March 28, 2025 by
A&S News
From Dean Melanie Woodin as the university’s 17th president to American academics joining the university, experts from a range of disciplines across the Faculty of Arts & Science are sharing their expertise on a variety of issues in the media.
Here’s some of what they had to say this week.
March 21, 2025
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Timothy Snyder comments for The Globe and Mail (paywall) on the possibility of war between the U.S. and Canada.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Citizen Lab senior research associate Kate Robertson shares with Global News her report on spyware and Ontario police.
March 22, 2025
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments for the Canadian Press on what draws some Canadians to the 51st state movement.
- Department of Anthropology professor emeritus Marcel Danesi tells the Daily Mail that emojis can be signs of gang allegiance or refer to specific crimes.
March 23, 2025
- David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics professor and chair Roberto Abraham studies distant galaxies using gravitational lensing as part of the CANUCS project, as highlighted by Daily Galaxy.
March 24, 2025
- Department of Psychology assistant professor Felix Cheung shares with The Globe and Mail: Happy Enough podcast, Yahoo! and CNBC Indonesia new insights from this year’s World Happiness Report.
- Department of English professor Ian Williams talks to ABC News Australia about the importance of conversations.
- Department of Economics associate professor Joseph Steinberg explains reciprocal tariffs to the Financial Times (paywall).
- Cinema Studies Institute sessional lecturer Adam Nayman talks to CBC Arts online and CBC Radio: Commotion about Disney’s Snow White remake.
March 25, 2025
- Department of Political Science professor and Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert talks to TVO: The Agenda about his book on cyber espionage.
- School of Cities adjunct professor Carolyn Whitzman discusses housing affordability in Canada with CTV News online.
- Department of Political Science and the Munk School’s Asian Institute associate professor Lynette Ong talks to CBC Radio: The Current and Canadian Press about Canada’s relationship with China.
March 26, 2025
- Department of Economics professor emeritus Gustavo Indart writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about the way forward for Canada in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs.
- Dean Melanie Woodin of the Faculty of Arts & Science is named the university’s 17th president, with comments from President Meric Gertler and Governing Council Chair Anna Kennedy. Covered by The Globe and Mail (paywall), Canadian Press, Times Higher Education (paywall), Toronto Star (paywall), CP24 and CTV News.
- Department of English professor Ian Williams is featured in CBC Books for his novel, Reproduction.
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics postdoctoral fellow Mike Walmsley shares with National Geographic (paywall) his work on the Euclid space telescope mission.
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments for CityNews online on Edmonton’s redrawn federal ridings.
March 27, 2025
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Timothy Snyder shares with Maclean’s insights from his books and observations from his travels around the world.
- Incoming professor Jason Stanley and professors Marci Shore and Timothy Snyder receive continued coverage for joining the university, with comments from University Professor Janice Stein, all of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, CNN: Amanpour & Company, The Guardian, Inside Higher Ed (paywall), Toronto Today, CBC Radio: Metro Morning, Times of India, Economic Times, Washington Post (paywall), CNN online, The New York Times (paywall), Newsweek, CBC News online and Toronto Star (paywall).
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics public outreach, communications & events strategist Ilana MacDonald explains in the Toronto Star (paywall) the northern lights forecast in Ontario.
- Department of History professor Dimitry Anastakis shares with The Globe and Mail (paywall) insights on the Bricklin SV-1 sports car and the auto industry in his new book.
- School of Cities adjunct professor Carolyn Whitzman comments for CBC News online on zoning rules for multi-family housing