Federal Election
Andrew McDougall
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science at U of T Scarborough
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Aboriginal politics and the politics of the High North
- Canada’s relationship with Beijing
- Canadian federalism and intergovernmental relations
- Canadian government & relationship with Royal Family
- Constitutional law
- Provincial politics
Office: 416-432-3813
Email: andrew.mcdougall@utoronto.ca
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Angela Mashford-Pringle
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Bi-culturedness
- COVID-19 impact on racialized groups
- Cultural Safety for non-Indigenous people
- Indigenous data sovereignty
- Indigenous early childhood development and education
- Indigenous food systems
- Indigenous health and education
- Indigenous health policy in Canada and the United States
- Indigenous land-based learning and pedagogies
- Indigenous self-determination and self-governance – specifically in health systems
- Mental health & addictions support for remote communities
- Self-governance
Office: 416-978-8771
Email: angela.mashford.pringle@utoronto.ca
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Aurel Braun
Professor of Political Science
Affiliated Faculty, The Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canada-U.S.-Russia relations
- Conflict resolution
- International law
- Middle East conflicts
- NATO and strategic issues
- Russia/post-Soviet states/ East Europe -- politics
- Strategic studies
Office: 416-946-8952
Home: 416-787-3702
Languages (in addition to English): French, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian
Email: abraun@chass.utoronto.ca
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Bernard Dickens
Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-4849
Home: 416-967-0687
Email: bernard.dickens@utoronto.ca
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Dan Trefler
Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
Email: dtrefler@rotman.utoronto.ca
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Elizabeth Dhuey
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Economics of K-12 education
- Kindergarten
- Middle/Junior High School
- Principals
- Redshirting
- Special Education Finance
Office: 416-208-2687
Email: elizabeth.dhuey@utoronto.ca
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Enid Slack
Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance
- Campus
- 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
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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
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Ito Peng
Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor,School of Public Policy and Governance, Faculty of Arts and Science
Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy
- Campus
- 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
Email: ito.peng@utoronto.ca
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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
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Jessica Green
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science
Associate Professor, School of the Environment
- 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
Email: jf.green@utoronto.ca
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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
Email: linda.white@utoronto.ca
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Lynette Ong
Professor of Political Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Authoritarian politics
- Canada-China relations
- COVID-19 impact on Chinese culture and cuisine
- COVID-19 outbreak impact on trade & international relations
- Human rights in China
- International stance on China & where Canada stands
- Political economy of China
- Politics and political economy in China
- Politics in Singapore and Malaysia
- Politics of China
- Protest and state repression in China
- Urbanization in China
Office: 416-978-6804
Languages (in addition to English): Mandarin, Chinese
Website
Email: lynette.ong@utoronto.ca
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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: 416-978-3286
Home: 416-536-5788
Email: mark.kingwell@utoronto.ca
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Matthew Hoffmann
Professor of Political Science
Co-director of Environmental Governance Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
- Campus
- Faculty
- 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
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Nelson Wiseman
Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canada & the monarchy
- Canadian foreign policy
- Canadian government and politics
- Elections
- Political parties and leaders
- Provincial politics
- Voting
Office: 416.922-5595 call or email do not text
Email: nelson.wiseman@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone
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Peter Dungan
Associate Professor Emeritus of Economic Analysis and Policy
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
Email: pdungan@rotman.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone
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Phil Triadafilopoulos
Associate Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Governance
- Campus
- Faculty
- 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): Greek, German
Website
Email: t.triadafilopoulos@utoronto.ca
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Philip Oreopoulos
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- 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
Email: philip.oreopoulos@utoronto.ca
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Randy Besco
Assistant 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
Email: randy.besco@utoronto.ca
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Robert Bothwell
Professor Emeritus of International Relations
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Atomic history
- Canada-US relations
- Canadian foreign relations
- Canadian politics and political history
Office: n/a
Languages (in addition to English): French, Formal Spanish in writing
Email: bothwell@chass.utoronto.ca
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Teresa Kramarz
Director, Munk One
Co-Director, Environmental Governance Lab
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-946-8825
Languages (in addition to English): Spanish, some French
Website
Email: teresa.kramarz@utoronto.ca
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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
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Trudo Lemmens
Professor, Faculty of Law
Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Commercialization of medical research
- Conflict of interest in medicine
- End-of-life law-- Medical Assistance in Dying
- Ethical issues of genetic and medical technologies
- Health and Human Rights
- Health law and policy
- Opioid crisis
- Pharmaceutical Law and Governance
- Regulation of research
- Regulation of the Health Professions
Office: 416-978-4201
Home: 416-964-9482
Languages (in addition to English): French, Dutch
Email: trudo.lemmens@utoronto.ca
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