Elizabeth McCallion, a PhD candidate at Queen’s University, has been awarded the 2019-2020 Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship. The award was established by CAUT to honour the memory of the Association’s first Executive Secretary and comes with a $5000 scholarship.

McCallion is studying the representation of women in the Canadian Parliament. She is also examining the effects of the recent Senate reforms on women’s representation in the upper house.

McCallion holds a B.A. from the University of Western ­Ontario in History and Political Science, and won the Gold Medal in her graduating class. She also holds an M.A. from Queen’s University in Political and Legal Thought.