Spyridon Kotsovilis

Spyridon Kotsovilis obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science from McGill, where he was the Neporany doctoral fellow, and also trained in Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico. His research interests include International Relations (conflict processes, International Law), Comparative Politics (democratization, cyber politics), Teaching Pedagogies, as well as complexity and mixed research methods. He has taught at McGill and the University of Toronto (Scarborough and St. George), and is an associate graduate faculty member at the Munk School of Global Affairs. He is participating in the tri-campus Global Leadership program, was the inaugural instructor for its pilot class, and is teaching its introductory course. He has been awarded numerous teaching grants, including TDI, Global Classrooms, PEFAL, Flexible Learning Initiative and TDT, and has been the recipient of the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science 2018 Superior Teaching award, and of the University of Toronto 2024 Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award. He has also worked with Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders, where he is an elected member of the MSF Canada Association.