Sylvia Bashevkin
Sylvia Beth Bashevkin | |
|---|---|
| Academic background | |
| Education | Hampshire College (BA) University of Michigan (MA) York University (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political science |
| Institutions | University College, Toronto |
| Main interests | Canadian Government, Comparative Politics, Public Policy |
Sylvia Beth Bashevkin, FRSC (born 1954) is Canadian academic and writer known for her research in the field of women and politics.[1]
Career
[edit]Bashevkin is a professor in the Department of Political Science in the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science. From 2005 to 2011, she was Principal of University College, Toronto.[2] She is a senior fellow of Massey College, Toronto.[1]
In 2001, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[3] In 2005, Bashevkin was named Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award by the Women's Executive Network.[4] Later in 2014, she was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Ursula Franklin Award in Gender Studies.[5] That same year, she was also the recipient of the Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association.[6]
In 2017, Bashevkin published an article titled "Listening to women leaders: Feminist narratives among US foreign policy" which was subsequently short listed for the 2018 Jill Vickers Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association.[7] The following year, Bashevkin was awarded the ISA Bertha Lutz Prize by the International Studies Association.[8]
Selected bibliography
[edit]- Women As Foreign Policy Leaders: National Security and Gender Politics in Superpower America (Oxford University Press, 2018)
- Women, Power, Politics: The Hidden Story of Canada's Unfinished Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2009)
- Tales of Two Cities: Women and Municipal Restructuring in London and Toronto (University of British Columbia Press, 2006)
- Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work and Social Policy Reform (University of Toronto Press and University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002)
- Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times (University of Chicago Press and University of Toronto Press, 1998)
- Toeing the Lines: Women and Party Politics in English Canada (2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1993)
- True Patriot Love: The Politics of Canadian Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 1991)
- Toeing the Lines: Women and Party Politics in English Canada (University of Toronto Press, 1985)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "University of Toronto biography".
- ^ "Sylvia Bashevkin Interviewed by Opinion-Policy Nexus". politics.utoronto.ca. June 20, 2013. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
- ^ "Canadian Political Science Association BULLETIN" (PDF). cpsa-acsp.ca. p. 29. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
- ^ "SYLVIA BASHEVKIN". munkschool.utoronto.ca. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
- ^ "Sylvia Bashevkin Receives the RSC Award in Gender Studies". politics.utoronto.ca. September 23, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
- ^ "Sylvia Bashevkin Honoured with Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award". politics.utoronto.ca. June 19, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
- ^ "CPSA Award Winners". politics.utoronto.ca. June 1, 2018. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
- ^ "ISA Bertha Lutz Prize". politics.utoronto.ca. March 20, 2019. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
- Living people
- 1954 births
- Canadian political scientists
- Canadian women political scientists
- 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
- Canadian women non-fiction writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Canadian women academics
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
- Academic staff of the University of Toronto
- York University alumni
- University of Michigan alumni
- Hampshire College alumni
- Presidents of the Canadian Political Science Association