With the expected federal government expected to call an election this weekend, Carleton experts are available to discuss the election and the issues involved.
Elly Alboim
Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication
Email: Elly.Alboim@carleton.ca
Alboim’s teaching areas include television news and political reporting. He is a strategic communications and public opinion research specialist, consulting widely for public-and private-sector clients. He was parliamentary bureau chief for CBC Television News, senior producer of Live news specials and national political editor for the network.
Aneurin Bosley
Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication
Email: Aneurin.Bosley@carleton.ca
Bosley joined Carleton after 14 years as an editor at the Toronto Star. Much of that time was spent in digital, where Bosley worked extensively with interactive technologies. He’s interested in how these technologies can help journalists find and tell stories.
Bosley is working on research with Erin Tolley, looking at diversity among candidates in the federal election.
Before joining the Toronto Star, Bosley was the editor of The Internet Business Journal and a technology columnist on CBC Radio One in Ottawa. He was also writer and co-producer for Paul Kane Interactive, a digital exhibit that was installed at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Bill Cross
Professor in the Department of Political Science
Email: WilliamCross@cunet.carleton.ca
Cross is a student of Canadian and comparative political institutions and his work emphasizes the connections between civil society and political parties and legislatures. His recent work focuses on questions relating to intra-party democracy and organization. This includes studies of party leadership selection, candidate recruitment and selection, party membership, election campaigning and power relations between local and national party organizations.
Canadian and comparative political parties and election campaigning; comparative electoral systems; gender and representation; Canadian democratic institutions and political behavior.
Melissa Haussman
Professor in the Department of Political Science
Email: melissa.haussman@carleton.ca
Haussman will be available to speak to the media starting August 16, 2021. She teaches U.S. and comparative North American politics. Her scholarship has focused on questions of comparative political institutions and behaviour in the U.S. and Canada, with particular emphasis on gender issues. She is the author, co-author or co-editor of five books. She is currently co-editor of the International Journal of Canadian Studies.
Richard Nimijean
Instructor in the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies
Email: richard.nimijean@carleton.ca
Though Nimijean is currently in Switzerland, he is available to discuss the election.
He has researched, written, and taught in the areas of Canadian Studies, Canadian politics and public policy, regional innovation systems, science and technology policy, and scholarly communication.
Nimijean’s research interests focus on national identity and the branding of Canada, the relationship between Canada’s role as a global actor and the Canadian identity, and the politics of the brand state. His current research and writing projects include cross-border perspectives on Canada-US relations and global issues from a Canadian perspective.
Jon Pammett
Professor in the Department of Political Science
Email: Jon.Pammett@carleton.ca
Pammett is one of Canada’s premier specialists on survey research. His books have included Political Choice in Canada, Dynasties and Interludes, and four editions of Absent Mandate. Pammett is co-editor, with Chris Dornan, of The Canadian General Election of 2015. They will also be publishing a volume on the 2021 election. Pammett’s research on the nature of democratic participation includes a number of reports and articles for Elections Canada, including Explaining the Turnout Decline in Canadian Federal Elections: A New Survey of Non-Voters and Confronting the Problem of Declining Voter Turnout Among Youth.
Elliot Tepper
Emeritus professor in the Department of Political Science
Email: e_tepper@carleton.ca
Tepper is a professor of comparative politics and international relations. He regularly provides media commentary at home and abroad on a wide range of topics, providing context and deep background to the news stories of the day. Tepper’s areas of expertise include American politics, diversity issues in Canada, geopolitics, immigration and multiculturalism.
Allan Thompson
Associate director of the School of Journalism and Communication and Journalism program head
Email: Allan.Thompson@carleton.ca
Thompson joined Carleton after 17 years as a reporter with the Toronto Star.
From 1987 to 1993, Allan worked in the Star’s regional bureau in Mississauga, in the newsroom in Toronto on general assignment, in the Business section and for two years as immigration reporter. He spent a year in England and North Africa in 1990-91 on an internship with Gemini News Service. In 1994, he was posted to the Star’s Parliament Hill bureau in Ottawa, where he worked for most of the next decade as a political reporter, specializing in foreign affairs, defence and immigration issues.
Thompson was a candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada during the 2015 federal election, in the southwestern Ontario riding of Huron-Bruce and placed a close second to the Conservative incumbent. He does not currently hold a membership in any Canadian political party.
Stephen White
Professor in the Department of Political Science
Email: Steve.White@carleton.ca
White is available to speak to the media starting August 17, 2021. His research focuses on Canadian and comparative public opinion and political behaviour, as well as immigrant political incorporation. He is a co-editor of Comparing Canada: Methods and Perspectives on Canadian Politics, and has contributed articles and chapters on North American political cultures, attitudes towards immigration and immigrant political engagement.
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Friday, August 13, 2021 in Experts Available
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