Department of Political Science | University of Waterloo

Awards and Honours

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Political Science Scholarships, Awards & Prizes

Philip Tanner (BA 1988, MA 1989)

Winner of the 2011 Arts Alumni Achievement Award.

This award recognizes Waterloo Arts alumni who have made outstanding contributions to their professional field and in community and public service.

Tanya De Mello (BA 2002)

Winner of the 2011 Faculty of Arts Young Alumni Award

This award recognizes Waterloo Arts alumni who have made outstanding contributions to their professional field and in community and public service.

Mark Shaan (BA 2002)

Winner of the Faculty of Arts Young Alumni Award

The award recognizes Arts young alumni who have made outstanding contributions to their professional field and in community and public service.

Dr. Veronica Kitchen

Professor Kitchen Wins Prestigious Ontario Early Researcher Award

Veronica Kitchen was awarded a 2010 Ontario Early Researcher Award for the project Integrated Counter Terrorism Institutions in Comparative Perspective. The award is one of 13 awarded to the University of Waterloo and the only one to be awarded to a researcher in the Arts. Dr. Kitchen is studying counter terrorism units in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom to help us to understand how officials from different parts of the domestic security bureaucracy work together, and what effects this co-operation has for society. The research includes studies of best practices, ethical trade-offs, and will contribute to understanding the benefits and pit falls of the disintegration of the boundaries between policing and security and domestic and international. The five-year grant will also fund opportunities for undergraduate and graduate student research and research assistance, and will include an outreach project involving high school students in a domestic security simulation.