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Graduate Faculty in Ethnicity or Immigration

The following directory includes University of Toronto professors teaching courses for the Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. In addition, departmental representatives are listed, as well as faculty members whose academic interests concern either ethnicity or immigration.

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Anthropology (5)
Economics (1)
European, Russian & Eurasian Studies (11)
Geography (6)
History (13)
Industrial Relations & Human Resources (3)
Law (8)
Nursing (3)
Political Science (9)
Religion (5)
Social Work (6)
Sociology (8)
Sociology & Equity Studies in Education (6)
Theory & Policy Studies in Education (3)
Women & Gender Studies (5)


POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

Ronald Beiner
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Professor Ronald Beiner's academic interests include contemporary political philosophy and the history of political thought. Professor Beiner's current research focuses on nationalism, liberalism, citizenship—exploring liberal, illiberal, and "post-liberal" approaches,and politics and religion.

Selected Publications

Beiner, Ronald. "Politics and Vision: The Sequel," European Journal of Political Theory 5 (2006): 437-54.

______.Liberalism, Nationalism, Citizenship: Essays on the Problem of Political Community. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003.

______, and Wayne Norman, eds. Canadian Political Philosophy: Contemporary Reflections. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2001.

______, and Jennifer Nedelsky, eds. Judgment, Imagination, and Politics: Themes from Kant and Arendt. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001.

______, ed. Theorizing Nationalism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.

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Jacques Bertrand
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Professor Jacques Bertrand teaches POL 2413—Politics, Culture, and Identity in Southeast Asia in the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. Interests include politics in Southeast Asian (particularly Indonesia), ethnic and religious politics, nationalism, democratic transitions, peasant politics, and democracy and development. Professor Bertrand's current research focuses on ethnic and religious relations in Indonesia with a comparative perspective.

Selected Publications

Bertrand, Jacques. "Democratization and ethno-nationalist conflict in Southeast Asia." Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 30-September 3, 2006. Available at: http://www.queensu.ca/edg/APSAbertrand.html/

______.Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

______. "Language Policy in Indonesia: The Promotion of a National Language amidst Ethnic Diversity." In Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia, edited by Michael Brown and Sumit Ganguly. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.

______. "Legacies of the Authoritarian Past: Religious Violence in Indonesia's Moluccan Islands," Pacific Affairs 75.1 (Spring 2002): 57-87.

______. "Peace and Conflict in the Southern Phillippines: Why the 1996 Peace Agreement is Fragile," Pacific Affairs 73.1 (Spring 2000): 37-56.

______. "Civil Society and Conflict Prevention." In Canadian Development Report 1999: Civil Society and Global Change, edited by Alison van Rooy. Ottawa: North-South Institute, 1999.

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Joseph Carens
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Professor Joseph Carens teaches POL 20001Y-S—Problems of Political Community (2002-2003) in the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. Interests include contemporary political theory, immigration, multiculturalism and citizenship. Current research focuses on the ethics of immigration.

Selected Publications

Carens, Joseph. "The Problem of Doing Good in a World that Isn't: Reflections on the Ethical Challenges Facing NGOs." In Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations, edited by Daniel A. Bell and Jean-Marc Coicaud. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

______, Tariq Modood, Randall Hansen, Erik Bleich, and Brendan O'Leary. "The Danish Cartoon Affair: Free Speech, Racism, Islamism, and Integration," International Migration 44.5 (December 2006): 3-57.

______. "On Belonging: What We Owe to People Who Stay," Boston Review (Summer 2005).

______. "Who Should Get In? The Ethics of Immigration Admissions," Ethics and International Affairs 17.1 (Spring 2003).

______. "The Rights of Residents." In Reinventing Citizenship: Dual Citizenship, Social Rights, and Federal Citizenship in Europe and the US, edited by Randall Hansen and Patrick Weil. Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, 2002.

______. Culture, Citizenship, and Community: A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

______, ed. Is Quebec Nationalism Just?: Perspectives from Anglophone Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995.

______, ed. Democracy and Possessive Individualism: The Intellectual Legacy of C. B. Macpherson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.

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Simone Chambers
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Professor Simone Chambers teaches POL 2038H—Problems of Pluralism and Equality (2002-2003) for the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. Interests include deliberative democracy; critical theory; contemporary liberalism and ethics; theories of justice, democracy, discourse, and political participation, Canadian constitutional theory and history; and constitutionalism and democracy. Currently, Professor Chambers is writing a book on public reason anddeliberation.

