Federal Election
Akaash Maharaj
Senior Fellow
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Federal Politics, Political Parties, and Elections
- International Relations, Foreign Affairs, and Diplomacy
- Political Corruption and Anti-Corruption
- Sport Ethics, Olympics, and Paralympics
- War; Peace, and Conflict Resolution
Office: N/A
Mobile: (416) 995 3275
Languages (in addition to English): French
Email: akaash@maharaj.org
Andrew McDougall
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian federalism and intergovernmental relations
- Conservative leadership
- Constitutional law
- Provincial politics
Office: (416) 432-3813
Website
Email: andrew.mcdougall@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Aurel Braun
Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canada-U.S.-Russia relations
- Conflict resolution
- International Politics
- Middle East conflicts
- NATO and strategic issues
- Russian and East European Politics
- Strategic studies
Office: 416-946-8952
Languages (in addition to English): French, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian
Website
Email: abraun@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Bernard Dickens
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Abortion rights
- Bioethics
- Health policy
- Medical and health law
- Medical ethics
Office: 416-978-4849
Home: 416-967-0687
Mobile: 416-967-0687
Website
Email: bernard.dickens@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Dan Trefler
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Canada
- China
- Competition policy
- Competitive strategy
- Economic regulation
- Economics
- Europe
- Globalization
- Industry clusters
- Intellectual property
- International trade
- International trade and competitiveness
- Mexico
- Productivity
- Technological innovation
- United States
Office: 416-946-7945
Website
Email: dtrefler@rotman.utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
David Lie
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Bridging Technology and policy
- Cloud computing security
- Securing mobile platforms
Office: N/A
Mobile: (416) 946-0251
Website
Email: lie@eecg.utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Elizabeth Dhuey
Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Economics of K-12 education
- Kindergarten
- Middle/Junior High School
- Principals
- Redshirting
- Special Education Finance
Office: N/A
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: elizabeth.dhuey@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Enid Slack
Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- COVID-19 - Financial impact on municipalities
- Intergovernmental transfers
- Municipal finance - revenues and expenditures of municipal governments
- Municipal restructuring
- New sources of municipal revenue
- Property tax reform
- Property tax, property tax reform, intergovernmental transfers, user fees, new sources of municipal revenue
- User fees
Office: 416-946-0328
Email: enid.slack@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Eric Merkley
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian politics
- Elections
- Fake news & misinformation
- News media & politics
- Polarization
- Public opinion
- Social media toxicity
- U.S. politics
Office: N/A
Website
Email: eric.merkley@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Ito Peng
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canada’s approach to long-term care
- Child care policy
- East Asia/Asia Pacific public policy
- East-west comparisons
- Elder care policy
- Family and gender policies
- Fertility
- Japan
- Marriage and aging society
- Social policy
- South Korea
- System issues in long-term care
- Systemic issues at LTC facilities
- Taiwan
- Women and migration
Office: 416-946-5902
Languages (in addition to English): Japanese
Website
Email: itopeng@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jeffrey Dvorkin
Senior Fellow, Massey College
Former director, Journalism Program
- Campus
Areas of Expertise
- Changing role of media
- Disinformation & censorship
- Importance of trusted media sources
- Journalism ethics
- Media management and ethical decision-making
- Misinformation
- News ombudsmanship
- Significance of digital freedom & government accountability
- Social media and democratic practice
- Spread of misinformation
- The challenge of digital information
- The role of cameras in court rooms
- Youth vote reporting
Office: N/A
Home: 416-537-2892
Mobile: 647-401-5330
Languages (in addition to English): French, German, Hebrew
Email: jeffrey.dvorkin@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jessica Green
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Carbon tax
- Climate change politics
- Climate governance
- Environmental activism
- Global environmental politics
- Making public policy
Office: 416.978.6758
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: jf.green@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Linda White
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian and comparative public policy
- Child care and family policy
- Early childhood education and care
- Federalism and Canadian public policy
- Gender and public policy
- Gender pay gap
Office: 416-978-2857
Mobile: 647-225-9164
Website
Email: linda.white@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Lynette Ong
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Asian political economy
- Chinese politics
- Comparative Authoritarianism
- Comparative politics
Office: 416-978-6804
Languages (in addition to English): English,Chinese (Mandarin)
Website
Email: lynette.ong@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Mark Kingwell
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Contemporary politics (justice and citizenship)
- Design and architecture
- Ethics
- History of philosophy
- Popular culture (film and television)
Office: 416-536-5788
Website
Email: mark.kingwell@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Matthew Hoffmann
Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Climate change politics
- Climate-related policy
- Environmental policy
- Global environmental politics
- Global governance
- International relations
- Investing in green technology
Office: 416-287-7287
Mobile: 647-987-1961
Website
Email: matt.hoffmann@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Nelson Wiseman
Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canada in the world
- Canada’s political parties and leaders
- Canadian politics and policy
- Elections and Voting
- Provincial politics
Office: 416.922-5595 call or email do not text
Email: nelson.wiseman@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Peter Dungan
Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian economic policy
- Canadian economy
- Economic forecasts and policy
- Fiscal policy
- Macroeconomics
Office: 416-978-4182
Home: 416-756-4605
Mobile: 647-998-4605
Website
Email: pdungan@rotman.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Phil Triadafilopoulos
Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian public policy
- Immigration and Citizenship Policy
- Immigration and multiculturalism in Canada and Germany
- Immigration and party politics in Canada
- Immigration in Germany
- International Migration
- Nationalism
- Politics in Greece
Office: 416-208-4813
Home: 416-778-7259
Mobile: 416-346-8067
Languages (in addition to English): English,Greek, Modern (1453-),German
Website
Email: t.triadafilopoulos@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Philip Oreopoulos
Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Behavioural economics
- Economics of education
- Education policy and program evaluation
- Labour economics
- Research design and methods
Office: 416-978-4407
Mobile: 416-904-6736
Website
Email: oreo@economics.utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Randy Besco
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian government and politics
- Elections
- How political polls dictate voter behaviour
- Public opinion
- Race & immigration
Office: 905-569-4377
Website
Email: randy.besco@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Robert Bothwell
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Atomic history
- Canada-US relations
- Canadian foreign relations
- Canadian politics and political history
Office: 416-946-8948 Ext. 68948
Languages (in addition to English): English,French,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: bothwell@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Teresa Kramarz
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Environment and politics
- International Organizations (UN and World Bank especially)
Office: 416-946-8825
Languages (in addition to English): French,Spanish - Latin American,English
Website
Email: teresa.kramarz@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Tina J. Park
Executive Director and Co-Founder, Responsibility to Protect Project
Junior Fellow, Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Bilateral relationship between Canada and Korea
- Canadian foreign policy
- Canadian foreign policy post-COVID-19
- Canadian-Korean relations
- Feminism & diversity in the election race
- Inter-Korean relations & ROK-US relations
- NATO & Asia-Pacific security
- NATO & Ukraine
- North Korean nuclear programme & diplomacy & six party talks
- Responsibility to Protect
- South Korean politics & economy
- Syria
- UN
Office: 416-828-2361
Website
Email: park.tina@gmail.com
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Trudo Lemmens
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Conflict of interest in medicine
Office: 416-978-4201
Home: 416-964-9482
Languages (in addition to English): English,French,Dutch; Flemish,German
Website
Email: trudo.lemmens@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Walter Callaghan
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Medical cannabis
- Military masculinity
- Military sexual trauma
- Moral injury
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Shared trauma of civilians
- Veterans
Office: N/A
Email: w.callaghan@mail.utoronto.ca
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