Department News

Professor Alexander Moens discusses the role of NATO in global politics.

Professor Anthony Perl's media interviews about the future of transportation

The Department of Political Science celebrates its spring and summer 2020 undergraduate award winners who have received The Pauline Jewett Scholarship, The Rama Reddy Scholarship and The Robert Stanfield Book Prize.

Stewart Prest discusses The Detention of Canadians in China with CTV News Channel on June 21, 2020.

Sanjana Ramesh came to SFU to work on human rights issues centered around gender and sexuality. Now she graduates with her master’s in political science, having contributed to the discourse on LGBTQIA+ rights.

David Henigman has worked hard to complete his political science major and law and philosophy minor, plus certificate in ethics and global justice.

Our faculty members regularly produce world-class research in a number of political science sub-disciplines. Read more about just a few projects that have made headlines recently.

The Department of Political Science congratulates you on your Simon Fraser University graduation. Although we cannot celebrate with you in person, we want to let you know how proud we are of your achievements.

The CDSN COVID Response Recommendations and Future Directions - Department of Political Science Chair Alex Moens is co-director in this SSHRC-funded partnership and PhD candidate Alexandra Richards is a regular researcher.

Stewart Prest gives insight into the impact of COVID-19 on civil liberties, municipal politics and more. Read and listen to his interviews here.

Professor Aude-Claire Fourot has won a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connection Grant and Partnership Engage Grant.

Sanjay Jeram's interviews with CBC Radio One and the "Georgia Straight" about the COVID-19 crisis are available here.

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

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

Professor Alan Jacobs (UBC) will be presenting a free talk, "Whose News? Class-biased Economic Reporting in the United States".

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 and Simulation Program will be on January 14, 2020.

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!

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.

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.

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. Lampa chose to do her degree at SFU because she was looking for a sense of community.

Simon Fraser University 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.

Cory Henderson graduated from the French Cohort Program in Summer 2019 with a major in political science (Honours) and an extended minor in French. She is currently completing her Master's in political science. Read about her academic journey at SFU.

Natasha Mhuriro didn’t plan on majoring in political science when she began her studies at Simon Fraser University. 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.

"The Great Disruption: Understanding the Populist Forces Behind Trump, Brexit, and LePen" aims to put the shocking events of 2016–17 into a long-term, historical perspective.