Claire Turenne Sjolander has been a professor at the University of Ottawa since 1990 and is currently Professor of Political Science at the School of Political Studies. Since 2000, she has held a number of academic leadership positions at the University of Ottawa, including Director of the School of Political Studies, Director of the Institute of Women’s Studies, Vice-Dean (Graduate Studies) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Interim Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and since 2017, Vice-Provost of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Critical Studies on Security as well as a member of the Advisory Board for the series Politique mondiale, published by Les presses de l’Université de Montréal. From 2005-2007, she served as President of the International Studies Association (Canada region). She served as Vice-President of the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies OCGS for the academic year 2018-2019, as President in 2019-2020, and is currently completing her term as Past-President (2020-2021).
Professor Turenne Sjolander’s research interests focus on the intersections between two main areas of study: Canadian foreign policy, and gender and international relations. Among her notable publications, she co-edited (with Heather A. Smith) the book Canada in the World: Internationalism in Canadian Foreign Policy, (Oxford University Press, 2013), and won the Marcel Cadieux Distinguished Writing Award for her article “Through the Looking Glass: Canadian Identity and the War of 1812,” published in 2014 in International Journal. She was awarded the 2012 Distinguished Scholar Award by the International Studies Association (Canada region), the University of Ottawa’s Excellence in Education Award (2009), and the Faculty of Social Sciences’ Professor of the Year award in 2004. During the summer 2014, she was International Visiting Professor at the Faculty of International Relations at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, and in 2008, was the Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Centre for the Study of Canada, State University of New York (SUNY), Plattsburg, New York.