Dr. John Sutcliffe

• Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1998 (Social and Political Science)
• M.A., University of Calgary, 1991 (Political Science)
• M.A. (Hons) University of Edinburgh, 1989 (Modern History and Politics)

I began working at the University of Windsor in July 2000.  In that time, I have served as Department Head and Graduate Chair.

My research interests cover a range of topics including municipal politics, public transit, and immigration in Canada. In collaboration with Bill Anderson, I have also researched and published a book on the Canada-U.S. border which examined the impact of the first Trump presidency on the border and Canada-U.S. relations.

My latest book, forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press, is Campus to Career: Your Guide to the Working World. This book examines job searching and is designed to help university students secure a job and career following their graduation from university.

My earlier research focused on the place and importance of local government within the European Union both as single case studies and in comparative perspective.

• POLS 1300   Comparative Politics in a Changing World
• POLS 2440   Government and Politics in Europe
• POLS 2680   International Organizations
• POLS 3260   Local Government
• POLS 3670   The Politics of the European Union

• Sutcliffe, John B. (forthcoming). Campus to Career: Your Guide to the Working World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

• Shaheen, Tartil, & Sutcliffe, John B. (2025). ‘The Framing of Temporary Foreign Workers in Canadian Parliamentary Debates.’ American Review of Canadian Studies 55(2): 118–139.

• Sutcliffe, John B. and Cipkar, Sarah. "Municipalities, Public Services, and the Government-Citizen Interface in Comparative Perspective". Canadian Urban Governance in Comparative Perspective, edited by Kristin Good and Jen Nelles, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024, pp. 274-308.

• Sutcliffe, John B., Bahnam, Katrina, and Shaheen, Tartil 2023. ‘Transit Equity in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Six Ontario Transit Authorities.’ American Journal of Canadian Studies 53(1): 22-41.

• Sutcliffe, John B. and Cipkar, Sarah 2022. ‘The Role of Neighbourhood Groups in Municipal Governance: A Case Study of Abandoned Buildings in Windsor.’ Canadian Journal of Urban Research 31(1): 33-47. https://cjur.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/cjur/article/view/331

• Sutcliffe, John B. and Anderson, William P., The Canada-US Border in the 21st Century: Trade, Immigration and Security in the Age of Trump, Routledge, 1-280, 2019.
• Megan, Auer; Sutcliffe, John B. and Lee, Martha F., Framing the ‘White Widow’: Using intersectionality to uncover complex representations of female terrorism in news media, Media, War & Conflict, 2018
• Sutcliffe, John B. and Cipkar, Sarah, Citizen Participation in the Public Transportation Policy Process: A Comparison of Detroit, Michigan, and Hamilton, Ontario, Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 26(2), 33-51, 2017
• Sutcliffe, John B., Big Business and Local Government: Matty Moroun, the Ambassador Bridge and the City of Windsor, Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 23(1), 55-73, 2014.
• Nelles, Jen and Sutcliffe, John B., On the Boundary: Local Authorities, Intergovernmental Relations and the Governance of Border Infrastructure in the Detroit-Windsor Region, Regional and Federal Studies, 23(2), 213-232, 2013
• Phull, Kiran K. and Sutcliffe, John B., Crossroads of Integration? The Future of Schengen in the Wake of the Arab Spring, The EU and the Eurozone Crisis, 177-195, Ashgate, 2013, Editor(s) - Laursen, Finn.