CIGI Chair in Globalization and Public Policy

Balsillie School, Department of Political Science (UW)

Contact Information

Office Location:  HH 317
Telephone Number:  519.888.4567 x
E-mail: wdcolema @ uwaterloo.ca 

Education

 
PhD in Political Science, University of Chicago, 1979
MA in Political Science, University of Chicago, 1974
BA (Honours) in Political Science, Carelton University, 1972

Areas of Specialization

Globalization Studies
Public Policy
Agriculture and Food
Regulation 

Short Bio

William D. Coleman holds the Center for International Governance Chair in Globalization and Public Policy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and is Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. He was the Founding Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Born in Nelson, British Columbia, he received his B.A. from Carleton University and his M.A. and Ph.D from The University of Chicago. He has written five books: The Independence Movement in Quebec, 1945 1980 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984), Business and Politics: A Study in Collective Action (Montreal: McGill Queen's University Press, 1988), (with Michael M. Atkinson) The State, Business and Industrial Change in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989). This book was awarded the Charles H. Levine Prize for the best book in the fields of public administration and public policy by the Structure of Government Research Committee of the International Political Science Association. The two most recent books are Financial Services, Globalization and Domestic Policy Change: A Comparison of North America and the European Union (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996) and Agriculture in the New Global Economy (with Wyn Grant and Timothy Josling) (Edward Elgar: 2004). He has also edited three books in the public policy field. He is the Project Director of the Globalization and Autonomy Series of books that is being published by the University of British Columbia Press. The first two books in this series, Global Ordering: Institutions and Autonomy in a Changing World, edited by Louis W. Pauly and William D. Coleman and Renegotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts, edited by Diana Brydon and William D. Coleman were published in May 2008. The second two were published in 2009: Empires and Autonomy: Moments in the History of Globalization edited with Stephen Streeter and John Weaver and Unsettled Legitimacy: Power and Authority in a Global Era edited with Steven Bernstein. In addition to these books, he has written articles dealing with Quebec politics, business government relations, changes in agricultural policy, the making of financial services policy and globalization that have been published in journals in Canada, the United States and Europe.

In 1996, he received the Konrad Adenauer Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Bonn, Germany, awarded annually to a scholar in the humanities and social sciences in Canada. He used this award to pursue further research on agricultural policy in Germany and in the European Union. In January 2002, he was awarded a Major Collaborative Research Initiatives grant of 2.5 million dollars (CDN) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Together with 40 colleagues from across Canada and another 43 from outside Canada, he studied the relationships between "Globalization and Autonomy." He was named a Fellow/Lauréat by the Fondation Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in May 2007.

He is a 1994 winner of a Canada-wide 3M Teaching Fellow awarded by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. In 1997, he was awarded an Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations Teaching Award. McMaster University awarded him the President's Award for Educational Leadership in 2002.

He is an avid long distance runner.

 Photo credit: "Michel Hardy-Vallée/The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation

Most recent scholarly publications

William D. Coleman and Diana Brydon, "Globalization and Autonomy: An Overview", Globalizations, September 2009, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 323-338

William D. Coleman and Josephine Dionisio, "Globalization, Collaborative Research and Cognitive Justice," Globalizations, September 2009, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 389-403

Steven Bernstein and William Coleman, eds. Unsettled Legitimacy: Political Community, Power, and Authority in a Global Era, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009.

 Steven Bernstein and William Coleman, "Autonomy, Legitimacy and Power in an Era of Globalization" in Bernstein and Coleman, eds, Unsettled Legitimacy: Political Community, Power, and Authority in a Global Era, pp. 2-29.

William Coleman and Tim Mau, "French-English Relations in Comprehensive Business Associations," in Negotiating Language: Pattern of Association in Canadian Voluntary Associations, David Cameron and Richard Simeon, eds, University of British Columbia Press, 2009, pp. 23-51.

Stephen Streeter, John Weaver and William Coleman, "Introduction" in Streeter, Weaver and Coleman eds, Empires and Autonomy: Moments in the History of Globalization, University of British Columbia Press, 2009, pp. 1-23.

William Coleman, Louis W. Pauly, and Diana Brydon, " Globalization, Autonomy, and Institutional Change" in Pauly and Coleman, eds, Global Ordering: Institutions and Autonomy in a Changing World, University of British Columbia Press, 2008, pp. 1-20.

William Coleman, "Agricultural Trade and the WTO" in Pauly and Coleman, eds, Global Ordering: Institutions and Autonomy in a Changing World, University of British Columbia Press, 2008, pp. 64-84

Recent academic/professional awards

Lauréat Trudeau Foundation Fellow 2007