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Political Science

Mel Cappe

Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science

Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Areas of Expertise

  • Electoral reform – what are the issues
  • Former High Commissioner to the UK
  • Governance
  • Government
  • Institutions
  • People
  • United Kingdom

Office: 416-978-2875
Mobile: 647-981-7666
Languages: French
Email: mel.cappe@utoronto.ca
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Michael Donnelly

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian views on immigration and refugees
  • Ethnic Politics
  • European politics
  • Immigration
  • Public opinion
  • Social policy

Office: 1 416-978-0344
Languages: English
Website
Email: mj.donnelly@utoronto.ca
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Nancy Bertoldi

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Civil disobedience
  • Global Civil Disobedience
  • Global Inequality
  • Global Justice
  • Global order
  • Global Pluralism
  • Global Poverty
  • Human rights
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Sovereignty

Office: 416-946-0181
Languages: English
Website
Email: nancy.bertoldi@chass.utoronto.ca
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Naomi Adiv

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Community development
  • Public space
  • Swimming and bathing
  • Urban geography

Office: N/A
Languages: Spanish - Latin American,Hebrew
Website
Email: naomi.adiv@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nelson Wiseman

Professor Emeritus

Nelson Wiseman

Areas of Expertise

  • Canada in the world
  • Canada’s political parties and leaders
  • Canadian politics and policy
  • Elections and Voting
  • Provincial politics

Office: 416.922-5595 call or email do not text
Email: nelson.wiseman@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Paul Kingston

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Historical Institutionalism
  • Political Economy of the Middle East

Office: (416) 287-7305
Website
Email: kingston@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Pauline Beange

Sessional Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian government and politics
  • Elections Canada
  • Federalism and public policy
  • Party finance Canada US Britain

Office: 905 887 9355
Mobile: 647 209 0111
Email: pauline.beange@utoronto.ca
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Peter Loewen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Citizens' perceptions of elected officials
  • Future of democratic societies
  • Policy; elections and representation
  • Political polarization

Office: 416-978-5120
Languages: English
Website
Email: peter.loewen@utoronto.ca
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Peter Solomon

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Criminal law and procedure in the post-soviet world
  • Criminal policy and policy-making
  • Judicial and legal reform in contemporary Russia and Ukraine
  • Law and courts in authoritarian and transitional states
  • Politics of Criminal Justice in Various Countries
  • Russian legal system
  • Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics

Office: 416-946-8959
Website
Email: peter.solomon@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Phil Triadafilopoulos

Professor

Phil Triadafilopoulos

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian public policy
  • Immigration and Citizenship Policy
  • Immigration and multiculturalism in Canada and Germany
  • Immigration and party politics in Canada
  • Immigration in Germany
  • International Migration
  • Nationalism
  • Politics in Greece

Office: 416-208-4813
Home: 416-778-7259
Mobile: 416-346-8067
Languages: English,Greek, Modern (1453-),German
Website
Email: t.triadafilopoulos@utoronto.ca
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Randall Hansen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Citizenship
  • European politics
  • Forced migration
  • Immigration
  • Refugees

Office: N/A
Home: 416-978-4160
Languages: English
Website
Email: r.hansen@utoronto.ca
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Randy Besco

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian government and politics
  • Elections
  • How political polls dictate voter behaviour
  • Public opinion
  • Race & immigration

Office: 905-569-4377
Website
Email: randy.besco@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Renan Levine

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • American politics
  • Israeli politics
  • Political strategy
  • Voting and elections

Office: (416) 208-2651
Home: 416-848-1871
Website
Email: renan.levine@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Richard Sandbrook

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Counter-Hegemonic Globalization
  • Development Strategies of the Left in the Global South
  • Evolution and Politics of the Neoliberal Development Paradigm

Office: 416-978-8264
Home: 416-967-1265
Mobile: 647-622-9539
Languages: English
Website
Email: richard.sandbrook@utoronto.ca
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Rodney Haddow

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian social
  • Economic development policy in a comparative context
  • Labour market

Office: 416-978-8710
Languages: English,French,German
Website
Email: r.haddow@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ron Deibert

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Exercise of Power in Cyberspace
  • Internet Censorship and Surveillance

Office: 416-946-8916
Languages: English
Website
Email: r.deibert@utoronto.ca
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Ryan Hurl

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • American political development
  • American political thought
  • Comparative constitutional law
  • History of Political Thought
  • Judicial politics

Office: 416-978-3334
Website
Email: ryan.hurl@utoronto.ca
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Semra Sevi

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Elections
  • Experiments
  • Gender & Politics
  • Political Science
  • Representation
  • Voting

Office: N/A
Website
Email: semra.sevi@utoronto.ca

Seva Gunitsky

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Democratization
  • Russia and Eastern Europe
  • U.S. foreign policy

Office: 416-946-8959
Languages: English,Russian
Website
Email: s.gunitsky@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online

Stefan Renckens

Associate Professor

Stefan Renckens

Areas of Expertise

  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Eco-certification
  • Ecolabels
  • European environmental policy
  • Private environmental rule-making (related to fisheries, fair trade, organic agriculture, biofuels)

Office: 416-287-7300
Languages: English,Dutch; Flemish
Website
Email: stefan.renckens@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Steven Bernstein

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Global environmental politics
  • International organizations and global governance
  • International political economy
  • International relations
  • Internationalization of public policy

Office: N/A
Website
Email: steven.bernstein@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Wendy Wong

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Digital activism
  • Emerging technologies/Big Data/AI
  • Global civil society
  • Global governance
  • Human rights
  • Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
  • Politics of organization
  • Social movements
  • Tech companies

Office: 416-946-8703
Languages: English
Website
Email: wendyh.wong@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online