antoinette Handley Teaching Awards and 117 161 High Honours 317 The department has a long history 319 299 of teaching awards at the univer- 1098 sity, campus, and faculty level. No

99 exception this year. In November, 634 Wendy Wong received an under- 555 * includes joint specialist programs graduate teaching award from the U of T Students’ Union and the As- Undergraduate Award Winners for 2010-11 sociation of Part-Time Undergradu- St. George Campus: Overall Academic Achievement ate Students. In June, at UTSc, Phil Triadafilopoulos was presented with Colleen McKeown Suzanne and Edwin Goodman Prize Specialist: graduating student Wei Yang Ong Suzanne and Edwin Goodman Prize Specialist: graduating student the faculty teaching award, and Nathan Berman Jules and Elaine James Scholarship Specialist: 4th yr. student Ph.D. student Caroline Hossein was David Byun Andrew Nigrini Sr. Memorial Scholarship Specialist: 2nd yr. student Ashley Racine Mary Keenan Award Specialist: 1st yr. student presented the graduate T.A. award. Laura Correa Ochoa Alexander Mackenzie Scholarship PS program: 2nd or 3rd yr. student Michael Barwick Monte Kwinter Award PS program: 2nd yr. student Two faculty colleagues have been Cindy Yi Margaret J.E. White Scholarship PS prog Cdn politics: 3rd or 4th yr. recently appointed to the Royal So- Zachary Garcia Paul L. Nathanson Scholarship 3rd year student ciety of Canada: Lou Pauly and Alan Prize winners for awards associated with individual courses: Laura Correa Ochoa and Felix Cowan (Cdn. International Council Book Prize), Alexandra Robertson and Christie Bates (Ruth Robinson Leberg Book Prize), Braden Palmer Skippen (Brian Brudner (who is cross-appointed to Mulroney Prize), Michael Maher (Mark Adler Scholarship), Martin Alite (J. Michael Kyne Award), William Schatten (Pollara Book POL from Law). They join a distin- Prize), and Erin Elizabeth Troy (Rabbi Isserman Prize) guished roster that includes profes- UTSC Award sors Bashevkin, Beiner, Cameron, Alan Tang Filosa Family Scholarship 2nd yr. student Magocsi, Nevitte, Roach, and Stein UTM Awards and among emeritus faculty, Clark- son, Cunningham, Pratt, Russell, Hassan Ahmed Peter Silcox Award Best student in Canadian Politics Shannon Armstrong James Barros Award Best student in International Relations Sandbrook, Simeon, and Tuohy. New Donation Matching Program Announced The Provost has created a new fund tract the brightest Ph.D. applicants from are completed by the end of 2013. If that will match endowments of $50,000 around the world. Each endowment gift you or someone you know is interest- or more to support international grad- of $50,000, $100,000, or more (by indi- ed, contact the departmental chair uate students. This reflects a priority viduals or groups), will be matched as ([email protected]) or the of the department, as well as the U long as the budgetary allocation for this Arts and Science Advancement of- of T, to expand the resources to at- program lasts, and as long as payments fice ([email protected])..

