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DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL STUDIES—UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN
NEWSLETTER No. 11, Fall 2003
NEW FACULTY MEMBERS
Yale Belanger holds an MA in Politics & Native Studies from the University of Manitoba and is completing his dissertation at Trent University. He is teaching two new courses: ‘The Evolution of Canadian and US Indian Policy’ (348.6) and ‘The Political Interface of Aboriginal Organizations in Canada’ (307.3). He has two books slated to appear in 2004: one edited, Imaginary Borders, Genuine
Boundaries: Exploring the Effect of Boundaries Upon Native People in Canada (University of Manitoba Press), and the other co-authored with David Newhouse, Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada: A Trend Analysis and Literature Review (Bearpaw Publishing). Daniel Pellerin studied politics and philosophy at Oxford, UCLA, and NYU before getting his PhD from the University of Toronto with a thesis on Calvin. He has published articles on Nietzsche and Calvin, and his collection of Herder’s writings in a new translation, co-edited with Ioannis Evrigenis, is to be released by Hackett in March, 2004. Greg Poelzer has an Honours degree in political science from the University of
Alberta, an MA MA from Carleton and a PhD from the University of Alberta. He comes to Saskatchewan from the University of Northern British Columbia, where he was chair of the Political Science Program. He is a specialist in Aboriginal-state relations in Canada
and other northern hemispheric countries. In addition to his position at the U of S, he has recently been appointed Dean, Undergraduate Studies of the new University of the Arctic.
NEW DEPARTMENT STAFF
The Department is happy to welcome welcome Alexis Dahl as its Administrative Assistant. This is the first time that the Department has had had such an appointment. Alexis is a a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan with a degree in Education and Chemistry. She works works for our Department in the morning and works for the Department of Chemistry in the afternoon. Alexis’s contribution to the Department is already evident in dealing with various organizational and development initiatives. Welcome Alexis!
The Department is also pleased to welcome Heather Exner who has recently joined us. Heather is working for Greg Poelzer as his Administrative Assistant on the University of the Arctic. She completed her BA here at the U of S in International Studies in 2000 then received her MA in Political Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland in
2002. Recently she returned from a DFAIT internship in Geneva, Switzerland, through project Ploughshares. A warm welcome to Heather!
PRESENTING OUR NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS
Left to right: Stacey Smith-Coleman, Rachel Whidden, Sean Kochan, Gerelt Bayanter, Niki Pogue, Bill Rafoss, Clare Pellerin, Jesse Semko
FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS Cris de Clercy has been elected to a two-year term as a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Political Science Association. She and Peter Ferguson (formerly of the Department) have published ‘The 2000 Canadian Election and the Elections Act Polling Reporting Provisions: Contra Professor Durand, the New Law Has Merit’ Canadian Public Policy 29 (no. 3), Sept. 2003. Roy Romanow was honoured in Washington, D.C. in September with the prestigious Pan American Health Organization’s Award for Administration. The award recognizes his work relating to Canada’s health care system. As well this year, he received honourary doctorates from Brock University and the University of Ottawa, and the Canadian Public Service Award. Writing as Timothy Andrew, Bohdan Kordan has published ‘An Italian Repose,’ Queen’s Quarterly, Special Issue: Stranger in the City, vol. 110, no. 2 (Summer 2003). Professor Kordan will be teaching two courses (Polst 342.3 Russia and the Former Soviet Union and 343.3 Politics of Change: Post-Soviet Ukraine) as part of the U of S Program in the Ukraine in the winter term. Ron Wheeler delivered a paper critiquing Michael Ignatieff’s Whelan Lecture in May 2003. The paper, entitled “A Fourth Option for Political Ethics in an Age of Terror,” will be published along with the Whelan Lecture by the University of Saskatchewan. He also presented a paper entitled “Untangling the Concept of Political Terrorism,” at the conference
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on “Justice, Culture and ‘Terror’: Reaffirming or Reforming ‘Canadian’ Values After 9/11,” in Saskatoon in September. Professor Wheeler was also named as one of the most popular professors at the University of Saskatchewan in the Maclean’s Guide to Canadian Universities, 2003. Anna Hunter has an article on Aboriginal voting in the forthcoming issue of Elections Canada’s Electoral Insight. Greg Poelzer has published with Gail Fondahl, ‘Aboriginal Rights in Russia at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century,’ Polar Record 39 (209), 111-22 (2003). John Courtney and Michael Atkinson will each be presenting papers at the annual meeting in November of the Association of Canadian Studies in the United States in Portland, OR. (Courtney: ‘Issues Raised by the Electoral Reform Debate in Canada’; Atkinson: ‘Views of Canadians on Corruption in Politics’). Professor Courtney presided at the concluding meeting of chairmen of current federal electoral boundaries commissions in Ottawa in September. David Smith, as vice-chairman of the Saskatchewan Commission, also attended. Professor Smith spoke to the staff of the Senate of Canada at their annual retreat in September at Meech Lake, Quebec; the subject was his new book, The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective (University of Toronto Press), which appeared in August. Later this fall, Professor Smith will give the University of Saskatchewan Distinguished Researcher Award Lecture. In November he will give the Institute for the Study of Canada Mallory Lecture at McGill University. Former faculty members Eric Montpetit (now Université de Montréal) and Geneviève Bouchard (research director, IRPP) are proud parents of Chlöe, a baby girl, born in September.
