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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Kent Roach
Professor, Faculty of Law
Prichard Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-terrorism law
- Arrest of rioters
- Constitutional law
- Criminal justice
- Domestic terrorism
- Judicial activism
- Policing
Office: 416-946-5645
Email: kent.roach@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online
Megan Boler
Professor, Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Algorithms and bias
- Cambridge Analytica
- Digital activism and social media
- Emotion and popular culture
- Fake news
- How Gen Z is using TikTok to engage voters & conversation
- Media representation of gender and women
- Media: US military
- NRA and Parkland youth movement
- Philosophies of education
- Post-truth politics
- Propaganda and pedagogies
- Race in popular culture
- Role of social media in the election
- Russian interference in U.S. election
- Social implications of technology
- Social justice in political and cultural contexts
- Social media and youth
- Trump and media conflicts
Office: 416-978-1231
Home: 416-604-8970
Email: megan.boler@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
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: French, Formal Spanish
Email: bothwell@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Shari Eli
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- 20th century labor history in the U.S.
- Cash transfer programs
- Pension systems
- U.S. social welfare history
- Universal basic income
- Welfare
Office: 416-901-9993
Mobile: 516-581-1159
Website
Email: shari.eli@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online