4 Faculty Grants SSHRC Standard Research Grants 2008-11

Political Science faculty have been re- Balot, Ryan Courage and Its Critics in Democratic Athens 2010 Bashevkin, Sylvia Women’s Representation in International Politics 2010 markably successful in grants compe- Clarkson, Stephen The North American Hegemon International Politics 2009 titions over the last few years. Since Cochrane, Christopher Anti-Muslim Opinion in Canada 2010 Deibert, Ronald Geopolitics of Cyber Warfare 2009 2007-08, 34 applications to the Social Handley, Antoinette Business and HIV/AIDS in Africa 2008 Hansen, Randall Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance After July 1914 2011 Sciences and Humanities Research Jung, Courtney Social and Economic Rights in Developing Countries 2009 Council of Canada have been submit- Kuokkanen, Rauna Gendering Indigenous Self -Determination 2010 Leduc, Lawrence Multi-Level Political Participation Developing Countries 2009 ted from across the three campuses, Loewen, Peter Behavioral Foundations of Participation and Partisanship 2009 Rayside, David Faith and Party Politics in Canada 2010 and 22 have been successful. That’s Schatz, Edward Soft Authoritarian Information Management in Central Asia 2010 a 65 percent success rate, compared Teichman, Judith Social Welfare and Neo-Liberalism in Latin America 2011 White, Graham Capacity Building in Northern 2008 to 34 percent nationwide in political White, Linda Early Childhood Education Policies in Canada 2008 Williams, Melissa East Asian Perspectives on Political Legitimacy 2010 science, and 49 percent across all aca- Indigenous Peoples and Governance * 2009 demic units at the U of T. In addition Wong, Wendy How NGOs Advocate Universal Minority Rights Domestically 2011 to SSHRC, Ron Deibert has secured * A grant under the rubric of a larger CFRI major funding from the MacArthur Foundation for his work on informa- Wong has been supported by the Cana- litical Science faculty members, with tion warfare, and David Wolfe from dian Institute for Advanced Research, Research Coordinator David Wolfe the Canadian Foundation for Innova- and both Lee Ann Fujii and Lynette and Department Manager Krisztina tion (matched ORF funding from the Ong have had major Connaught grants. Harmath providing essential guid- Ontario government) for his ongoing For this year’s round, seven SSHRC ance. research on regional clusters. Wendy applications have been submitted by Po-

Ph.D. Scholarships Current Award Holders The graduate program continues to Arsenault, Gabriel Transformations of the Canadian Welfare State CGS attract first rate Ph.D. students, and Banerjee, Kiran Political Exclusion and Citizenship Vanier one measure of that is their remark- Dubois, Janique Self-government in diverse societies CGS Dumouchel, Joelle Hist. change in central bank internat’al stabilization practices SSHRC able track record in winning awards. Ferraro, Stefan Public/private governance and military contracting CGS Gagné, Marie The state and extractive industries in Africa and S. America CGS Among currently enrolled students, Greaves, Wilfrid Securitization and Climate Change in the Arctic SSHRC two hold the enormously prestigious Grey, Sam Decolonization in persistent settler states CGS Korycki, Kate States inventing nations through creative (dis)remembering SSHRC Vanier scholarships (Paul Thomas win- Lachapelle, Jean Middle Eastern and North African Authoritarianism CGS Laurence, Marion The concept of neutrality in peace support operations CGS ning his this spring, Kiran Banerjee last Mahon, Lindsay Poetry and persuasion in Plato’s political education CGS year). Fourteen hold “super-SSHRC” Millar, Heather Comparative public policy and non-state actors CGS Mondou, Matthieu Biofuel policy in the U.S., Germany, and Canada CGS Canada Graduate Scholarships (four Moosa, Hanna Water resource management and peace-building CGS Paquin-Pelletier, Alexandre Civil society and accommodation in multiethnic states CGS of them new this year - Gabriel Arse- Schillinger, Daniel Classical and late-modern political thought Connaught nault, Sam Grey, Lahoma Thomas, Steflja, Izabela Transitional justice and reconciliation narratives CGS Thomas, Lahoma Violence in post-conflict settings CGS and Stefan Ferraro). Three more Thomas, Paul Parliamentary democracy and MP behaviour Vanier hold SSHRC doctoral fellowships, and one (Daniel Schillinger) is in his sec- On top of all this, 30 of our students won in hand (Kevin Edmonds, Conrad ond year as Connaught award holder. OGS awards for this year, three of them Koczorowski, and Jelena Popovic). As you can see in the accompanying beginning the Ph.D. with their awards table, their research interests echo the amazing breadth that has always been a hallmark of our graduate programs.

