Contact information
Email: gboychuk@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 302
Areas of specialization
- Canadian politics
- American politics
- Canadian-American political development
Degrees
- BA - University of Alberta
- MA - University of Alberta
- PhD - Queen’s University
- Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctorate - University of Alberta
Gerry has served as the Chair of the Department of Political Science from 2012-2017. Previously, from 2008 to 2011, Gerry served as the Director of Global Governance Teaching Programs (MA and PhD) and, in 2011, served as Director of the Masters of Public Service program.
Gerry has acted as a consultant to Human Resources Development Canada and Industry Canada on public policy and was a contributing researcher to the joint Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC)/Industry Canada project on North American Linkages. He also authored, The Changing Political and Economic Environment of Health Care in Canada, the first of forty research papers commissioned for the Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada.
Selected publications
- “Not a Tinker’s Damn: The Politics of Suffrage in the South Dakota Election of 1918.” South Dakota History 50, 3 (Fall 2020): 229-254.
- National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, Territory and the Roots of Difference. (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2008) Volume in the American Governance and Public Policy Series (Georgetown University Press).
- Patchworks of Purpose: The Development of Provincial Social Assistance Regimes in Canada. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998). Volume in the Canadian Public Administration Series sponsored by the Institute of Public Administration of Canada.
Current projects
- Not a Tinker’s Damn: Female Suffrage in the Northern Great Plains States and Provinces, 1910-18. Monograph project supported by SSHRC Insight Grant.
Courses taught
- PSCI 264 - American Politics
- PSCI 260 - Canadian Politics
- PSCI 360 - Issues in Canadian Politics
- PSCI 367 - Issues in American Politics
- PSCI 661 - Canadian Political Institutions