Chris Greenaway is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, an MA from McGill University, and a BA (High Distinction) from the University of Toronto Scarborough.

His research centers on public law and the politics of disability in Canada, with a particular focus on how legal and democratic institutions structure inclusion, accountability, and legitimacy. Using a discourse-centered approach, he examines how democratic values are articulated, constrained, and contested in adversarial institutional settings, including legislatures, courts, and universities.

This work situates political language as a central site through which law, representation, and power are produced.

Within this broader agenda, Chris is the developer of the Parliamentary Discourse Quality Index (PDQI), a framework for evaluating debate quality in Westminster legislatures. His research spans public law, parliamentary discourse, political pedagogy, and disability politics, and combines normative democratic theory, text analysis, and institutional analysis.

Chris is a former Fellow of the Canadian Study of Parliament Group and has held multiple research affiliations, including with the Horizons Policy Lab and the Linked Parliamentary Data Project. His work is forthcoming or under review in PS: Political Science & Politics, Canadian Parliamentary Review, and other scholarly outlets.

An award-winning instructor, Chris has received multiple teaching and fellowship awards, including the Manon Tremblay Fellowship and the University of Toronto Department of Political Science Outstanding Teaching Award. His courses and pedagogical initiatives have been featured on TVO’s The Agenda, and he regularly contributes to public-facing academic and civic programming on Canadian democracy.