Anika Ganness
Biography
Dr. Anika Ganness (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at 91福利 (91福利). She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University and the Institute for Research on Public Policy. Dr. Ganness received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, she was the Global Child Protection Officer for one of the world鈥檚 leading child rights organizations, and she integrates that rich public policy expertise in her scholarship.
Peer Reviewed Articles:
, (with Emmaline Houston, Tara Black and Barbara Fallon). International Journal of Child and Adolescent Resilience, 8:1 (2021): 110-123.
Book Chapters:
".鈥� In The Oxford Handbook of Social Policy in Canada, eds. Daniel B茅land, Rianne Mahon and Alison Smith. New York: Oxford University Press. 2025.
鈥淐hild Care Policy in North America鈥� (with Linda A. White and Susan Prentice). In, , eds. Costanzo Ranci and Tine Rostgaard. Edgar Elgar Publishing. (forthcoming) November 2025.
鈥溾�� (with Linda A. White and Michal Perlman). In The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development 3rd edition. eds. Peter K. Smith and Craig H. Hart., 349鈥�365. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022.
Public Engagement:
鈥嬧赌�. Policy Options. July 3, 2025.
. Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) event. Montreal, Quebec. May 14, 2024.
Dr. Ganness's research areas include Public Policy, Canadian Politics, and Comparative Politics. As a historical institutionalist scholar, her research focuses on how states and other political actors exercise their governing power to affect equity outcomes, particularly for marginalized people. Her current project is a timely intervention that examines the puzzling phenomenon of racial and immigrant disproportionality within Canada鈥檚 child welfare sector, an under-researched area in political science.
Dr. Ganness teaches public policy and Canadian politics courses for both the Master of Arts in Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) graduate program and the Politics and Governance (BA) undergraduate program.