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Jill Vickers

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Dr. Jill McCalla Vickers is a notable Canadian political scientist and professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. A Chancellor's Professor of Political Science, Vickers is particularly notable for her work in gender in politics. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

She earned a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and has been a professor at Carleton since 1971.

The Canadian Political Science Association named an award in her honour.

A self described socialist, she ran for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1979 federal election, in the riding of Ottawa—Carleton, for the New Democratic Party. She finished in third, with 8,234 votes behind Jean-Luc Pépin of the Liberals who won, and Progressive Conservative incumbent Jean Pigott.

She (with Dr. Gerald Caplan) debated Objectivist philosophers Dr. John Ridpath and Dr. Leonard Peikoff, defending socialism against their advocacy of capitalism.

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