Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digitization and Democracy

Award Benefit: US$25,000 for one semester

The Department of Political Science will host a visiting scholar interested in the positive and negative implications of digital technologies for democracy.  This scholar will interact with existing and emerging research on these issues in the Political Science and other departments.  As one of Canada’s leading universities, known for its innovation and research intensiveness, McMaster University offers visiting scholars exciting and unique opportunities for research, education and collaboration.

There are a wide range of potential themes that this could involve, such as the negative impacts of online disinformation; online voting; digital activism; e-government; platform capitalism; digitization and shifting conceptions of public and private; the impacts of digitization political narratives and affects; online hate; democracies and cyberwar, among others.

Specializations: Online disinformation; online voting; digital activism; e-government; platform capitalism; digitization and shifting conceptions of public and private; the impacts of digitization political narratives and affects; online hate; democracies and cyberwar.

Questions: Brad Hector Fulbright Canada Program Officer (Scholars)

Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Scholarship

Award Benefit: US$25,000 for four months

The Indigenous Studies Department and the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute (MIRI) will host the Chair, who will also have opportunities to interact across McMaster’s diverse research communities. As one of Canada’s leading universities, known for its innovation and research intensiveness, McMaster University offers visiting scholars exciting and unique opportunities for research, education and global collaboration.

McMaster is interested in scholars whose research is aligned with the aspirations of Indigenous scholars, students and communities. This research may enhance existing areas of interdisciplinary expertise as identified by McMaster’s Indigenous scholars and community, including health, environment, language and culture, gender, peace studies and conflict resolution. The strength of Indigenous scholarship at McMaster University is evident in MIRI, a world-class facility recognized for its leadership in the field of Indigenous research.

MIRI facilitates and promotes increased visibility of Indigenous Knowledge and methodologies, creating space for dialogue between Western research approaches and Indigenous research collaborations, and facilitating research initiatives with multiple partners by building upon and enhancing existing relationships between McMaster and community networks. McMaster’s Department of Indigenous Studies was established in 2022, building on McMaster’s Indigenous Studies program, in existence for thirty years.

Specializations: Indigenous knowledge, epistemologies, methodologies, across multiple disciplines.

Questions: Brad Hector Fulbright Canada Program Officer (Scholars)

Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Public Banking

Award Benefit: US$25,000 for one semester

The Department of Political Science will host a visiting scholar interested in the political economy of public banking. This scholar will interact with existing and emerging research on this issue in the Political Science and other departments. The scholar will also interact with the Public Banking Project at McMaster. As one of Canada’s leading universities, known for its innovation and research intensiveness, McMaster University offers visiting scholars exciting and unique opportunities for research, education and collaboration.

There are a wide range of potential themes that this Research Chair in Public Banking could involve. These include democracy, governance, energy transitions, water, infrastructure, inclusion, legal frameworks, social movements, community development, public-public collaboration, Indigenous sovereignty and economic development, and histories of specific public banks, among others.

The scholar would be expected to share their research and expertise at McMaster in the form of a workshop or public lecture. There would be opportunities to develop a joint research proposal.

Specializations: Public banks; public policy; social policy; law; sustainable development; political economy; climate policy; Indigenous studies; green finance.

Questions: Brad Hector Fulbright Canada Program Officer (Scholars)