Selected Publications

Chambers, Simone. "How Religion Speaks to the Agnostic: Habermas on the Persistent Value of Religion," Constellations 14.2 (June 2007).

______. "'It is Not in Heaven!' Adjudicating Hard Cases." In Multiculturalism and the Law: A Critical Debate, edited by Omid Payrow Shabani. University of Wales Press, 2007.

______. "The Politics of Equality: Rawls on the Barricades," Perspectives on Politics 4.1 (March 2006).

______, and Jeffrey Kopstein. "Civil Society and the State." In Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, edited by John Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, and Anne Phillips. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

______. "Representing Pluralism: A Comment on Pyrcz, Warren, and Kernerman." In Representation and Democratic Theory, edited by David Laycock. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004.

______, and Will Kymlicka, eds. Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.

______, and Kopstein, J. "Bad Civil Society," Political Theory 29.6 (December 2001): 837-65.

______, and Anne Costain, eds. Deliberation, Democracy and the Media. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.

______. Reasonable Democracy: Jürgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse. Ithica, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.

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H. Donald Forbes
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Professor Donald Forbes teaches Canadian Theories of Multiculturalism (POL 2027S, 2002-2003) in the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. He is also the representative for Political Science on the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies committee. Interests include Canadian politics; Anglo-American political thought; nationalism and ethnic conflict; and the philosophy and politics of the social sciences. Professor Forbes is currently writing a book about multiculturalism and researching the political thought of George Grant.

Selected Publications

Forbes, H. Donald. "Burke on the Brink of the Volcano: Explaining the Theory of an Anti-theoretical Theorist." Paper presented at the annual meeeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Saskatoon, May 31, 2007.

______. "Positive Political Theory." In Handbook of Political Theory, edited by Gerald F. Gaus and Chandran Kukathas. London: Sage, 2004.

______. "Towards a Science of Ethnic Conflict?" Journal of Democracy 14.4 (2003): 172-77.

______. Ethnic Conflict: Commerce, Culture, and the Contract Hypothesis. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.


Online Publications
"What is Multiculturalism? A Political Answer
http://www.utoronto.ca/ethnicstudies/Forbes_Multiculturalism.pdf

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Randall Hansen
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Professor Randall Hansen is the Canada Research Chair in Immigration and Governance at the University of Toronto. He teaches POL 2321 "Citizenship and Immigration in Europe and North America" in the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. Professor Hansen's research involves examining the issue of immigration, integration, and asylum in North American and European Society. Current work focuses on the headscarf controversies in France and Germany, eugenics in Britain and the United States, and German suffering during the bombing of Germany in the Second World War.

Selected Publications

Hansen, Randall, and Mattew Gibney, eds. Migration in the 20th Century: an Encyclopedia. 3 vols. Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2005.

______, and Jobst Kohler. "Issue Definition, Political Discourse and the Politics of Nationality Reform in France and Germany," European Journal of Political Research 44.5 (2005): 623-44.

______. "Migration to Europe since 1945: Its History and Its Lessons," Political Quarterly 74.S1 (2003).

______, and Patrick Weil, eds. Dual Nationality, Social Rights, and Federal Citizenship in the US and Europe: The Reinvention of Citizenship. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002.

______. "From Subjects to Citizens: Immigration and Nationality Law in the United Kingdom." In Towards a European Nationality: Citizenship, Immigration, and Nationality Law in the EU, edited by Randall Hansen and Patrick Weil. Houndsmills, Basingstoke; New York, NY: Palgrave, 2001.

______, and Patrick Weil, eds. Towards a European Nationality: Citizenship, Immigration, and Nationality Law in the EU. Houndsmills, Basingstoke; New York, NY: Palgrave, 2001.

______. Citizenship and Immigration in Post-War Britain: The Institutional Origins of a Multicultural Nation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Paul Robert Magocsi
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Donald Schwartz
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Professor Donald Schwartz teaches POL 2324H—Ethnonationalism and State-Building: The Communist and Post-Communist Experience (2002-2003) in the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. Professor Schwartz is also the graduate coordinator for the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES). For 2005-2006, he is serving as the faculty representative of Political Science on the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies program committee. Interests include domestic politics in the Soviet Union and its successor states, especially nationality issues; comparative ethnic politics in industrialized states; ethnic politics in Canada and multiculturalism; ethnic self-identity and integration.

