NEWS & EVENTS
SPEAKER SERIES 2012-2013
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Memorandum
Date: April 29, 2013
To: Munk School Community
Faculty, Staff and Students, Centre for the Study of the United States
From: Janice Stein, Director, Munk School of Global Affairs
Re: Appointment of Director, Centre for the Study of the United States
I am delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Peter Loewen as Director, Centre for the Study of the United States, for a three-year term, effective July 1, 2013.
Peter is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. His work focusses on political behaviour broadly conceived, but especially in the Anglo-American democracies. His work has been published in leading journals in political science, economics, and the general sciences.
Peter received his PhD from the Université de Montréal, and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the University of British Columbia and the University of California San Diego. His research is funded by SSHRC, the European Research Council, and by a Government of Ontario Early Researcher Award.
In addition to his UofT duties, Peter has undertaken extensive public-facing work, including regular opinion and analysis pieces for the Ottawa Citizen, The Globe and Mail, and Toronto Star; electoral engagement work with Vote Compass in partnership with the Wall Street Journal, CBC, and Australian Broadcasting Corporation; and ongoing consulting work with various electoral management bodies.
Peter is widely known as someone who is dynamic, entrepreneurial, and creative. He has a true passion for students, is a strong scholar, and is widely engaged internationally. He has all the qualities of a true leader.
Please join me in congratulating and welcoming Peter to his new role.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank members of the Advisory Committee for their dedication and hard work.
I would also like to commend and thank Professor Elspeth Brown for her outstanding leadership of the Centre for the Study of the United States. Elspeth led the Centre with great distinction and skill, and built its remarkable capacity for deep cross-disciplinary research and conversation. Fortunately, Elspeth will continue to contribute to the Munk community.
Friday, May 10, 2013
OISE, University of Toronto
Symposium:
Black Diaspora Conversations: Gender Sexuality and Queer Thought
Hosted by the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Social Justice Education
Co-sponsored by: Centre for the Study of United States (CSUS); Centre for Integrative Anti-racism (CIARS); Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies (CDTS); and Mark Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies (SDS).
This one-day symposium brings together scholars working at the interstices of gender, sexuality, and queer theory in black diaspora studies. Black Diaspora Conversations foregrounds new positions in the debates on gender, sexuality and queer thought from multiple sites of blackness. Four OISE University of Toronto doctoral students will be presenting work in progress from their dissertation projects, which sit at the interstices of gender, queer, black, diaspora, and sexuality studies. As well, two scholars working at the most exciting sites of queer thought will provide keynotes. Speakers: Lamonda Horton-Stallings is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington; C. Riley Snorton (School of Communication, Northwestern University). Snorton’s research and teaching focuses on black cultural production, queer theory, and transgender studies.
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Wednesday, September 18, 4:30-6:00 pm
2nd floor lounge, North House
Munk School of Global Affairs
American Studies Undergraduate Journal
Launch and Reception
