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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.

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Phil Triadafilopoulos, Acting Director (2023-2024), 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

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Research Assistant

Meet 2024-25 Research Fellows

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PhD candidate, Department of Sociology

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PhD Candidate, Women and Gender Studies in the Women and Gender Studies Institute

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PhD candidate, Department of Sociology 

Shelah Kwok
 

JD and MGA Candidate, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy/Faculty of Law

Thomas Law
 

MA Candidate, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Carolina Reyes Marquez
 

PhD candidate, Department of Political Science  

Sarina Simmons
 

PhD Candidate, Department for the Study of Religion

Maleeha
 

PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology

Valeria Espinosa
 

Master Candidate, Department of Political Science 

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Master of Global Affairs Candidate, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Visiting Research Fellows

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PhD candidate, Leiden University, The Netherlands

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PhD candidate, King's College London