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Research

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Affiliated faculty and researchers: please contact us at csus@utoronto.ca to have your latest publications added to this page.

Our research philosophy

The Centre for the Study of the United States (CSUS) serves as a leading hub for scholarship and teaching on American politics, society, history, and culture. Bringing together scholars from across the social sciences and humanities, we highlight and promote research about the United States and its role in the world.

Recent Publications

Frasier Institute

Number of temporary foreign workers in Canada increased nearly 20 times from 2000 to 2023, yielding mixed results for Canadians and economy

By Morley Gunderson

The Conversation

Health and competence are shaping Trump’s presidency. What about his predecessors?

By Ronald W. Pruessen

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy

Truth and Ethics in a Pragmatist Functional Metaphysics

By Cheryl Misak

University of Chicago Press Journals

Critical Response IV: This Photo Does Not Exist: Generativity and the AI Gaze

By Avery Slater

The Journal of Politics

The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions

By Jared J. Finnegan, Phillip Y. Lipscy, Jonas Meckling, and Florence Metz

Bloomsbury Publishing

The Crossroads of Music and Literature: New Essays on the Muse of Song

By Kelly Baron and Andrew DuBois

Religious Studies Review

Centipedes, AI, and Multiple Emilys: A Conversation about Pedagogy and the Study of Religion

By Ken Derry and Emily Gravett

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Indigenous Religions

Film Studies

By Ken Derry, Gabriel Estrada, and Jon Ivan Gill

The National Teaching & Learning Forum

Learning through Failure across the Disciplines

By Fiona Rawle, Nicole Laliberté, Mairi Cowan, Ken Derry, Dan Guadagnolo

The Conversation

Is the End Looming for Canada’s border Pre-Clearance Program with the United States?

By Emily Gilbert

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Pragmatist Framework for Constructing a New Humanhood

By Marga Vicedo

Institute of Race Relations

Seeding the Divide: John Tanton, the Sierra Club and the Struggle Over US Environmentalism

By Emine Fidan Elcioglu

The History of Social Science, University of Pennsylvania Press

Closing the Domestic Intelligence Gap: Walter Mondale’s Proposal for a National Council of Social Advisers and the Uneasy Partnership between Social Science and the Federal Government

By Mark Solovey

University of Calgary Press

The Next War: Indications Intelligence in the Early Cold War

By Timothy Andrews Sayle

The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville

Inscrutable Malice: Moby Dick and the Resistance to Capital

By Paul Downes

The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville

Typee and Trees

By Melissa Gniadek

Publius: The Journal of Federalism

Variation All the Way Down: Charting the Subnational Trajectories of School Choice Policy across and within Multicultural Democracies

By Salar Asadolahi, James Farney, Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos, Linda A. White

Association for Critical Sociology

Red Pills, Blue Books: Youth Political Consciousness and the Epistemic Struggle Between YouTube and the University

By Emine Fidan Elcioglu

The Art Bulletin Vol 107

Through and Against Abstraction: Thinking Space with Smokehouse Associates

By Maya Harakawa

Ethnic and Racial Studies

“I began to think more like a Canadian”: how second-generation south Asian and Chinese Canadians confront racism by becoming conservative voters

By Emine Fidan Elcioglu

Progress in Economic Geography

A Role for Economic Geographers in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Framework: Global Pipelines and the Mobility Challenge

By Jan Jacob Vogelaar and Shiri Breznitz 

Population Research and Policy Review

Children’s Pathways of Exposure to Child Protective Services Over the Life Course and by Race/Ethnicity

By Amanda Sheely, Frank Edwards & Kelley Fong 

Critical Studies in Media Communication

“This is real beauty”: Pushing the Boundaries of Aesthetic Citizenship Online

By Jordan Foster and David Pettinicchio

Communication Research

Promoting Mis/Disinformation Literacy Among Adults: A Scoping Review of Interventions and Recommendations

By Megan Boler, Hoda Gharib, Yoon-Ji Kweon, Amanda Trigiani, and Barbara Perry