Political Science Current Students
Current Students
Student Achievements
The Political Science Department is pleased to acknowledge the following student achievements:
Congratulations to the 2015-2016 Class on the presentation of their Honours Thesis research. Here is a list of the presenters:
- Iara Aguilera-Riera: The Venezuelan Democratization: the Influence of Presidents and Parties in Shaping Venezuelan Politics
- Isalean Phillip: What happens when Race and Gender overlap? Investigating what "intersectionality"means and what it does
- Matt Gaul: The International Criminal Court: Domesticating War in the Absence of Politics?
- Emily Prosser: The Heart of a Nation: How Mass Refugee Resettlements Problematize Canadian Identity through Media Discourse
In the photo: Dr. Marc Doucet, Matt Gaul, Iara Aguilera-Riera, Emily Prosser, Isalean Phillip, Dr. Lyuboz Zhyznomirska
Congratulations to the 2014-2015 Class on the presentation of their Honours Thesis research. Here is a list of the presenters:
- Tatiane Camargo: The Rising Importance of Transnational Refugees: Assessing the Contradictions of Current Solutions
- Sean Hanlon: Social Movements and the Interventionist Vision of Sport
- Callee Luddington: Climate Discourses and Communities in Canada and Norway: The Anti-Silent Spring
- Michael Smith: Justice Sector Reform in Afghanistan: A Strained Relationship between the Local and the International
In the photo: Dr. Marc Doucet, Michael Smith, Sean Hanlon, Callee Luddington, Tatiane Camargo
Congratulations to the 2013-2014 Class on the presentation of their Honours Thesis research. Here is a list of the presenters:
- Tobias Bechtold-Byrne: The Shifting Global Power Dynamic: A Realist Analysis of Russian and American Foreign Policy in Syria
- Rebecca Espirito Santo: Arctic Governance: More Than Melting Ice
- Emma Gillis: A Thorny Path to EU Membership: Is Turkey's Religions Identity Compatible with European Secularism?
- Kit Goodridge: Disenfranchised or Misunderstood? Why Youth in Great Britain Should Still Matter to the Labour Party
- Kaitlyn Sobey: Election Mandate to Governance: Harper and Accountability Policy
- Erin MacIntosh: The Politics of Peace Education in Northern Ireland
- Kathleen O'Brien: "We Were Never Asked": Experiences in International Policing and Security Sector Reform
- James Patriquin: The Internet as a Critical Juncture: An Existential Threat Facing the Nation-State
- Brad Prest: Compromising Canadian Privacy for Strengthened Prosperity and Security
- Adrienne Stinson: The Politics of Love: Spousal Migration, Marketization and Marriage Fraud in the Canadian Context
Congratulations to the 2012-2013 Class on the presentation of their Honours Thesis research. Here is a list of the presenters:
- Rumbidzai Chimhanda: The Inescapable Lure of Beauty's Paradox
- Davina Ebbeson: Converging Policies: A Scalar Analysis of Commodification and the Issues of Immigration Policy Convergence between Canada and Japan
- Joanna Fensome: The United Nations Transitional Authority and the Consolidation of Authoritarianism in Cambodia: Limitations of an inflexible mandate
- Katie Grant: Memorializing Maze Long Kesh: Inserting multiplicity of the Self into a dyadic narrative
- Adam Mattinson: Regime preference in the free market: A comparative study of inward foreign direct investment in India and China
- Conor Perry: Power to the "People": The Radical Right as a Political Movement in Western Europe
- Laird Smith: Cybersecurity: Aligning Threat and Response
- Jamie Wilkinson: Sex Trafficking in Cambodia: Assessing the Vulnerabilities
Congratulations to the 2011-2012 Class on the presentation of their Honours Thesis research. Here is a list of the presenters:
- Ashley Dawson: The Political Nature of Canadian Electoral Boundary Redistributions: A Case Study of Nova Scotia
- Alison Macdonald: The Failed Promise of Women's Rights in Afghanistan: Why "Saving Women" is Problematic
- Michael Murphy: Distributism: An Alternative to Capitalism and Socialism
- Kristina Stage: The Economification of Immigration Policy: The Reduction of People and Success to Profitability
- Victoria Constance Versteeg: Strategic Error? The Incompatibilty of Abroginal Women's Identity Claims and Contemporary Neoliberalism
- Guy Wellard: Mad or Rational Dog of the Middle East? The Gadhafi Regime and Terrorism as Praxis
