Professor Cesi Cruz recieves Best Conference Paper Award from APSA
A paper by Professor Cesi Cruz, with two co-authors, entitled “Village Social Network Structures and Electoral Competition,” has won APSA’s Political Network Section’s Best Conference Paper Award!
Professor Richard Johnston receives Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Richard Johnston has been named the winner of the Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Politics Section of American Political Science Association (APSA). The Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes scholarship and leadership in bringing the study of Canadian Politics to the international political science community.
PhD Grad Afsoun Afsahi Offered Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Germany
UBC Political Science PhD graduate Afsoun Afsahi, has been offered a Post-doctoral Fellowship with the Goethe-Universität in Germany. Congratulations!
PhD Student Miriam Matejova Publishes New Book of Stories on Canadian Immigrant Women
In Wherever I Find Myself, the third anthology in the Canadian women series, edited by Matejova, over twenty Canadian immigrant women from a variety of ethnicities and intersecting identities share their diverse and personal stories. The stories touch on much more than the discussion of diversity in Canada, and rather detail the “emotionally complex journey” of immigrant women, including battling feelings of loneliness and isolation.
New Article: “Role of Social Group Membership on Classroom Participation” by PhD Candidates Yaylaci and Beauvais
In a new article in PS: Political Science and Politics, entitled “The Role of Social Group Membership on Classroom Participation”, UBC Political Science PhD Candidates Şule Yaylaci and Edana Beauvais analyze how social group membership influences classroom participation, and offer strategies for how instructors may increase student participation in the classroom.
Congratulations to Augustín Goenaga – Fellowship, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters
Augustín Goenaga (PhD 2015) has been awarded a fellowship from the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, providing him with another 3-5 years of funding at Lund University, allowing him to devote 80 per cent of his time to his research.
Congratulations to Danika Hammond on being named a Wesbrook Scholar
Congratulations to Danika Hammond on being selected as a 2017 Wesbrook Scholar, one of UBC’s most prestigious designations, awarded annually to 20 senior students with outstanding academic performance, leadership, and involvement in student and community activities.
Congratulations to Anastasia Shesterinina on her new tenure-track position
Congratulations to Anastasia Shesterinina (PhD 2014) on her new tenure-track position of Lecturer in Politics/International Politics at the Department of Politics, at the University of Sheffield in the UK! She will begin her new position in January 2017.
Şule Yaylacı, UBC-Yale Fox Fellow
Political Science PhD Candidate, Şule Yaylacı, was recently awarded the UBC-Yale Fox Fellowship, and is now at Yale, where she will be wrapping up and disseminating her PhD research, and engaging in the academic community at one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
Coulthard’s ‘Red Skin, White Masks’ Wins Top Political Theory Book Award
Glen Coulthard’s, Red Skin, White Masks (University of Minnesota Press, 2014) won the Canadian Political Science Association’s C.B. Macpherson Award for Best Political Theory Book published in English or French in 2014 or 2015.