Research

While the department covers all the main fields in Political Science, we also have research expertise and knowledge in the following research clusters. Visit the following research clusters for more information on the faculty members who teach and conduct research in these specific areas, and the types of projects currently being conducted in the department.

• Climate and Sustainability
• Critical International Relations
• Digital Democracy
• Gender and Politics
• Globalization
• Global Political Economy
• Labour Issues
• Politics of Representation
• Radical Political Theory
• Social Policy (including health policy)

To learn more about the research we do in Political Science, browse our research snaps. Snaps are short, readable summaries of what we do, what we discover, and why it matters.

Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chairs are pre-arranged affiliations to host exceptional scholars who conduct research important to that university. Partner universities are excited to welcome the Fulbright Visiting Chairs into campus life and encourage them to engage with students and faculty, and the broader community. You can guest lecture at university courses, mentor students, lecture in public venues, network, and promote your research, while representing the Fulbright program, and your home and host institutions.

Research in Progress Seminar Series (RIPS), hosted by the Department of Political Science, McMaster University

Fall 2021

Tuesday, October 26 at 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. online

• Reckoning with the colonial present: the failures of reconciliation and the denialism of the Canadian state
  This speaker panel brings together:
  Vanessa Watts, McMaster University
  Robert A. Innes, McMaster University
  David B. MacDonald, University of Guelph