Dr. Jeffrey M. Ayres, Saint Michael's College professor of political science, earned the top Saint Michael’s scholarship award, the Scholarship & Artistic Achievement Award, for 2010, as selected by his faculty colleagues and presented at the Academic Convocation September 24 in the McCarthy Arts Center on the college campus.
A member of the Saint Michael’s faculty since 1998, Professor Ayres, who is chair of the political science department, was cited for the depth of his knowledge of Canadian politics, and of its connection to U.S. and Mexican politics. He was also recognized for participation in international conferences and workshops in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, for articles in scholarly journals and book chapters, and for editing and reviewing articles.
Professor Ayres has received funding from the Canadian government, and was named a Fulbright Research Chair.
This year, Professor Ayres chapter “Civil Society Mobilization and North American Integration: A Fifteen Year Struggle for Power and Representation,” appears in Power and Transactional Activism, which is part of the Rethinking Globalizations series from Routledge’s Taylor and Francis.
His co-edited book Contentious Politics in North America: National Protest and Transnational Collaboration under Continental Integration was published by Palgrave MacMillan last year. In the past three years he has collaborated with Saint Michael’s colleagues, publishing with Professor Michael Bosia on food sovereignty and with Professor Patricia Siplon on comparative dimensions of global health governance.
Professor Ayres’ scholarship “feeds into and enriches his teaching.” He was cited further for generating serious scholarshipand serving on the Faculty Welfare Committee, chairing one of the larger departments, contributing to the Global Studies program, and working on the new Environmental Studies Major.