Editorial Board
The Policy Exchange Editorial Board undertakes the peer-review process of selecting articles for publication in the print quarterly. It is composed of undergraduate and graduate students, in addition to select staff from the University of Toronto.
Prof. Kenneth R. Bartlett
Kenneth R. Bartlett is a Renaissance historian, author, and professor at the University of Toronto, where he earned his doctoral degree in 1978. He was founding director of the University of Toronto Art Centre, and the Office of Teaching Advancement, founder and program coordinator of the Faculty of Arts and Science’s flagship undergraduate experience initiatives: the First-Year Seminars, Research Opportunities Program and Independent Experiential Study Program. He teaches in Victoria College’s Renaissance Studies Program, which he also helped established in 1979, and holds graduate appointments in the Departments of History and Art, as well as the Centre for Medieval Studies. Prof. Bartlett is on leave for the 2009-2010 academic year, but continues to be a presence at both Victoria College and the University of Toronto.
Tina Jiwon Park
Tina J. Park is a recent graduate of Trinity College, University of Toronto,with an Honours B.A. in international relations and history. In her undergraduate years, Tina was actively involved with the International Relations Society, G8 Research Group, Journalists for Human Rights chapter and North Korea Research Group. Her academic interests include the Responsibility To Protect doctrine, the Rwandan Genocide, Canadian foreign policy and North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. For her contributions to the U of T community, Tina received the Robert H. Catherwood Scholarship and the Gordon Cressy Leadership Award. Tina was also awarded the Ambassador Kenneth Taylor Prize and the William Kilbourn Prize for her academic achievements. In the past, Tina has volunteered as a legal and medical interpreter for North Korean refugees in Toronto and as a photographer for Dignitas International. She speaks Korean, French and Spanish. In the fall of 2009, Tina will be starting her Ph.D. programme at the U of T’s History Department. She plans to study Korean-Canadian relations from the 1880s to 1980s.
Michael Szala Newmark
Michael Szala Newmark is a second year PhD. student with research interests in Polish and German history, as well as a member of the joint program through the Centre for Jewish Studies. Starting this year, he is also the Don of Modern History at Trinity College. Before becoming a doctoral student at Toronto, he received a B.A. with honors in European History from the University of Rochester, as well as a Take 5 Scholar at the in German Studies (2005-2006). In addition, he was a Fulbright Research Fellow at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland (2006-2007), where he studied the relationships between the Polish szlachta (nobility), intelligentsia, and Jews in the Republic of Krakow; this is now his dissertation topic. In addition to being a TA for HIS 251Y (History of East Central Europe), he is on the organizing committee for the 6th Annual Graduate History Symposium, hosted by the graduate students of the Department of History, and is active in many aspects of graduate-undergraduate life.
Nicholas Araki Howell
Nicholas Howell is a third year undergraduate student at Trinity College currently studying philosophy, political science, and psychology. His academic interests lie in cognitive science, political psychology, political philosophy, and the interaction between these topics in government. Nicholas is also sits on the executives of the Association of Political Science Students, the Philosophy Course Union, and the Trinity College Competitive Debate Society. He has previously worked as a researcher and analyst for the Departments of Canadian Heritage and Environment Canada, respectively.
Chris DiMatteo
Christopher DiMatteo is in his third year of undergraduate studies at Trinity College, University of Toronto, completing a joint specialist in Philosophy and Political Science and a minor in German. His academic interests include the history of political philosophy, primarily ancient political thought. He is also very involved in student government, serving on the Executive of the Trinity College Meeting as Secretary. In his free time, he enjoys playing the piano.
