
Ayelet Shachar (FRSC), Program Director & R.F. Harney Professor
Ayelet Shachar is a professor of Law, Political Science, and Global Affairs. She has published extensively on the topics of citizenship, global inequality, competitive migration regimes, cultural diversity and gender equality. Her research is motivated by the need to develop new legal principles to address the most pressing issues of our time: how to live together in diverse societies, how to grant rights to those who lack formal access to membership, and how to tame the ever-expanding reach of borders and migration control in a world of persistent inequality.

Phil Triadafilopoulos, Acting Director, Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies
Phil Triadafilopoulos is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He teaches courses in political science and public policy at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and conducts research in the areas of immigration and citizenship policy in Europe and North America. His current research examines: (i) the extension of public funding for Islamic religious education in Germany; (ii) how mainstream conservative political parties in Europe and North America are adapting their electoral strategies in response to more culturally diverse electorates; (iii) the degree to which Canada is “exceptional” with respect to immigration politics and policymaking; and (iv) the dialectical interplay of liberal openness and illiberal closure in contemporary managed migration policies.
Harney Program staff
Program Coordinator
Research Assistant
Meet 2023-24 Research Fellows
PhD candidate, Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education
Master candidate, Industrial Relations and Human Resources
PhD candidate, Department of Sociology
PhD candidate, History with a Collaborative Specialization in Food Studies
Master of Public Policy candidate, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
PhD candidate, Department of Political Science
Master of European History candidate at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
PhD candidate, Department of Political Science
Doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology
Doctoral candidate, Department of Geography and Planning
Visiting Research Fellows
PhD candidate, Leiden University, The Netherlands
PhD candidate, King's College London