Peter Howard Russell (born 1932) is a Canadian political scientist, serving as professor emeritus of political science at the

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, where he taught from 1958 to 1997. He was a member of the Toronto chapter of

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. He was the Principal of

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, at the University of Toronto, from 1973 to 1978. He is the author of several books including: ''Two Cheers for Minority Government: The Evolution of Canadian Parliamentary Democracy'', ''Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People?'', and ''Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English Settler Colonialism''. Russell is an alumnus of the University of Toronto Schools,

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in the University of Toronto, and the

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, where he studied as a

Rhodes Scholar The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...

. Russell was the 2012 winner of the American Political Science Association's Mildred A. Schwartz Award. He is also an Officer of the

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. Russell was Director of Research for the McDonald Commission on the

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, a member of the Federal Task Force on Comprehensive Land Claims, President of the Canadian Political Science Association, and chair of the Research Advisory Committee for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

References

External links

Peter H. Russell archival papers
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University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services

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