Selected Publications

Schwartz, Donald V. The CPSU in Resolutions and Decisions: The Brezhnev Years. (forthcoming).

_____. "Rethinking the Progressive Era." Paper presented at CCSS conference, March 2006.

______, and Razmik Panossian, eds. Nationalism and History: The Politics of Nation Building in Post-Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

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Phil Triadafilopoulos
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Professor Triadafilos (Phil) Triadafilopoulos is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in 2004 and holds an M.A. in Politics from Brock University and a B.A. from the University of Toronto. He was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto and a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin. Triadafilopoulos is presently completing two book projects: Becoming Multicultural: Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in Canada and Germany and Moving People, Fixing Borders: "Ethnic Unmixing," the Great Powers, and the Quest for Stability in Europe, 1919-1999 (co-authored with Tobias Vogel).

Selected Publications

Triadafilopoulos, Phil. "Dual Citizenship and Security Norms in Historical Perspective." In Dual Citizenship: Rights, Democracy and Identity in a Globalizing World, edited by Thomas Faist and Peter Kivisto. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

______, and Andrej Zaslove. "Influencing Migration Policy from Inside: Political Parties.” In Dialogues on Migration Policy, edited by Marco Giugni and Florence Passy. Lexington Books, 2006.

______, and Karen Schonwalder. "How the Federal Republic Became and Immigration Country: Norms, Politics and the Failure of West Germany's Guest Worker System," German Politics and Society 24.3 (Fall 2006).

_____, and Tobial Vogel. "Against the Politics of Partition: A Critique of Unmixing as Peacemaking and Rescue." In The Greek-Turkish Exchange of Populations: Aspects of a National Confrontation, edited by Kostas Tsitselikis. Kritiki Publishing, 2006 (in Greek).

_____. "A Model for Europe? A Critical Appraisal of Canadian Integration Policies." In Politische Steuerung von Integrationsprozesessen: Intentionen und Wirkungen (The Political Management of Integration Processes: Intentions and Effects), edited by Karen Schönwälder, Sigrid Baringhorst, and Uwe Hunger. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2006.

_____. "Family Immigration Policy in Comparative Perspective: Canada and the United States," Canadian Issues/Thèmes Canadiens (Spring 2006): 30-33.

_____, and Thomas Faist. "Beyond Nationhood: Citizenship Politics in Germany Since Unification." Munk Centre for International Studies Working Paper Series on Controversies in Global Politics and Societies 1 (2006).

_____. "Building Walls, Bounding Nations: Migration and Exclusion in Canada and Germany, 1870-1939," Journal of Historical Sociology 17.4 (2004): 385-427.

_____. "Ethnic Greeks in Albania" and "The Albanian Community in Greece." In The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe, edited by Karl Cordell and Stefan Wolff. Palgrave, 2004.

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Melissa Williams
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Professor Melissa Williams has taught POL 2038H—Problems of Pluralism and Equality (2002-2003) in the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. Interests include democratic theory , with an emphasis on contemporary debates over liberalism; American constitutionalism and political thought; and feminist theory. Currently, Professor William's research focuses on liberal impartiality and its critics.

Selected Publications

Williams, Melissa. "Nonterritorial Boundaries of Citizenship." In Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances, edited by Seyla Benhabib, Ian Shapiro, and Danilo Petranovich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

______, and Stephen Macedo. Political Exclusion and Domination. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2005.

______, and Terry Nardin, eds. Humanitarian Intervention. New York: NYU Press, 2005.

______. Citizenship and Identity: Citizenship as Shared Fate and the Functions of Multicultural Education. Toronto: Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 2001.

______, and Patrick Hanafin, eds. Identity, Rights, and Constitutional Transformation. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999.

______. Voice, Trust and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.

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Program Director:
 Jeffrey G. Reitz
Courses, 2010-2011

Program Administrator:

Momo Kano Podolsky


Collaborating Departments:

Anthropology
European, Russian, & Eurasian Studies
Geography
History
Industrial Relations & Human Resources
Nursing Science
Political Science
Religion
Social Work
Sociology
Sociology & Equity Studies in Education
Theory & Policy Studies in Education
Women & Gender Studies