5 PSAA Event Assesses Ontario Election they know to and their leaders turned off voters, and be unreliable. contributed to many not casting ballots. Robin Sears, The rhetorical fireworks were artfully an experienced moderated by PSAA executive mem- political strate- bers Katherine Valiquette and Kerry gist and consul- Wicks. They were also key players in tant (with Navi- putting together the panel, alongside From left to right - John Wright, Nelson Wiseman, Katherine Valiquette, Kerry gator) focussed PSAA chair Anthony Fernando, Ka- Wicks, Bob Hepburn and Robin Sears. instead on the mara Jeffrey, Marianne Salih, Anthony For the second year in a row, the Politi- record low turnout, and especially low Careless, and Victor Platt, a political cal Science Alumni Association (PSAA) turnout among young people. Veteran science student assisting the Alumni put a spotlight on a recent election, pro- Toronto Star journalist Bob Hepburn Association this year. In the coming viding a treat for political junkies. This argued that the media, and particularly months, the PSAA looks forward to fall’s Ontario election was under the the print media, went beyond just treat- hosting another event, and to launch- microscope at an event held soon after- ing the election as “horse race,” working ing a new alumni mentorship program. wards, on October 20th. Four panellists hard to focus discussion on real issues. The news.politics team were recuited on short notice to assess He agreed, though, that declining turn- what voters had done, and in particular out was a disturbing and to some extent Editor: David Rayside Editorial and design associates: puzzling development. Prof. Nelson the role of the media in the campaign, Liz Jagdeo, Maria Montemayor drawing in a keenly interested audi- Wiseman dissented from other panellists ence of students, alumni, and faculty. in arguing that comparatively low turn- Additional Contributors: David John Wright, a pollster with Ipsos- out was not a sign of an unhealthy de- Cameron, Matt Hoffmann, Krisztina Reid, sparked extended debate when mocracy. He also claimed that the use of Harmath, Hailey Eisen he challenged the media’s excessive media consultants and strategists to con- Photographic assistance: Matthew reliance on polling, some of it by firms stantly massage the messages of parties D.H. Gray, Conor Brown, David Rayside

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Sandbrook, continued from page 1 “Sandbrook asks big, social- thoughtfulness, care, generosity, sup- Emeritus Corner ly-relevant questions and pur- portiveness, humility, respect, humour. sues them with rigor and vigor.” As Mitu Sengupta, now an award- Jean Edward Smith, who taught at Anthropologist Marc Edelman (City winning teacher at Ryerson Univer- U of T for 34 years before officially University of New York) has talked of sity, said in a tribute delivered in April “retiring” in 1999, has joined the Richard’s broad knowledge of so many 2011, “how do you articulate your History Department at Columbia as different regions in the world, and thoughts about someone who has so senior scholar in of his capacity for seeing the forest, profoundly shaped your life, career, residence, after “when I could only see the trees.” Ali and success?” She talked about how a year at Princ- Guven, now at Koç University in Tur- much she learned about writing and eton and twelve key, has written about the moral cen- revising from him, and how much she at Marshall. The tre of Sandbrook’s contributions – the developed as a teacher because of him. most recent of advocacy of ways to alleviate human In her tribute, Judith Teichman his important suffering in less fortunate societies. said she could only scratch the sur- political biog- Sandbrook was instrumental in es- face of the messages she received from raphies, Eisen- tablishing the Scarborough campus’ scholarly colleagues and former stu- howerin War and co-op international development pro- dents, so many of them eager to write Peace, will be pub- gram, a flagship for UTSc and one at length about what they admired lished by Random House in early of the first in Canada. He has been about, and owed to, Richard Sandbrook. 2012. At Columbia, Jean will write primary supervisor for over 30 doc- As for what happens now, as Sen- Dark Decade, a history of the presiden- toral students, and involved with as gupta says, “I cannot imagine Richard tial years of George W. Bush. “I’m many more as committee member. retiring in the conventional sense of only seventy-eight,” he says, “and They are now making their mark the word. I am sure he will continue I’m just getting my second wind.” around the world. They recall his to surprise, inspire, and innovate.”

