Department News

Stewart Prest gives insight into the impact of COVID-19 on civil liberties, municipal politics and more.

The Department of Political Science congratulates Sanjay Jeram and Stewart Prest who received 2019 President's Media Newsmaker Awards.

Sanjay Jeram's interviews with CBC Radio One about the COVID-19 Crisis

Congratulations to students from across the university and especially across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) who took home top honours in the 3rd Annual 2019 Student Learning Commons (SLC) Writing Contest!

Kate Olivares is an exceptional political science student, whose latest accomplishment was acceptance into the B.C. Legislative Internship Program for 2021.

SFU political science professor S. Laurel Weldon has studied the impact of women’s movements around the globe and finds they have advanced women’s economic empowerment.

Marina Bishara will soon graduate from SFU. In her last year as a political science major (Honours) with an extended minor in French, she’s reflecting on her experience at university and beyond.

The final information sessions for the 2020 NATO Field School will be on January 14, 2020. Learn about all field school opportunities from 11:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. in WMC 3260 and hear more about the NATO Field School from 12:30 - 1:20 p.m. in WMC 3517.

Several of our NATO Field School students never expected that they would spend the summer in Kosovo, in addition to the NATO Field School sites.

SFU political science alumnus Michael Thorburn has been chosen as one of 145 Schwarzman Scholars to complete a fully-funded, one-year master's degree at Beijing's Tsinghua University.

Simon Fraser University (SFU) PhD alumnus and former instructor Nancy Teeple is heading to Vermont in January to take up the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Peace and War Studies at Norwich University.

In 2017, Maja Lampa made a long journey. She left Hong Kong, where she had been studying since 2015, and came to Simon Fraser University (SFU). Lampa chose to do her degree at SFU because she was looking for a sense of community.

Natasha Mhuriro didn’t plan on majoring in political science when she began her studies at Simon Fraser University (SFU). She started her academic life with a double major in business administration and economics. However, she realized that her passion for female empowerment and community service wouldn’t be fulfilled if she continued on her current path.

Professor Rémi Léger was part of the organizing committee at The Symposium on the Francophonie in British Columbia that took place at SFU Burnaby on October 4th and 5th.