Juliet Johnson is the recipient of the 2024 President鈥檚 Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the category of Full Professor.
President Saini said that the selection committee was particularly impressed by Juliet's outstanding course evaluations, her courage in experimenting and innovating in the classroom, her use of multiple pedagogical strategies, and the regular rebuilding of courses to fit the shifting political realities. Students in particular praise Professor Johnson's engaging courses and her dedication to providing support and mentoring beyond their graduation. Students also noted what a dedicated teacher she is, that her lectures are informative and engaging, and that Professor Johnson鈥檚 energy and enthusiasm were infectious. President Saini praised Juliet for having distinguished herself and for honouring her Faculty by outstanding dedication to student learning.
脡ric B茅langer听has been appointed one of the听, together with Mireille Lalancette (Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Trois-Rivi猫res). Together, they will dedicate their research to the study of Democracy, Living Together and Common Values 鈥嬧�媔n Quebec (Chaire de recherche du Qu茅bec sur la d茅mocratie, le vivre ensemble et les valeurs communes au Qu茅bec). The Chairs are offered on the basis of scientific excellence and based on the recommendations of a peer review committee. R茅mi Quirion, the Chief scientist of Quebec, noted that the work by the two chairs will shed important light on the specificities of our society by exploring the themes of Quebec鈥檚 contemporary history, as well as democracy, living together and the values 鈥嬧�媠hared in Quebec.听
T.V. Paul has been awarded the听 International Security Studies Distinguished Scholar Award for 2025.听The Distinguished Scholar Award is given for life achievement in International Security Studies through major contributions to scholarship in the field both via their own research and writing and their mentorship of others.
T.V. Paul听has been appointed a Distinguished Fellow of the for the 2024-2026 term.听APF Canada鈥檚 Distinguished Fellows are subject matter experts in various aspects of Canada-Asia relations and provide us with valuable insight and guidance, participating in dialogues and public events, offering commentary, informing research projects, and responding to domestic and international media requests.
Arash Abizadeh听and听Daniel B茅land have been elected as new members of the .听 For more information in the Faculty of Arts Newsletter.
Arash Abizadeh is R.B. Angus Professor of Political Science and Associate Member of the Department of Philosophy at 香蕉视频. He received his BA(Hon) from the University of Winnipeg, MPhil from Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and PhD from Harvard. His research focuses on democratic theory; identity, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism; immigration and border control; social and political power; and 17th and 18th century philosophy, especially Hobbes and Rousseau.
Daniel B茅land鈥檚 work has illuminated public policy debates in Canada while reshaping the international scholarship on the role of ideas, policy feedback, territorial politics, and federalism. Widely cited internationally, his work has helped move the study of ideas to the forefront of the international field of comparative public and social policy research.
Leonardo Baccini听has been awarded the听.听听A new initiative in 2024, this award is bestowed annually to ten distinguished reviewers in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the peer review process at the听British Journal of Political Science听(BJPolS).
Tari Ajadi's听dissertation has been recognized by Dalhousie with a , "an annual honour that recognizes dissertations that have made significant and original contributions to the academic community and Canadian society."
T.V. Paul has been recognized by the International Studies Association - Canada with the ISA-Canada Distinguished Scholar Award.听
- Canada Distinguished Scholar Award Committee is thrilled to announce that the 2024 ISA-Canada Distinguished Scholar is Dr. T.V. Paul. Dr. Paul is James McGill Professor of International Relations at 香蕉视频, a former President of ISA, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has published 22 books, 40 journal articles, and 40 book chapters in top presses in the fields of International Security and Peace Studies. His works have fundamentally shaped scholarship on non-use of nuclear weapons, nuclear deterrence, regional stabilization, Indo-Pacific IR, national security, Global IR and peaceful change. Besides his extraordinarily high impact and comprehensive scholarship that extends beyond Canada, the Committee noted the exemplary steps Dr. Paul takes to be inclusive in his scholarship and leadership. Not only has he supervised the work of over 43 graduate students, but the nomination letters also lauded Dr. Paul鈥檚 patience, generosity, advice and willingness to open doors for junior colleagues in the IR discipline, ISA, Canada and around the world. Under his presidency, the ISA initiated a series of reforms that opened the association to a wide range of scholars. It is a befitting tribute that the 2024 ISA-Canada Distinguished Scholar Award is given to him for his lifetime achievements and inclusive scholarship.
