Sylvia Bashevkin


Sylvia Beth Bashevkin, is Canadian academic and writer known for her research in the field of women and politics.

Career

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. She is a senior fellow of Massey College, Toronto.
In 2001, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2005, Bashevkin was named Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award by the Women’s Executive Network. Later in 2014, she was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Ursula Franklin Award in Gender Studies. That same year, she was also the recipient of the Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association.
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. The following year, Bashevkin was awarded the ISA Bertha Lutz Prize by the International Studies Association.

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