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Antoinette Handley

Professor

Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Political Science

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  • Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Political Science
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BIO

Antoinette Handley is a scholar of business in Africa. Her research focuses on business as a political and social actor; capitalist and middle classes in Africa; the comparative political economy of development; and the role of elites on the continent.

Handley is a Full Professor in the Department of Political Science. She serves also as Vice-Dean, Graduate Education in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Acting Dean
    University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts & Science, Toronto, Canada1 Jul 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
  • Professor
    University of Toronto, Department of Political Science, Toronto, Canada1 Jul 2021 - present
  • Vice-Dean, Graduate Education
    University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science, Toronto, Canada1 Jul 2021 - present
  • Chair and Graduate Chair
    University of Toronto, Department of Political Science, Toronto, Canada2017 - 30 Jun 2021
  • World Politics Visiting Research Fellow
    Princeton University, Princeton, United States2016 - 2017
  • Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Department of Political Science, Toronto, Canada2009 - 30 Jun 2021
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Department of Political Science, Toronto, Canada2003 - 2008

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Director of Studies and Deputy National Director
    South African Institute of International Affairs, Johannesburg, South Africa2 Sep 1996 - 1 Jul 1998
  • Latin America Research Fellow
    South African Institute of International Affairs, Johannesburg, South Africa4 Sep 1995 - 30 Aug 1996

DEGREES

  • Ph.D., Political Science
    Princeton University, Princeton, United States
  • M.Phil., International Relations
    University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • B.A. Hons, English, Pol, Law
    University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

AVAILABILITY

  • Mentoring (long-term)
  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Collaborative projects
  • Media enquiries

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • Institute for Pandemics (IfP)

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