Juliet Johnson is a co-winner of this year's Arts Award for Distinction in Research. This award is given annually by Arts to a faculty member who has made outstanding research contributions to their field. The award alternates by year between emerging and senior scholars.听
Debra Thompson, Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies and Associate Professor of Political Science, has won the 2024 H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching from the Faculty of Arts.
Megan Bradley has been awarded the 2023 Best Article Award from the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration (ENMISA) Section of the International Studies Association for her 鈥淐olonial Continuities and Colonial Unknowing in International Migration Management: The International Organization for Migration Reconsidered,鈥� Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 49(1): 22-42.
Jacob Levy,听Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory,听has been named one of eight 听by the University of Glasgow.
Yves Winter's article, "A Government of Creditors: Machiavelli on Genoa, the Bank of San Giorgio, and the Financial Oligarchy" has been awarded the for the best research article published in the 2022 volume of the journal Polity.
Yann Allard-Tremblay, Assistant Professor, has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.听
Yann Allard-Tremblay, a member of the Huron-Wendat First Nation, is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at 香蕉视频. His transdisciplinary research explores the decolonization and Indigenization of political theory. Centering Indigenous lifeways and political practices in his scholarship, he challenges ongoing colonial dynamics in political thought that silence and distort Indigenous views.
Vincent Pouliot, James McGill Professor, has been听selected as the recipient of a听听of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.听The award is valued at 鈧�45,000.
The is granted to some 20 scholars and scientists annually award 鈥渋n recognition of their outstanding accomplishments in research.鈥� In addition, award winners are invited to carry out research projects of their own choice in cooperation with specialist colleagues in Germany.
The听听sponsors distinguished international scientists and scholars irrespectively of their academic discipline or nationality and maintains an international network of academic cooperation and trust.
脡ric B茅langer et Co-auteurs: Jean-Fran莽ois Daoust, Val茅rie-Anne Mah茅o, Richard Nadeau have been awarded the for his book .
Au-del脿 de la perc茅e historique de la Coalition avenir Qu茅bec, l鈥櫭﹍ection qu茅b茅coise de 2018 a annonc茅 un changement plus profond dans les facteurs motivant le comportement 茅lectoral des Qu茅b茅cois. En particulier, la mont茅e d鈥檜n nouveau clivage id茅ologique qui met l鈥檃ccent sur des enjeux 茅mergents li茅s 脿 l鈥檌mmigration et 脿 l鈥檈nvironnement, et qui a permis 脿 la CAQ, mais aussi 脿 Qu茅bec solidaire, de se distinguer face aux deux partis traditionnels que sont le Parti lib茅ral du Qu茅bec et le Parti qu茅b茅cois.
Ce livre r茅pond aux questions que pourraient se poser les 茅tudiants de tous les cycles universitaires, les journalistes couvrant la politique qu茅b茅coise et canadienne, les strat猫ges des partis politiques ainsi que le grand public int茅ress茅 par ces enjeux et leurs implications dans leur vie.
Avec une grande clart茅, voire avec p茅dagogie, cet ouvrage pose les fondements d鈥檜ne discussion que les auteurs engagent avec l鈥檈nsemble de la soci茅t茅 qu茅b茅coise sur un bouleversement de la politique qui se produit dans de nombreux pays.
Maria Popova and Mathieu Lavigne are the winners of the .
Maria Popova,听Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at the Department of Political Science is the winner of the Prize for Established Academics. In choosing her as the winner, the jury underlined her extensive presence in local, national, and international media as an expert on the former Soviet Union in the context of Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine, as well as her knowledge sharing on Twitter in the run-up to the war.
Mathieu Lavigne, PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science is the winner of the Prize for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows. In selecting him as the winner, the jury highlighted his use of social and traditional media to share information on the role of misinformation in the Freedom Convoy and both the Ontario and Quebec elections, and his involvement in consultations with Elections Quebec to help develop their strategy to combat misinformation.
has been named a Distinguished Fellow for the Study of Liberalism and a Free Society at the Institute for Humane Studies.
Jacob Levy is a听recipient of the 2022-2023 Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship (IHS) for the Study of Liberalism and a Free Society, which explores the ongoing relevance of听听within the academy and beyond. IHS Distinguished Fellows share an exemplary record of advancing these principles through their research and public engagement.
