Alumnus Nojang Khatami hired to tenure-track position at Fordham University
Congratulations to PhD alumnus Nojang Khatami who has secured a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at Fordham University beginning in September 2023.
Rethinking student transcripts to include skill development
UBC Political Science’s rich transcripts provide an exciting example of how the humble student transcript can become a key way of advancing student skill development.
Congratulations to Alumni Builder Award winners Greg Eidsness and Henry Han
Greg and Henry’s dedication to support students started with the Tri-Mentoring program. Their desire to showcase political science graduates inspired a policy careers boot camp for students. This later led to a course bringing alumni into the classroom each week and is now a model others in Arts are considering.
Honours graduates co-publish new paper on the missing global governance capacity around AI acceleration with Prof. Yves Tiberghien
A new working paper presented by Professor Yves Tiberghien and Honours graduates Danielle Luo and Panthea Pourmalek evaluates pathways to acknowledge the governance gap surrounding digital and AI acceleration.
Prof. Katharina Coleman’s Global Observatory article listed on 2021 Editor Choice’s list
Katharina P. Coleman’s article on where UN peacekeeping is headed looked at “downsizing survivor syndrome” amid the prolonged contraction in UN peace operations.
Prof. Yang-Yang Zhou awarded SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Congratulations to UBC Political Science Professor Yang-Yang Zhou, who was awarded $50,000 through the SSHRC Insight Development Grant for her book project, “Rejecting Coethnicity: The Politics of Migrant Exclusion by Minoritized Citizens.”
Congratulations to Lisa Basil, winner of the Akanksha Stevens Prize
Congratulations to recent graduate Lisa Basil, who was awarded the Akanksha Stevens Prize. This prize goes to an outstanding graduating student in Political Science with one of the highest overall GPAs.
Prof. Carey Doberstein wins Policy & Society 2020 Best Paper Award
Doberstein’s co-authored article, “Understanding inclusion in collaborative governance: a mixed methods approach,” proposes a conceptual model to shape the empirical analysis of what contributes to inclusion in collaborative processes
Prof. Sheryl Lightfoot Elected Member of The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists by Royal Society of Canada
Congratulations to UBC Political Science Professor Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot who was elected as a Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists by the Royal Society of Canada.
Alumna Dr. Aim Sinpeng awarded Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for research on Cyber Repression in Thailand
Congratulations to UBC Political Science alumna Dr. Aim Sinpeng who was awarded the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA). This is the highest level of fellowship that could be awarded to the best early career researchers in Australia.