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It's back to school at Queen's University 🇹🇩
A warm welcome to our NEW & returning students at Queen's Department of Political Studies➡️100s of new POLS majors, 34 new MA students (incl. 5 exchange students) & 9 new PhD students!
Wishing you all a rewarding year of learning!🍎📚
07/02/2024
🥂 Congratulations to Queen's Department of Political Studies Professor Colin Farrelly on his forthcoming (Sept. 2024) book 📚 from Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., "Classics of Political Thought for Today", dedicated to the 3000+ students who have taken POLS 250 and POLS 350 with Farrelly over the past 15 years at Queen's University!
Classics of Political Thought for Today Humanity faces numerous critical challenges in the twenty-first century, from climate change and globalization to pandemics and the impact of technological advances. Can the ideas of past political thinkers help us refine the problem-solving skills needed to redress the practical predicaments of tod...
06/21/2024
🥂Congratulations to all at Queen's University who graduate this week! 🌟 What an accomplishment! 🌟
This morning, Queen's Department of Political Studies grads are attending convocation at Slush Puppie Place 🇹🇩 👩🎓👨🎓
We look forward to celebrating your amazing milestone with you and your guests at noon!
06/20/2024
The Queens Gazette has just published this story about Stéfanie von Hlatky receiving the Trudeau Fellowship! 👏👏
Political scientist awarded Trudeau Fellowship | Queen's Gazette Expert in gender and the armed forces, Stéfanie von Hlatky is one of only four Canadians to receive the prize.
🎉Congratulations to ✨DR. Simon Marmura Brown ✨ on completing his PhD oral defence this afternoon, bringing to a close years of hard work and dedication as a doctoral student at Queen's Department of Political Studies!
Many thanks to supervisor Wayne Cox and committee members! 🌟🏆
05/02/2024
⌛️ LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for the 2024 Queen's Department of Political Studies Graduate Students Association's hybrid Graduate Conference on June 26th!
🌍"Navigating New Realities in a Changing Global Landscape"🌎
Deadline for submissions is May 5!
More info ⬇️
https://www.queensu.ca/politics/graduate/graduate-student-conference-2024
04/11/2024
Exam period starts at Queen's University today😬
Good luck to our Queen's Department of Political Studies students - you've got this! ☘️🧲🤞
🎉Congratulations to ✨DR. Fikir Haile✨on the successful completion of her PhD oral defence yesterday, the culmination of years of hard work and dedication at Queen's Department of Political Studies! 🌟🔥
A big thank you to supervisor Susanne Soederberg and to the committee members!
04/09/2024
| The CIDP welcomes Taylor Fountain, a second-year student at Queen’s pursuing a major in Political Studies and a minor in Philosophy. His summer research for the CIPD revolves around the role of the United States within the NATO alliance, focusing on the potential ramifications of the upcoming U.S. federal elections. Click the link below to read his bio:
https://www.queensu.ca/cidp/people-search/taylor-fountain
It's officially the LAST DAY OF CLASSES at Queen's University and Queen's Department of Political Studies for the 2023/2024 academic year! We're ending the year in style with a solar eclipse here in the path of totality in ! 💁♀️😎 ☀️🌕☀️
🥹 Today we bid a sad farewell to Allison Hannah, as she works her last day as our amazing ✨ Academic Program Assistant. Allison, we will all miss your energy, dedication, humour and positive vibes in the main office! 💁♀️🪴 🔥🏆
We wish you every success in your new role with the City of Kingston - Municipal Government!
03/28/2024
👏 A belated thank you to Tracey Raney, Queen's Department of Political Studies alumna 🇹🇩 and professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, for an excellent and thought-provoking talk last Friday about her research on gender-based violence in 🇨🇦 politics! It was a great wrap up to this year's series!
03/26/2024
🎉 Congratulations to the 2023 award recipients for the inaugural Kim Richard Nossal Undergraduate Teaching Award…. 🥁
Peacock Postdoctoral Fellow Surulola Eke 🎉🏆🌟
and…
Assistant Prof Fan Lu! 🎉🏆🌟
A wonderful ceremony and reception, thanks to the Queen's Department of Political Studies DSC 👏🏽
03/26/2024
🎉 Happening now! ✨
The inaugural Kim Richard Nossal Undergraduate Teaching Award 🏆 ceremony is underway and we are honoured that Professor Emeritus Kim Nossal is here to reflect on the importance of teaching. Two award recipients for 2023 will be recognized shortly by the Queen's Department of Political Studies DSC! 🏆🎉🏆🎉
03/12/2024
🍿 New video alert! 🍿
Dr. Colin Farrelly, Queen's Department of Political Studies' Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Political Theory, gave his inaugural lecture last week, "Geroscience and Political Imagination: The Science of Healthy Aging."
🎬His lecture debuts on our YouTube channel today!
National Institute on Aging - NIH Canadian Institutes of Health Research Gerontological Society of America Queen's University
Geroscience and Political Imagination: The Science of Healthy Aging Colin Farrelly, Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Political Theory at Queen's University's Department of Political Studies, delivers his inaugural Peacock lect...
03/12/2024
🎉Congratulations to Queen's Department of Political Studies first year PhD student Ben Ofosu-Atuahene for winning the inaugural Mapping the Global Dimensions of Policy (MGDP) Paper Prize at this past weekend's Mapping the Global Dimensions 13th annual graduate conference at the McMaster University Department of Political Science. Well done, Ben!!🏆
03/08/2024
Happening now!
Queen's Department of Political Studies Prof Colin Farrelly is delivering a fascinating inaugural Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Political Theory lecture, “Geroscience and Political Imagination: The Science of Healthy Aging.”
📽️ Recording coming soon!
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History of the Department
In 1877, John Watson, a Queen's philosophy professor, gave a series of courses in "political economy". These courses proved popular enough that in 1889, Adam Shortt, another professor of philosophy, convinced the university to create a Department of Political and Economic Science and to appoint him as the first full-time professor of politics and economics. He held the Sir John A. Macdonald Chair of Political and Economic Science from 1899 until 1908, when he was appointed the first chair of the Canadian Civil Service Commission, a body created to reform the federal public service.
Over the years, Shortt's successors included O.D. Skelton, who moved from Queen's to the federal government in Ottawa, where in the 1920s and 1930s he laid the foundation for the contemporary foreign service; J.A. Corry, who served as Queen's Principal between 1961 and 1968; and R.L. Watts, who served as Queen's Principal between 1974 and 1984.
Beginning in 1960, reflecting broader trends towards disciplinary specialization across the university system, the department began a process of division and divestiture. In 1960, a separate Department of Geography was established, and in 1963, the School of Business, which had been part of Political and Economic Science since the creation of a Commerce program in 1919, became its own faculty. In 1964, the economists left to form a separate department, and in 1969, it was the turn of the sociologists (though the faculty member who gave the first sociology course at Queen's, John Meisel, remained in Political Studies). Finally, in 1970, a School of Public Administration - forerunner of today's School of Policy Studies - was created.
It was after the departure of the economists in 1964 that the Department of Political Studies at Queen's cemented its reputation as one of the leading political science departments in Canada for both undergraduate and graduate work. Although the first graduate degree was granted in 1926, it was not until the 1960s that the graduate program expanded along with the expansion of Canada's post-secondary education system. In the decades that followed, numerous PhDs from Political Studies at Queen's have been appointed to university professorships in Canada and in other countries, and the undergraduate program has grown to include an average annual enrollment rate of 800 students in nearly 70 courses across four degree plans.
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