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.
Congratulations Richard!
Previous winners include:
2016 Keith Banting, Queen’s University
2015 Lawrence LeDuc, University of Toronto
2014 Sylvia Bashevkin, University of Toronto
2014 Charles Doran Sr., Johns Hopkins University
2013 R. Kenneth Carty, University of British Columbia
2012 Peter Russell, University of Toronto
2011 Allan Kornberg, Duke University
2011 John Courtney, University of Saskatchewan
2010 Jill Vickers, Carleton University
Richard Johnston (PhD Stanford) holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Opinion, Elections, and Representation. He has also taught at the University of Toronto, the California Institute of Technology, Harvard University (Mackenzie King chair, 1994-5), and the University of Pennsylvania. He has held visiting fellowships at Queen’s University at Kingston, the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), and the Australian National University. From 2009 to 2012, he was a Marie Curie Research Fellow attached to the European University Institute.
