Will Kymlicka

Program :

Successful Societies

Appointment :

Fellow

Institution :

Queen's University

Country :

Canada

Will Kymlicka holds the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University.  He is also a Recurrent Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program of the Central European University in Budapest.  Dr. Kymlicka received his B.A. in Philosophy and Politics from Queen's University in 1984, and his D.Phil. in Philosophy from Oxford University in 1987.  Prior to his current position, he was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto (1989-90), a Senior Policy Analyst for the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies (1990-91), Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa (1991-98), Visiting Professor at Carleton University (1994-98), and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University (1998-2003).  Dr. Kymlicka has also held shorter visiting positions at the European University Institute in Florence, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Union College in Schenectady, NY, Sciences-Po in Paris, and the Bellagio Conference and Study Center of the Rockefeller Foundation.  

Dr. Kymlicka completed a three-year term as President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (2004-6).  He became a Fellow in CIFAR's Successful Societies Program in 2004, and in 2005 was named a Trudeau Foundation Fellow.  In 2009, he was awarded the Premier's Discovery Award for the Social Sciences.

Dr. Kymlicka is a political theorist who is deeply engaged with real-world problems.  He is centrally concerned with questions about how societies apportion rights and responsibilities so as to cope with the issues generated by ethnic and linguistic diversity.  

He is the author of six books published by Oxford University Press (OUP):  Liberalism, Community, and Culture (1989); Contemporary Political Philosophy (1990; second edition 2002); Multicultural Citizenship (1995), which was awarded the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Assocation, and the Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association; Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998); Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship (2001); and Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007).  

Dr. Kymlicka is also the editor of Justice in Political Philosophy (Elgar, 1992), and The Rights of Minority Cultures (OUP, 1995); co-editor with Ian Shapiro of Ethnicity and Group Rights (NYU, 1997); co-editor with Wayne Norman of Citizenship in Diverse Societies (OUP, 2000); co-editor with Simone Chambers of Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society (PUP, 2001); co-editor with Magda Opalski of Can Liberal Pluralism Be Exported? (OUP, 2001); co-editor with Alan Patten of Language Rights and Political Theory (OUP, 2003); co-editor with Bruce Berman and Dickson Eyoh of Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa (Ohio University Press, 2004); co-editor with Baogang He of Multiculturalism in Asia (OUP, 2005); and co-editor with Keith Banting of Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies (OUP, 2006); The Globalization of Ethics: Religious and Secular Perspectives, co-edited with William M. Sullivan (Cambridge University Press, 2007); and The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies, co-edited with Bashir Bashir (OUP, 2008).

His works have been translated into 30 languages.