Dr Donal Sean Gill

Dónal Gill Biography

Dónal Gill is part time faculty teaching Canadian Politics at Concordia University.

Dónal has a PhD in Political Science from Concordia University (2020) and a BA in History and Politics (2008) and MA in Politics from University College Cork (20210). He was awarded the Diarmuid Whelan memorial award for best dissertation for his Master's thesis on Quebec Politics.

He has a full-time tenured position teaching political science at Dawson College, where he also serves as Social Science Representative on Academic Senate. He also previously sat on the Executive Council of the Dawson Teacher's Union and was coordinator of the Law, Society & Justice profile. In 2022 he won the Director General's prize for teaching excellence.

He is a regular contributor in the media on matters related to Canadian/Quebec politics.

He has published political commentary in Maclean's, the Montreal Gazette, Canadian Dimension and the Dial. 

This article on  the great Irish-Canadian father of Confederation, Thomas, D'Arcy McGee in Maclean's magazine is a source of pride:

https://macleans.ca/politics/the-architect-of-canadas-anti-americanism/

Articles in Canadian Dimension: 

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/author/donal-gill

Dónal is on the board of the Siamsa Montreal School of Irish Music. He is a member of the Saint Patrick's Society of Montreal.

Teaching/research interests: party politics in Canada and Ireland, political ideology, Canada-US relations, the political thought of Jonathan Swift.

Poli204 - Introduction to Canadian Politics
Poli356 - Political Parties in Canada
Poli314 - The Political Thought of Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Poli488 - Nationalism & Elections in Quebec, Ireland, and Canada
Poli392 - Research Design