U.S. Politics
Alexandra Rahr
Bissell-Heyd Lecturer in American Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- COVID-19 – Pandemics as a natural disaster from a cultural perspective
- Natural disasters in American History
Office: n/a
Email: alexandra.rahr@utoronto.ca
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Eric Merkley
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Website
Email: eric.merkley@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Megan Boler
Professor, Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Algorithms and bias
- Cambridge Analytica/Facebook
- Digital activism and social media
- Emotion and popular culture
- Emotion in politics
- Fake news
- Media representation of gender and women
- Media: US military
- Philosophies of education
- Post-truth politics
- Propaganda
- Propaganda and pedagogies
- Race in popular culture
- Role of social media in the election
- Social implications of technology
- Social justice in political and cultural contexts
- Social media and youth
Office: 416-978-1231
Home: 416-604-8970
Email: megan.boler@utoronto.ca
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Renan Levine
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-208-2651
Home: 416-848-1871
Website
Email: renan.levine@utoronto.ca
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Robert Bothwell
Professor of International Relations
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canada-US relations
- Canadian foreign relations
- Canadian politics and political history
- COVID-19 – Canada’s history of border measures
- Impact of Ruth Bader Ginsburg death on election
- Trump & Trudeau on border control measures
Office: n/a
Languages (in addition to English): French, Formal Spanish
Email: bothwell@chass.utoronto.ca
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Ruth Marshall
Associate Professor, Department of the Study of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Citizenship state politics and violence in Nigeria & Cote d’Ivoire
- Continental philosophy of religion
- Continental political philosophy
- Pentecostalism radical reformist Islam and religious revival in the Global South
- Post-colonial theory African Studies
- Religion and Politics
- Religious conflict and violence
- Secularism and democratic theory
- United States Politics – the Religious Right since the 1970s; the rise of the alt-right; the MAGA movement; QAnon; the Trump years and party politics
- United States Religion – evangelicals and race; White Christian nationalism; theocracy; dominionism; reconstructionism; Christian cults; QAnon and its Christian roots and networks
Office: 416-978-0241
Email: ruth.marshall@utoronto.ca
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Ryan Hurl
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- American political development
- American political thought
- Comparative constitutional law
- History of Political Thought
- Judicial politics
Office: 416-978-3334
Email: rhurl@utsc.utoronto.ca
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Shari Eli
Professor, Economics, Faculty of Arts and Science
Cross-appointed, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy; History Department
Affiliated with National Bureau of Economic Research; Visiting Faculty, Economics, Yale University
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- 20th century labor history in the U.S.
- Canadian economic history
- Cash transfer programs
- Intergenerational mobility and inequality
- Pension systems
- Research using family trees (genealogy)
- U.S. social welfare history
- Universal basic income
- Welfare
Office: 416-946-7630
Mobile: 437-239-1159
Website
Email: shari.eli@utoronto.ca
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