Michael Hawes is a professor of political science, a tireless advocate for international education, and a proud alumnus of the Fulbright program. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States and Executive Director of Fulbright Canada.
Dr. Hawes joined the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University in 1985 and has since held numerous visiting academic appointments. He was the Fulbright Distinguished Professor of International and Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 2000 and Visiting Research Chair and Professor at the Center for Public Diplomacy in the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California in 2010. He has also served as Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Visiting Professor of International Political Economy at Tsukuba University in Japan, and Visiting Professor of International Political Economy at the International University of Japan.
Michael holds a Ph.D. in political science from York University, an M.A. in international affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, and a B.A.H. in economics and history from the University of Toronto. He has published widely on foreign policy, political culture, international economic relations, and related subjects.
His most recent books include Canada’s Public Diplomacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) with Nicholas Cull, 1968 in Canada: A Year and its Legacies (University of Ottawa Press, 2021) with Christopher Kirkey and Andrew Holman, and Canadian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World (Oxford University Press, 2018) with Christopher Kirkey. In addition, he has served as guest editor for several refereed journals.
Professor Hawes has been awarded honorary doctorates from the State University of New York and Vancouver Island University. In July 2021, he was appointed Senior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto.