Gender in politics

  Key Publications: 

• “Gender difference in willingness and capacity for deliberation.” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society. 2020

Courses this year: POLI 521A Politics of Intersectionality

See Afsoun Afsahi's full profile here   

  Key Publications: 

• Sexual Justice/Cultural Justice, 2006.
• Politics and Feminism, 1999.
• Gender, Diversity and Organizational Change: The Boy Scouts vs. Girl Scouts of America’, Perspectives on Politics, Special Issue on Gender, 2010.
• ‘Lactating Mothers in Parliament: Beyond Accommodation’, in Bittner and Thomas, Eds. Mothers and Others: The Role of Parenthood in Politics.  2017.

See Barbara Arneil's full profile here   

Key Publications: 

• “Activists, Parties, and the Expansion of Trans Rights in Bolivia,” Comparative Politics, 2024.
• “Emprendedores reticientes, informalidad, y microemprendimiento en la población transgénero y transexual de Bolivia (Reticent entrepreneurs, informality, and micro businesses in Bolivian transgender communities),” Latin American Journal of Economic Development, Forthcoming.
• National Institutes of Health Ending the HIV Epidemic, PASSPORT Study, PI.

See Calla Hummel's full profile here   

  Key Publications: 

• Courting Gender Justice: Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights , 2019.
• “Seeking better judgment: LGBT discrimination cases in Russia and at the European Court of Human Rights,” The International Journal of Human Rights, 2019.
• “Mixed signals: What Putin says about gender equality,” Post-Soviet Affairs, 2021.
• "Russian Women's Activism: Grassroots Persistence in the Face of Challenges," Women's Movements in the Global Era (Amrita Basu, ed.), 2018.

Current research projects:

• Activists in International Courts (SSHRC Partnership Development Grant)
• Everyday Activism in Russia (SSHRC Insight Grant)

See Lisa Sundstrom's full profile here   

  Key Publications: 

• “The Gender Gap in Attitudes Toward Workplace Technological Change.” Socioeconomic Review, 2024.
• “Women and the Politics of Technological Change in the Workplace.” SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2022-2024.

See Sophie Borwein's full profile here.  

Key Publications: 

• “Gendered Jobs: Integrating Immigrants versus Controlling Immigration in the European Union.” Politics and Gender, 2013.
• “The Radical Right Gender Gap.” Comparative Political Studies, 2004. Migration Policy and Politics: The European Union, Western Europe, Immigration Control, Immigrant Integration.
• Immigration in the 21st Century: The Comparative Politics of Immigration Policy. Routledge Press, 2020.
• “Immigrant Integration.” In Introduction to International Migration: Population Movements in the 21st Century, 2021.
• “Immigration and Immigrant Integration in Europe: Empirical Research” Annual Review of Political Science, 2007 (volume 10).

Courses: POLI 333M-001 - Issues in Comparative Politics: Western European Politics

See Terri Givens' full profile here.  

Key Publications: 

• "Children ‘born of war’: a role for fathers?", International Affairs, 2020
• "Pushing the conversation forward: The intersections of sexuality and gender identity in transitional justice", The International Journal of Human Rights, 2020
• "‘It’s Like Giving Birth to This Girl Again’: Social Repair and Motherhood After Conflict-Related Sexual Violence." Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 2022
• "Vulnerable bodies: Gender, the UN and the global refugee crisis", Routledge, 2017.
• "Forced marriage as a political project: Sexual rules and relations in the Lord’s Resistance Army", Journal of Peace Research, 2014
• "Relationality, culpability and consent in wartime: men’s experiences of forced marriage", International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2017
• "Buried in the heart: Women, complex victimhood and the war in northern Uganda", Cambridge University Press, 2017.
• "Securing the future: Transformative justice and children ‘born of war’", Social & Legal Studies 30, 2021

Grants: 

• Department of National Defence, MINDS Grant, co-founder and former director Research Network on Women, Peace and Security (2021-2024)
• SSHRC Insight, Fatherhood and Children born of war (2017-2022)
• SSHRC PG, co-applicant, Conjugal Slavery in War (2015-2020)

See Erin Baines' full profile here.