Sylvia Bashevkin | |
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Born | Sylvia Beth Bashevkin |
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Discipline | Political science |
Institutions | University College,Toronto |
Main interests | Government of Canada,Comparative Politics,Public Policy |
Sylvia Beth Bashevkin OC FRSC (born 1954) is a Canadian academic and writer known for her research in the field of women and politics. [1]
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]
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