NEWS ABOUT CURRENT AND FORMER STUDENTS
Catherine Naylen (BA ‘99), who has been living in Singapore, will enter the Richard Ivey School of Business (UWO) this fall. Kelly Gould (BA Hons ‘02), Audrey Lewans (BA Hons ‘02), Paul Clemens (BA Hons ‘01) and Tanis Halpape (BA Hons ‘01) have entered the College of Law (U of S). Kim McKechney (BA ‘03), a fourth year student in political studies, is one of four Saskatchewan university students chosen to participate in the annual Saskatchewan Legislative Internship program. Greg Gudelot (Hons BA ‘03) is doing an MA in political science at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. His thesis will look at ‘Canada’s Constitutional Amending Formula in Comparative Concept.’ He says: ‘I’ve been very impressed with the quality of my undergraduate preparation.’ Dion Curry (Hons BA ’03) is now in the graduate program at Simon Fraser University. Kelly Homenick (Hons BA ‘03) has entered the Museum Studies program at Algonguin College in Ottawa. Calvin Hanselmann (MA ‘00) has moved from the Canada West Foundation in Calgary to a position in the Privy Counsel Office, Ottawa. Stephanie Boisard and Megan Murphy, both of whom completed their Master’s program this past spring, are enrolled in the PhD program in political science at the University of Alberta, where they will join Evan Jones (MA ‘02). Steven McGuire (MA ‘03) has followed Megan Furi (MA ‘02) and is now working as an intern in the Research Branch of the Parliamentary Library. Megan has graduated to a research officer in the Branch. Jeremy Geddert (MA ‘03) is a Parliamentary Intern in Ottawa as of 1 September 2003. Maria Kurylo (MA ‘00) is a policy planning analyst at the Communications Branch at Environment Canada in Edmonton. Raj Chari (MA ‘93), now a permanent member of the Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Dublin, has two
articles in recent issues of West European Politics and Government and Opposition. Jim Nicol (BA Hons ‘85, BCom ‘87), for more than a decade in the Department of the Executive Council, Government of Saskatchewan, is now Assistant Deputy Minister in the Department of Labour. Karla Radloff currently writing her MA thesis on ‘Innovative Incrementalism through Cooperative Development in Northern Saskatchewan during the CCF Years (1944-64), has received the Arctic Cooperative Limited Award. Sandra Rezansoff (BA PubAdmin. ’96) is completing her foreign service training with DFAIT. Before that she was senior analyst with Public Works and Government Services Canada.
NEW PROGRAM IN ABORIGINAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
In the fall of 2003, the Department of Political Studies introduced a new program in Aboriginal Public Administration (APA). The APA program is designed to help students develop the necessary skills to understand the unique governance, administrative, management and policy issues facing Aboriginal communities. Three capstone courses (IK 301, 302, 401) provide interdisciplinary study in Indigenous Knowledge and concepts of justice; they are available to political studies students. If you want more information on the program, please contact Professor Anna Hunter: Student Advisor, APA Program at 966-5200.
PASS EXECUTIVE – 2003-04 (Political Studies & Public Administration Students’ Society)
President Juanita Bacsu [email protected] VP Internal Jennifer Huber [email protected] VP External Kim Stranden [email protected] Treasurer Jenny Kattler [email protected] Secretary Carmen Cripps [email protected] 1st Year Rep TBA 2nd Year Rep TBA 3rd Year Rep Eric Horner [email protected] 4th Year Rep Marianne Possberg [email protected] Social Rep Jason Caldwell [email protected] Public Admin. Rep TBA Pol. St. Rep. Marla Minke [email protected]
UPCOMING PASS EVENTS • International Relations speaker – TBA • Visit of High Commissioner of India to Canada – October • Steak night with the Profs – November – TBA • CSIS speaker – November – TBA • Pool with the Profs – October – TBA • PASS-OUT Bus Trip – February – TBA . . . . and more events to be announced later! Watch for them on the Department’s web page under PASS.
Department of Political Studies University of Saskatchewan
919 Arts Building - 9 Campus Drive Saskatoon, Sask. Canada S7N 5A5
Telephone: (306) 966-5208 Fax: (306) 966-5250 Web: http://www.usask.ca/politic/
Department Head: Professor J. Garcea (966-5222) Graduate Director: Professor J. S. Steeves (966-5219)
Undergraduate Director: Professor D. E. Smith (966-5219) Chair, Public Administration: Professor J. Garcea (966-5222)
Newsletter: Professor D. E. Smith (966-5219)
Enrolment: Undergraduate enrolment is up again—this year there are 12 percent more students registered in political studies classes than in 2002-03.