6 Rob Vipond Launches Leadership Lunches The idea came from knowing that with many former students. He contact- was an informal give-and-take gather- the department was eager to re-en- ed alumni who had distinguished them- ing with 15-plus students, followed by gage alumni in the life of the depart- selves in a range of fields, and the re- a visit to Joe Wong’s and Jeff Kopstein’s ment, and that students wanted con- sponse was enthusiastic. The Association POL 101 class in Convocation Hall. nections to post-university life. Rob of Political Science Students (APSS) was The next lunch, in March, spot- lighted Alex Shprintsen, producer with the CBC’s National news, and Jennifer Deyell, independent screen writer. Once again, a great success. In September, Vipond’s guest was Adam Halim, from Procter & Gamble, who attracted a large audience of 50 undergraduates. Future plans include bringing in alums with careers in the Ontario public service, policy consulting, and financial institutions. The news.politics team Vipond and the APSS executive see this initiatve as a huge success. Return- ing alumni are delighted to contribute, Editorial and design associates: and students get to see a range of careers illustrated for them, and to ask questions Soraya Farha (centre) with lawyer-husband Frank McLaughlin (right) and Prof. Rob Vipond (left) at about finding that first position. As Vi- the first Leadership Lunch, Feruary 2011 pond puts it, “students don’t need to be Vipond saw the “Leadership Lunch- keen to send word out to other students, convinced that political science is inter- es” as a way to address both goals. and the response was equally keen. esting, or that you can do a lot of differ- As a superb teacher of long standing, The first lunch featured Soraya Far- ent things with it; but they are interested with nine years of experience as a de- ha and Frank McLaughlin, both law- in knowing how you do it – how you start partment chair, Vipond was still in touch yers (see profile of Soraya below). It a career in an area that has grabbed you while you’ve been a student.” ALUMNI profile Emeritus Corner Soraya Farha: Lawyer, Adjudicator, Mentor Soraya Farha started her undergradu- inist interested in law and politics. She College of Physicians and Surgeons. ate work intent on an English major, but went from a B.A. to the U of T law school In both capacities, Soraya chairs took POL 100 without knowing what in 1985, and then into private practice. panels of adjudicators, and is respon- to expect. She loved it; she did well Soraya took several years away from sible for drafting and editing written in it; and switched to Political Science. that practice while having three chil- decisions. She also has mentoring Rob Vipond’s second-year course dren with her lawyer husband. Then functions, and helps develop and de- in American politics deepened her en- on the advice of an adjudicator, she liver educational programs. The flex- thusiasm. “He was an excellent lectur- applied for a position on the Health ibility of these jobs, more likely to be er – articulate, clear, accessible, wryly Services Appeal and Review Board, a found in the broad field of adminis- humorous – and he provided incred- provincial-government-appointed tribu- trative law than other parts of the pro- ibly detailed feedback on written work, nal which hears appeals about health fession, allows her a modicum of bal- pushing you to the next level.” She matters, including the eligibility of ance between career and family life. also took a course in political theory, people for health coverage in Ontario, On the invitation of Rob Vi- and encountered Alkis Kontos as the and the coverage of specific proce- pond, Soraya and her husband Frank electrifying instructor who helped ex- dures within and beyond the province. McLaughlin returned to meet a cite a long-standing interest in theory. Soraya was appointed a vice-chair of group of undergraduates for the first After a year abroad at the London the Board, and is now one of its most of his “leadership lunches” on Mon- School of Economics, she returned experienced members. She has also day, February 28. (See above.) She to Vipond’s fourth-year seminar on been appointed to the Health Profes- loved the experience, and hopes it American constitutionalism – “a won- sions Appeal and Review Board, which provided the students she met with derful course.” Among the guests who reviews decisions made by regulated the kind of “great experience” that stood out was Jennifer Nedelsky, a fem- health professional bodies like the she had when she was in their shoes.

7 Peter Loewen, UTM faculty member, in Lima, Peru. The very opposite of a sedentary thinker, Loewen equipped himself this July with nothing more or less than a motorcycle, a GPS and a boot stuffed with cash and rode from Toronto to Lima. Here he is, pictured in his natural habit. He’s done this before, biking from Cairo to Cape Town in 2008. so we guess he knew what he was in for. And now, after weathering fog, rain, high winds, reckless drivers, extorting police, and dangerously-twisted roads, he’ll be back on the bike before long – maybe as far south as you can go in the Americas, to Cape Horn.

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