Jennifer Welsh, Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security, has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada.
Jennifer M. Welsh (Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security, McGill) is an internationally renowned scholar and public intellectual of armed conflict, civilian protection, humanitarian action, and Canadian foreign policy. She co-founded the interdisciplinary Oxford Institute on Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, served as Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General on the 鈥楻esponsibility to Protect鈥�, and currently co-directs a Canada-wide research network on Women Peace and Security. Welsh鈥檚 award-winning work focuses on how international conflict management and humanitarian efforts can leverage and reinforce those of local actors. Throughout her career, she has built bridges with national and international policymakers and nurtured a new generation of policy-engaged scholars on global security.
Debra Thompson, Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies, has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
Debra Thompson, Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies, is an internationally recognized expert on the comparative politics of race. Her research focuses on the relationships among race, the state, public policy, and inequality in Canada and beyond. She is the author of the award-winning book, The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census (2016) and The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging (2022).
Khalid Medani's book "Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa" (Cambridge) has been selected as a co-recipient of the 2022 award for best book on MENA politics by a senior scholar by the APSA Organized Section on the Middle East and North African Politics.
Leonardo Baccini's article 鈥淕one for Good: Deindustrialization, White Voter Backlash and US Presidential Voting,鈥� co-authored with Stephen Weymouth (APSR)听has won the Michael Wallerstein Best Article Award for the best published article in political economy in a peer-reviewed journal from the APSA Political Economy Organized Section.
Leonardo Baccini's paper co-authored with Lucas Leeman, "Do natural disasters help the environment? How voters respond and what that means", has been recognized by the journal Political Science Research and Methods as the best paper published in that journal in 2022.
Daniel B茅land, James McGill Professor, is the winner of the 2022 Principal's Prize for Public Engagement for Established Academics!听In choosing him as the winner, the jury underlined his extensive presence in local, national and international media, presenting well-informed views about a wide-range of political topics in a thorough and accessible way.
Elisabeth Gidengil has received the 2021 Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award, from the Canadian Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA-CPS). The award annually recognizes a scholar who has made significant contributions through their career to the study of Canadian politics, either through development of political analysis of Canada or through incorporating Canada as a significant case in comparative political analyses.
Juliet Johnson has been elected Vice President/President Elect (2022-2024) of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. See the announcement on the .
Dietlind Stolle, James McGill Professor,听. The RSC's citation reads:听Dietlind Stolle, James McGill Professor of Political Science at 香蕉视频 and former Director of the Inter-University Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship听is internationally acclaimed for her innovative work on how social capital, generalized trust, political participation, and ethnic diversity contribute to a democratic political culture. Her current research generates new insights into support for democratic backsliding in longstanding democracies. Her widely-cited international publications have won several awards. Professor Stolle has also been nationally recognized for her creative approach to teaching.
Maria Popova is the听winner of this year鈥檚 Best Article Prize from the for her article, co-authored with听Daniel J. Beers, 鈥�.鈥澨�Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization听28.1 (2020): 113-142.
Jennifer Welsh,听Canada 150 Research听Chair in Global Governance and Security,听has been elected as an International Honorary Member of the . As announced on April 22, 2021, Welsh, the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at 香蕉视频, is one of听252 new members of the American Academy, in the field of听.听Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honours excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavour to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together 鈥渢o cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.鈥�
Debra Thompson, Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies, is the winner of the category.听听The Prize for Emerging Researchers is given to recognize a researcher who aspires to better connect the work and research of 香蕉视频 with the larger society by engaging with the public and/or media in activities linked to their field of studies, expertise, areas of interest, research and/or teaching.
Yves Winter is听among the 2021-2022 selected members of the听 residential fellows in Princeton.听听Each year, the School invites approximately听twenty-five visiting scholars with various perspectives, methods and topics, providing a space for intellectual debate and mutual enrichment. Scholars are drawn from a wide range of fields, notably political theory, economics, law, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, and literature. Members pursue their own research, and participate in collective activities, including a听weekly seminar听at which on-going work is presented.
Debra Thompson,听Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies,听is the recipient of a new Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies.听听Tier 2 Chairs, valued at $100,000 annually for five years and renewable only once, are for exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field.
Daniel Douek wins the听.听He has been teaching at McGill since 2015.听A specialist in African Politics, Daniel has taught well over 5,000 McGill students to date. Although he teaches many of the largest courses in the department, including introductory courses of more than 600 students, Douek is a favourite among students. His course evaluations are consistently among the highest in the Department and among Poli Sci students a 鈥淒ouek class鈥� is code for a great class.
Christa Scholtz and former McGill student Maryna Polataiko won the in the annual Canadian Journal of Law and Society best article competition for their article (2019) 34(3): 393-415.
Dietlind Stolle is the winner of the 2019-2020 Arts Award for Distinction in Research.听 The Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) in the Faculty of Arts presents this award annually to a faculty member who has made outstanding research contributions to their field. The award alternates between "emerging" and "senior" scholars.
Yves Winter won the听听for the听best book, Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence,听published in English or in French in the field of political theory!
Niccol貌 Machiavelli is the most prominent and notorious theorist of violence in the history of European political thought - prominent, because he is the first to candidly discuss the role of violence in politics; and notorious, because he treats violence as virtue rather than as vice. In this original interpretation, Yves Winter reconstructs Machiavelli's theory of violence and shows how it challenges moral and metaphysical ideas. Winter attributes two central theses to Machiavelli: first, violence is not a generic technology of government but a strategy that tends to correlate with inequality and class conflict; and second, violence is best understood not in terms of conventional notions of law enforcement, coercion, or the proverbial 'last resort', but as performance. Most political violence is effective not because it physically compels another agent who is thus coerced; rather, it produces political effects by appealing to an audience. As such, this book shows how in Machiavelli's world, violence is designed to be perceived, experienced, remembered, and narrated.
Megan Bradley was recently named a William Dawson Scholar and received the 2020 Principal鈥檚 Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers!
McGill鈥檚 William Dawson Scholar Award recognizes scholars poised to become leaders in their fields and are awarded for a five-year term. The Principal鈥檚 Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers was created in 2013 to encourage and celebrate McGill鈥檚 most outstanding early-career researchers, as well as to provide them with an advantage as they apply for external awards by adding a prestigious internal distinction to their list of accomplishments. The Office of the Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations) awards up to three of these prizes on an annual basis.
Manuel Bal谩n is the 2019 recipient of the Principal鈥檚 Prize for Excellence in Teaching at the Assistant Professor level. Each year the University makes one award to a faculty member at each seniority level in recognition of outstanding teaching performance.
Juliet Johnson has been chosen as a Fellow of the , in 2019, elected by her peers for outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievements. Recognition by the RSC is the highest honour an individual can achieve in the Arts, Social Sciences and Sciences.
Juliet Johnson conducts internationally acclaimed research in two fields: international political economy, and memory and commemoration. Using a range of methods, she has explored the transformation of post-communist financial systems, central bank learning and the rise of financial nationalism after the global financial crisis, and political struggles over the fate of Soviet-era monuments and memorials. She has won numerous international prizes and is Lead Editor of the journal Review of International Political Economy.
Kelly Gordon was awarded the for outstanding scholastic achievement for her dissertation, .听听
Kelly Gordon听was the winner (with co-author Paul Saurette) of the 2019 Lipset Award, from the American Political Science Association, for their book . The award recognizes a book that had made a significant contemporary contribution to the scholarship of Canadian politics in a comparative perspective.
Arash Abizadeh听has won听the 听for his听book .
Yves Winter has been awarded听the 2019 Best First Book Prize from the Foundations of Political Theory organized section of the American Political Science Association听for his听book .
Krzysztof Pelc has won the for his story .听 It was selected out of听over 3,000 entries!
Catherine Lu has won the International Studies Association鈥檚 2019 for her Cambridge volume, Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics.听 The award recognizes a book that excels in originality, significance and rigor in the broadly defined field of international ethics.
Leo Baccini听and听Stephen Weymouth won the 2018 David A. Lake Award for the best paper, entitled 鈥淕one for Good: The Electoral Implications of Plant Closures and Mass Layoffs", presented at the annual meeting of the International Political Economy Society (IPES).
Leo Baccini will be spending the 2019-2020 academic year on a at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute.
Catherine Lu听has been awarded听听in recognition of her Press-published book,听.
The听Yale H. Ferguson Award听is given annually to the book that most advances the vibrancy of international studies as a pluralist discipline.
