Political Science
Aisha Ahmad
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-287-7321
Email: aisha.ahmad@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Andrew Stark
Professor of Strategic Management
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-3654
Website
Email: stark@rotman.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Antoinette Handley
Associate Professor and Chair (she/her)(on leave 2020-2021), Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science
Vice-Dean of Graduate Education, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Business-government relations in Africa
- HIV/AIDS
- Southern Africa
- The political economy of development
Office: 416-946-0181
Email: a.handley@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Arnd Jurgensen
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Mississauga
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-516-1504
Email: arnd.jurgensen@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Aurel Braun
Professor of Political Science
Affiliated Faculty, The Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Afghanistan: Will the U.S. return in the future?; Concerns of Taliban resurgence
- Conflict resolution
- International law
- Iran plan crash (generalist perspective)
- 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: French, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian
Email: abraun@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Carla Norrlof
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Email: carla.norrlof@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Dan Breznitz
Co-Director, Innovation Policy Lab
Munk Chair, Innovation Studies
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- COVID-19 – Role of innovation and impact on global production
- Economic policy
- Innovation policy
- Notion of a fourth industrial revolution
- Post-COVID 19 economic security
- Rethinking global production supply chains & manufacturing
- Trade (Trans-Pacific Partnership)
Office: 416-946-0584
Email: dan.breznitz@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
David Rayside
Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science
Director Emeritus, Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Faith and politics in Canada and U.S.
- Gay (homosexual)/lesbian/bisexual/transgender rights and activism (Canada; US; Europe)
- LGBTQ
- Muslim communities in North America
- Public school recognition of sexual diversity
- Religious right organizing in Canada
- Same-sex relationship recognition
Office: N/A
Mobile: 647-973-8087
Website
Email: david.rayside@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
David Wright
Kenneth and Patricia Taylor Distinguished Visiting Professor of Foreign Affairs, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-585-4434
Email: d.wright@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Emanuel Adler
Professor of Political Science
Andrea & Charles Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-946-8931
Home: 416-934-0880
Languages: Hebrew, Spanish
Website
Email: emanuel.adler@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Emile Dirks
PhD Candidate
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Drug policy in China
- Human rights in China
- Policing and detention in China
- Politics of People's Republic of China
- State surveillance in China
Office: N/A
Languages: Mandarin Chinese
Website
Email: emile.dirks@mail.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online
Eric Merkley
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Website
Email: eric.merkley@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Grace Skogstad
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough
Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian federalism
- Canadian politics
- COVID-19 Impact on the public perception of farmers
- COVID-19 Strain on the farming industry
- EU-US agricultural trade conflicts
- Mexico-Canada agreement for temporary farm workers
- Politics of biofuels policies in Canada
- Politics of biofuels policies in the European Union
- Politics of biofuels policies in the United States
- Politics of Canadian agricultural policy
- Politics of genetically modified food
Office: 416-978-6156
Home: 416-964-2827
Email: skogstad@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Harald Bathelt
Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- COVID-19 – Economic impact of travel restrictions & border closures
- Economic geography
- Economic globalization and international trade fairs
- Economic/Technology/Innovation policy
- German political economy
- Regional economic development and industry clusters
- Regional/National innovation and technological change
Office: 416-946-0183
Home: 416-597-2099
Languages: German
Website
Email: harald.bathelt@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Janice Stein
Founding Director, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management, Department of Political Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Border closures
- Conflict management and resolution
- Global order
- Iran
- Israel-Palestine violence: U.S. & international response
- Middle East
- UN comments on war
Office: 416-946-8908
Languages: French
Email: j.stein@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
John Kirton
Co-Founder and Director, G7 Research Group
Founder and Co-Director, G20 Research Group
Interim Director International Relations Program
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- BRICS
- Canadian foreign policy
- Foreign policy decision making
- G20
- G8
- Global governance
- Global health diplomacy
- International finance and trade
- International relations
Office: 416-946-8953
Website
Email: john.kirton@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Joseph Wong
Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, International Student Experience,
Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation,
Professor of Political Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-7955
Website
Email: joe.wong@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Judith Teichman
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-government sentiment
- Argentine politics
- Chilean politics
- Drug trade
- Economic policy
- Inequality
- Latin American politics
- Mexican politics
- Poverty
- Social policy
- Violence in Mexico
Office: 416-946-8914
Languages: Spanish
Email: judith.teichman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Kanta Murali
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Comparative Political Economy of Development
- Ethnicity and Economic Development
- Indian politics
- Inequality
- Labour policy
- Politics of development and economic policy in India
- State Capacity
- State-Business Relations
Office: 416-978-8492
Mobile: 647-964-1870
Email: kanta.murali@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Larry LeDuc
Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416 926-1300, ext. 3232
Website
Email: leduc@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Linda White
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Governance
- 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
Office: 416-978-2857
Home: 416-769-6159
Mobile: 647-225-9164
Email: lwhite@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Lorraine Weinrib
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Abortion
- Canadian constitutional law (federalism
- Charter
- Comparative constitutional law
- Constitutional litigation
- Euthanasia
- Freedom of expression and religion; equality
- Hate speech
- roles of legislatures
- rule of law
Office: 416-978-5075
Email: l.weinrib@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Louis Pauly
J. Stefan Dupré Distinguished Professor of Political Economy
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-6385
Website
Email: louis.pauly@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Lynette Ong
Associate Professor of Political Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Authoritarian politics
- Canada-China relations
- COVID-19 impact on Chinese culture and cuisine
- COVID-19 outbreak impact on trade & international relations
- COVID-19 U.S.- China tension
- 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: Mandarin, Chinese
Website
Email: lynette.ong@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Margaret Kohn
Professor and Acting Director, Centre for Ethics
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 4163208840
Home: 4163208840
Email: kohn@utsc.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Mark Manger
Associate Professor of Political Economy and Global Affairs,
Director, Master of Global Affairs Program
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- International monetary and financial policy
- Japan (economy and politics)
- Macroeconomic policy
- Political economy of Japan
- Trade agreements
- Trade and investment
- Uncharted territory of COVID-19 economic impact
Office: 416-946-8927
Mobile: 416-877-6236
Languages: German, Spanish, French, Japanese
Website
Email: mark.manger@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Mel Cappe
Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor, School of Public Policy and Governance
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Electoral reform – what are the issues
- Former High Commissioner to the UK; Johnson in ICU (cannot speak to diagnosis)
- Government
- United Kingdom
Office: 416-978-2875
Mobile: 647-981-7666
Languages: French
Email: mel.cappe@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Melissa Williams
Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science
Founding Director, Centre for Ethics
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-8220
Home: 416-466-1703
Languages: Some French
Email: melissa.williams@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online