Kenneth McRoberts
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Glendon School of Public Affairs
Kenneth McRoberts, Acting Director of the School
Born in Vancouver, B.C., Kenneth McRoberts attended elementary and secondary school there. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago.
He became Principal of Glendon College, York University, on July 1, 1999. Previously, he had been Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts at York University and had also served terms as Director of the Graduate Programme in Political Science and Director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies. He has also completed a six-year term as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Canadian Studies. Currently, he is Past-President of the Canadian Political Science Association.
Professor McRoberts has written journal articles and book chapters on a variety of topics including Quebec politics, Canadian federalism, and constitutional questions. He is author of Quebec: Social Change and Political Crisis, which is now in its third edition with Oxford University Press and has appeared in French translation with Les Éditions Boréal. In 1991, Professor McRoberts gave the Sixth Annual Robarts Lecture at York University, entitled Avoiding the Issue: English Canada and Quebec. Also, he has edited Beyond Quebec: Taking Stock of Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press) and co-edited (with Patrick J. Monahan) The Charlottetown Accord, the Referendum and the Future of Canada (University of Toronto Press).
Professor McRoberts authored Misconceiving Canada: the struggle for national unity, published by Oxford University Press in 1997 and in French translation by Les Éditions Boréal in 1999. His most recent book, Catalonia: Nation-building without a State, was published in 2001 by Oxford University Press. A Catalan edition was published in 2003.
In June 2004, the French government named Professor McRoberts “Officier de l’Ordre des Palmes académiques”. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Laval University in September 2004.