Out of the 28 nominations received this year, the prize committee unanimously decided to award Lu, noting: 鈥淛ustice and Reconciliation听is a remarkable scholarly achievement. The book takes seriously the challenge of working through a complex field of contested terms and concepts (鈥榡ustice,鈥� 鈥榬econciliation,鈥� etc.), but without subjecting them to depoliticizing, once-and-for-all characterizations, or removing them from their generative historical contexts.鈥�
Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics听has previously received the APSA International History and Politics Section Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award as well as the University of Sussex Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) Theory Prize.
T.V. Paul has been inducted into the 听in 2018, elected听by his听peers for outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievements.听Recognition by the RSC is the highest honour an individual can achieve in the Arts, Social Sciences and Sciences.
T.V. Paul focuses on puzzles and paradoxes in International Relations. A major advocate of eclecticism and building bridges across theoretical paradigms, his works have had a significant impact on the development of policy in the areas of peacebuilding, security planning and nuclear arms control. The concepts he pioneered, 鈥檃symmetric conflicts鈥�, 鈥檚oft balancing鈥�, 鈥榗omplex deterrence鈥�, 鈥榞eostrategic curse鈥�, and 鈥榮tatus accommodation鈥� have become part of the lexicon of international relations theory and foreign policy.
Vincent Pouliot has been inducted into the ,听Class of 2018.听听The College provides the RSC with a multigenerational capacity to help Canada and the world address major challenges and seize new opportunities including those identified in emerging fields.
Vincent Pouliot is nationally and internationally known for his leadership in developing a new approach to the study of world politics, often referred to as the practice turn in International Relations. He is widely recognized as one of the main contributors to this innovative research program, which has now spread across subfields ranging from security studies to global governance through environmental politics, international law, and political economy.
Juliet Johnson won the 2018 David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching. This award acknowledges outstanding contributions to promoting graduate student excellence through supervision and teaching by a faculty member who has听been supervising for 10 years or more.
Catherine Lu has been awarded the 2018 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W.听Schroeder Best Book Award by the International History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association for her book,听 (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics is a study in normative and critical theory of how to conceptualize practices of justice and reconciliation that aim to respond to colonial injustices in international and transnational contexts. Examining cases of colonial war, genocide, forced sexual labour, forcible incorporation, and dispossession, this book highlights the structural injustices involved in colonialism, based on race, class, and gender, and shows that interactional practices of justice and reconciliation have been inadequate in redressing these structural injustices. The book argues that contemporary moral/political projects of justice and reconciliation in response to the persistent structural injustices of a colonial international order entail strategies of decolonization, decentering, and disalienation that go beyond interactional practices of accountability and reparation, beyond victims and perpetrators, and beyond a statist world order.
William Clare Roberts听was awarded the 2017听 for听his book听.听听
"William Clare Robert鈥檚 book is unique in its combination of a close re-reading of Marx鈥檚 Capital through the lens of contextual political theory. He brings to the study of Capital all the verve, passion and erudition of Marx鈥檚 own invocation of classical literature to unmask the hellish realities of contemporary capitalism."
Juliet Johnson was听awarded the 2017听, the 2017 , the 2017 , and the 2017听 for her听book ""听(Cornell University Press, 2016).听The Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies, established in 2008 and sponsored by the听, is awarded annually for听an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography in the previous calendar year. The Ed A Hewett Book Prize, established in 1994 and sponsored by the听, is awarded annually for听an outstanding monograph on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or Eastern Europe, published in the previous year. The Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize, established in 1987 and sponsored by the听听of Columbia University, is awarded annually for听an outstanding monograph dealing with the international relations, foreign policy, or foreign-policy decision-making of any of the states of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe听published the previous year. The Canadian Political Science Association Prize in International Relations is awarded biennially to the best book published, in English or in French, in the field of international relations.
脡ric B茅langer has been inducted as a new member of ,听Class of 2017听by the Royal Society of Canada. As a member, Professor听听B茅langer听will represent the emerging generation of scholarly, scientific and artistic leadership in Canada.听
脡ric B茅langer鈥檚 core research focuses on the motivations that explain voting behaviour. He provides new insights into variations in economic voting and challenges conventional wisdom on the question of issue ownership. His work on the circumstances under which minor parties achieve electoral success and disrupt the normal patterns of party competition in advanced democracies highlights the role the rise of public cynicism towards politics plays worldwide.