Sylvia Bashevkin

Bashevkin is a professor in the Department of Political Science in the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science. From 2005 to 2011, she was Principal of University College, Toronto.[2] She is a senior fellow of Massey College, Toronto.[1]

In 2001, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[3] In 2005, Bashevkin was named Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award by the Women's Executive Network.[4] Later in 2014, she was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Ursula Franklin Award in Gender Studies.[5] That same year, she was also the recipient of the Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association.[6]

In 2017, Bashevkin published an article titled "Listening to women leaders: Feminist narratives among US foreign policy" which was subsequently short listed for the 2018 Jill Vickers Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association.[7] The following year, Bashevkin was awarded the ISA Bertha Lutz Prize by the International Studies Association.[8]

• Women As Foreign Policy Leaders: National Security and Gender Politics in Superpower America (Oxford University Press, 2018)
• Women, Power, Politics: The Hidden Story of Canada's Unfinished Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2009)
• Tales of Two Cities: Women and Municipal Restructuring in London and Toronto (University of British Columbia Press, 2006)
• Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work and Social Policy Reform (University of Toronto Press and University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002)
• Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times (University of Chicago Press and University of Toronto Press, 1998)
• Toeing the Lines: Women and Party Politics in English Canada (2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1993)
• True Patriot Love: The Politics of Canadian Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 1991)
• Toeing the Lines: Women and Party Politics in English Canada (University of Toronto Press, 1985)