Dr. Cheryl Collier

Assistant Professor

Email: ccollier@uwindsor.ca
Phone: 519-253-3000 ext 2351
Office: Chrysler Hall North 1150
Winter 2011 office hours: Mon 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Tues, 1:30 - 2:30 pm; or by appointment

Education
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2006

Courses taught
45-100 Introduction to Canadian Government and Politics (Fall 2011)
45-201 Current Issues in Canadian Politics
45-211 Women and Politics
45-275 Research Methods in Political Science
45-309 Canadian Provincial Government (Fall 2011)
45-412 Canadian Federalism
45-500 Scope and Approaches to Political Science (Fall 2011)
45-514 Canadian Politics: Participation and Process

Research
Cheryl N. Collier teaches in the areas of Canadian politics, women and politics, and research methods.   Her primary areas of research include Canadian federal and provincial child care and anti-violence policy, comparative women’s movements and gender, federalism and political parties.  Her present research examines the impact of federalism on sub-national child care advocacy in Canada and the United States.  She has also recently completed a research project examining shifting levels of feminist discourse inside of child care and anti-violence policy debates both federally and provincially in Canada. She is presently a member of the university’s cross-disciplinary Health Research Centre for the Study of Violence against Women.  

She is currently working on a book based on her dissertation research examining how left- and right-wing party differences impact women’s movement policy success and failure at the provincial level in Canada.  Her recent publications include “Navigating the Shoals of Canadian Federalism: Child Care Advocacy” 2010 (with Rianne Mahon), in Melissa Haussman, Jill Vickers and Marian Sawer (eds.), Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance (Ashgate), “Violence against Women or Violence against ‘People’?: Neo-liberalism, ‘Post-neo-liberalism’, and Anti-violence Policy in Ontario and British Columbia” 2009, in Alexandra Dobrowolsky (ed.), Women and Public Policy in Canada: Neo-liberalism and After? (Oxford), and “Neoliberalism and Violence Against Women: Can Retrenchment Convergence Explain the Path of Provincial Anti-violence Policy, 1985-2005?” 2008, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 41:1, 19-42.

Principal publications

Refereed articles
“Neoliberalism and Violence against Women: Can Retrenchment Convergence Explain the Path of Provincial Anti-Violence Policy, 1985-2005?” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 41:1, March 2008 (pp.19-42).

Book chapters
“Navigating the Shoals of Canadian Federalism: Child Care Advocacy,” in Melissa Haussman, Jill Vickers and Marian Sawer (eds.), Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance, Ashgate, 2010 (with Rianne Mahon).

"Is Canada Ready for a New Universal Social Program? Comparing the Cases of Universal Medicare in the 1960s and 'Universal' Child Care in the New Millennium," in Gordon DiGiacomo and Maryantonett Flumian (eds.), The Case for Centralized Federalism, University of Ottawa Press. 2010.

“Violence Against Women or Violence Against ‘People’? Assessing the Impact of Neoliberalism and Post-neoliberalism on Anti-Violence Policy in Ontario and British Columbia,” in Alexandra Dobrowolsky (ed.), Women and Public Policy in Canada Today: A Study of Continuity and Change, Oxford University Press, 2009.

“One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Child Care Policy from Martin to Harper,” in Allan M. Maslove (ed.), How Ottawa Spends, 2008/09, 2008 (with Rianne Mahon).

“Working with Parties: Success and Failure of Child Care Advocates in British Columbia and Ontario in the 1990s,” in Susan Prentice (ed.), Changing Child Care: Five Decades of Child Care Advocacy and Policy in Canada, Fernwood Publishing: Halifax, 2001 (pp.117-131).

“Judging Women’s Political Success in the 1990s,” in Graham White (ed.), The Government and Politics of Ontario, 5th ed., University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 1997 (pp. 268-283).

In progress
Feminizing Party Difference: Provincial Child Care and Anti-Violence Policy in Ontario and British Columbia - book proposal reviewed and accepted by UBC Press.