June 25, 2021 by
A&S News
From COVID-19 vaccine preferences among Canadians to the impact of the Pride flag, scholars 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.
June 18, 2021
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Peter Loewen comments in the Globe and Mail on preferences among Canadians regarding COVID-19 vaccines.
- Aditi Mehta, an assistant professor in the Urban Studies Program at Innis College, writes in Spacing on the importance of speaking with elder citizens to preserve oral histories of urban areas.
- Department of Political Science professor Nelson Wiseman speaks in the Toronto Star about Ontario premier Doug Ford’s cabinet shuffle.
- Christopher Parsons, a senior research associate with the Citizen Lab at the Munk School, comments in the Toronto Star on the possibility that Canada’s Communications Security Establishment agency violated privacy laws by sharing information about Canadian citizens with other government agencies.
- Randy Boyagoda, a professor in the Department of English and vice-dean, undergraduate of the Faculty of Arts & Science, offers a critique of a lecture examining capitalism and climate change on an episode of CBC Radio’s Ideas.
June 20, 2021
- Department of Sociology professor and chair Scott Schieman co-authors an op-ed in the Toronto Star examining the reopening of offices to people who have been working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic and wish to continue doing so.
June 21, 2021
- Department of Psychology PhD candidate Yoobin Park comments in The Atlantic on showing gratitude to one’s partner in romantic relationships.
- Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations assistant professor Anne Porter describes in Smithsonian Magazine the discovery of what may be the world’s oldest memorial to fallen warriors in modern-day Syria.
- Ahead of the NBA draft lottery in which the Toronto Raptors held a 7.5 per cent chance of winning first place, Department of Statistical Sciences professor Jeffrey Rosenthal is cited in a Toronto Star story exploring other possibilities with similar odds.
June 24, 2021
- Julia Mikhailova, an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, and Alison Smith, professor and chair of the Department of History, comment in a CBC News story examining the removal of a brand of vodka from LCBO stores following complaints that the name is a reference to former Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin.
- John English, director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at Trinity College, comments in a Toronto Star story about how Canada experienced the Roaring Twenties and why a recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic might be similar.
- Mark McGowan, a professor in the Department of History and interim principal of St. Michael’s College, speaks in Yahoo News on the public funding of religious-based institutions such as schools and hospitals in Ontario.
- Department of Anthropology PhD candidate Elliott Tilleczek comments in a story in The Atlantic examining the impact of the Pride flag.