Canadian Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Rebecca Wallace will be joining our team as a John A. Sproul Research Fellow for the spring 2021 semester. Dr. Wallace will assist program director Irene Bloemraad in conducting research and analysis measuring Canadians' attitudes towards immigration. Friends of the program may remember her from a lecture she gave in March 2020, in which she probed how Canadian media frames the "deservingness" of Indigenous and immigrant welfare recipients.
Dr. Wallace received her Ph.D. in political studies at Queen’s University, and holds a B.A.H. with distinction and an M.A. in political studies from the same institution. Her research focuses on Canadian politics, with a focus on visible minorities and immigrants. She was previously a doctoral fellow at the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations and a research assistant for the Canadian Opinion Research Archive, and held a Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council from 2016-2019. Following the conclusion of her term at Berkeley, she will start a faculty appointment as am assistant professor of political science at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia on July 1.
We are thrilled to have Dr. Wallace join the program, and look forward to a productive partnership.