Professor Ayelet Shachar (photo credit: MPI-MMG 2020)
Professor of Law, Political Science & Global Affairs Ayelet Shachar, R. F. Harney Professor and Director of the Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies Program at U of T's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, has won the 2024 American Political Science Association (APSA) Migration and Citizenship Section Career Achievement Award.
Shachar is renowned for her pathbreaking scholarship on citizenship, migration, cultural diversity and women's rights, and the fraught relations between human rights law and territorial conceptions of sovereignty.
Shachar, who is cross-appointed to the Faculty of Law and the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Arts & Science, has written multiple award-winning books, shared her research with law and policymakers in Canada and abroad, and provided pro bono consultation to non-governmental organizations, the European Parliament, and the World Bank. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize – one of Europe’s most prestigious research awards.
The APSA Award recognizes and celebrates career achievement through outstanding scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship that has advanced the understanding of migration and/or citizenship in political life.
The award cites Professor Shachar’s work which has “shift[ed] the scholarly paradigms we use to understand big questions about migration, citizenship and belonging.”
“Her considerable corpus of published work has influenced every corner of our field.”
The citation further highlights Shachar’s “rare talent for making truly original arguments about familiar subjects,” her “tireless investment in institution-building” and steadfast commitment to “nurturing of others’ careers and research.”
Professor Shachar is the first woman and youngest scholar to have earned this accolade.
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