Morag Barbara Arneil is a Scottish-Canadian political scientist. She is a Professor of Political Science at the
University of British Columbia
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and a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada
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Early life and education
Arneil completed her PhD at
University College London
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. Her thesis was entitled ''All the world was America: John Locke and the American Indian.''
Career
Following her PhD, Arneil moved to North America and joined the faculty in the Department of Political Science at the
University of British Columbia
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. In 1996, she published her thesis in a book entitled ''John Locke and America: the defence of English colonialism.'' A few years later, she published her second book ''Politics and feminism.'' In 2013, Arneil was named a senior recipient of UBC's Killam Research Prize in recognition of her "outstanding research and scholarly contributions." From 2016 to 2019, Arneil served as Department Head of the Political Science Department at UBC.
In 2017, Arneil published ''Domestic Colonies: The Turn Inward to Colony'' which received numerous awards. It received the 2018
American Political Science Association
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David Easton Award for being "a book that broadens the horizons of contemporary political science by engaging issues of philosophical significance in political life through any of a variety of approaches in the social sciences and humanities." It also won the 2018 C.B. Macpherson Prize in Political Theory from the
Canadian Political Science Association
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. In 2022, Arneil's scholarly work was recognized with an election to be a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada
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She was appointed to the
Order of Canada
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To coincide with the ...
in June 2023.
Selected publications
*''John Locke and America: The defence of English colonialism'' (1996)
*''Politics and feminism'' (1999)
*''Diverse Communities: The Problem with Social Capital'' (2006)
*''Sexual Justice/Cultural Justice: Critical Perspectives in Theory and Practise'' (with
Avigail Eisenberg,
Monique Deveaux,
Rita Dhamoon, 2006)
*''Political Theory and Disability'' (with
Nancy Hirschmann, 2017)
*''Domestic Colonies: The Turn Inward to Colony'' (2017)
References
External links
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Living people
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Place of birth missing (living people)
Canadian political scientists
Women political scientists
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Alumni of University College London
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Year of birth missing (living people)
Members of the Order of Canada
Scientists from Vancouver
British emigrants to Canada