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]

Sylvia Bashevkin
Born
Sylvia Beth Bashevkin
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical science
InstitutionsUniversity College, Toronto
Main interestsGovernment of Canada, Comparative Politics, Public Policy

Career

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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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b "University of Toronto biography".
  2. ^ "Sylvia Bashevkin Interviewed by Opinion-Policy Nexus". politics.utoronto.ca. June 20, 2013. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
  3. ^ "Canadian Political Science Association BULLETIN" (PDF). cpsa-acsp.ca. p. 29. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
  4. ^ "SYLVIA BASHEVKIN". munkschool.utoronto.ca. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
  5. ^ "Sylvia Bashevkin Receives the RSC Award in Gender Studies". politics.utoronto.ca. September 23, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
  6. ^ "Sylvia Bashevkin Honoured with Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award". politics.utoronto.ca. June 19, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
  7. ^ "CPSA Award Winners". politics.utoronto.ca. June 1, 2018. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
  8. ^ "ISA Bertha Lutz Prize". politics.utoronto.ca. March 20, 2019. Retrieved April 28, 2019.