A&S scholars sharing their expertise in the media this week

September 24, 2021 by A&S News

From this week’s Canadian federal election to the visibility of property taxes as a source of revenue for cities, 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 17, 2021

  • Nelson Wiseman, a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science, and Robert Bothwell, a professor emeritus in the Department of History and the International Relations program at Trinity College, speak in an Associated Press story about Conservative Party of Canada leader Erin O’Toole’s strategy to defeat Liberal Party of Canada leader Justin Trudeau in the federal election.
  • In the Washington Post (paywall), Robert Bothwell compares and contrasts Erin O’Toole with Justin Trudeau, and in Maclean’s, Nelson Wiseman comments on the varying outcomes and impacts of Canadian elections over time.
  • Kevin Edmonds, an assistant professor in the Caribbean Studies program at New College, comments in a Canadaland story alleging that a news outlet catering to the Caribbean diaspora in the Toronto area promotes far-right conspiracies and anti-mask and anti-vaccine messages.
  • A study co-authored by Department of Sociology professor and chair Scott Schieman that found while evangelical Christians in the United States sought comfort in their religion during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic their politics made them less likely to see the virus as a threat, is described in the Washington Post.
  • Research with contributions from Department of Art History professor Carl Knappett describing the discovery of an underwater ancient coastline with sunken buildings and shipwrecks along an eastern section of the Mediterranean island of Crete, is reported in Hellenic News.

September 18, 2021

September 19, 2021

  • Lynette Ong, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Asian Institute at the Munk School, comments in a Voice of America story examining the influence of relations between Canada and China on the Canadian election.

September 20, 2021

  • Eric Merkley, an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, speculates in The Guardian on the outcome of Canada’s federal election, given a variety of fractures within the Canadian electorate.
  • Nelson Wiseman speculates in Yahoo! News on how Canadians might vote in the federal election given that many viewed it as unnecessary, particularly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology assistant professor Chelsea Rochman speaks in a Global News story about hopes for a continued commitment by the Liberal Party of Canada to address plastic pollution following their re-election.

September 21, 2021

September 22, 2021

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