Janice Gross Stein
Director of the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.
Last Contribution:
No Reason for Optimism
Contributor Biography
Dr. Stein is the Belzberg Professor of conflict management in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent publications include: Networks of Knowledge: Innovation in International Learning (2000), The Cult of Efficiency (2001), Street Protests and Fantasy Parks (2001) and Canada by Mondrian (2006). She is the co-author, with Eugene Lang, of the prize-winning The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar (2007).
She was a Massey Lecturer (2001) and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an "outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate." She has received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Alberta, the University of Cape Breton, and McMaster University. She is a member of both the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario.
