September 16, 2022 by
A&S News
From King Charles III taking the throne to the new leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, 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.
September 9, 2022
- Michael Valpy, senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and instructor at St. Michael’s College writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about Canadian acceptance of King Charles III.
- Department of History professor emerita Margaret MacMillan talks to CBC Radio: The Current about Queen Elizabeth II’s legacy.
September 10, 2022
- Department of Economics professor emeritus Gustavo Indart writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) that the Bank of Canada should raise the interest rate to tame inflation.
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman talks to the Associated Press about the road ahead for Pierre Poilievre, Canada’s new Conservative Party leader.
- History professor emeritus Robert Bothwell comments for the Associated Press on Canada’s new head of state.
- Department of History and Rotman School of Management professor Dimitry Anastakis comments for CBC online on King Charles III and Canadian money.
September 12, 2022
- Department of Physics assistant professor Matthew Russo explains to CBC Radio: As It Happens his work converting images from the James Webb Spate Telescope into sound for people who are blind or visually impaired.
- Department of History and Caribbean Studies program associate professor Melanie Newton comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on Barbados becoming a republic.
September 13, 2022
- Department of History assistant professor Cindy Ewing who is also cross-appointed to the International Relations Program at Trinity College, talks to NBC News online about the Queen as a symbol of empire.
- Peter Loewen, director of the Munk School and professor of political science, discusses with BBC News online the new Conservative Party leader.
- Emile Dirks, post-doctoral fellow at the Munk School’s Citizen Lab, shares his research with The Economist (paywall) on China’s government mass-collecting DNA from Tibetans.
September 14, 2022
- Department of Economics professor Michael Smart comments for CTV News online on the effectiveness of GST rebates amid high inflation.
- Prentiss Dantzler, Department of Sociology assistant professor also affiliated with the School of Cities, tells Storeys that the number of affordable housing units designated by developers is often not enough.
- Centre for Indigenous Studies director and Department of History associate professor Susan Hill is noted in the Hamilton Spectator (paywall) for her expert testimony at a court proceeding concerning Indigenous land.
September 15, 2022
- Seva Gunitsky, associate professor of political science and Munk School’s Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies (CERES), says to Al Jazeera that Beijing will limit risk to its economy after the COVID-19 pandemic.