Professor
Department of History; School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia
heidi.tworek@ubc.ca
Heidi Tworek is a Canada Research Chair and Professor in the Department of History and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia, where she also directs the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Her work explores how new communications technologies affect democracy in the past and present.
Professor Tworek bridges academia and public policy to tackle challenges around democracy, digital platforms, and global communication. She is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and holds non-resident fellowships at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. She is also a fellow of Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Canada’s New College of Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.
- Madhani, Divija, Ghassan Hamzeh, Madalen Sides, Nicolas Côté, Chris Tenove, and Heidi Tworek. 2025. Municipal Matters: Building Capacity for Local Climate Conversations. Vancouver, BC: Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, University of British Columbia. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0448244.
- Tworek, Heidi. 2023. “Media/Digital Literacy in an Era of Disinformation.” Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare 5(3):252–256.
- Tenove, Chris, Heidi Tworek, Sabah Haque, Hanna Hett, and Oliver Zhang. 2023. Responding to Online Abuse: What We Heard from Health Communicators. Vancouver, BC: Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, University of British Columbia.
- Tenove, Chris, and Heidi Tworek. 2020. Trolled on the Campaign Trail: Online Incivility and Abuse in Canadian Politics. Vancouver, BC: Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, University of British Columbia.
- Tworek, Heidi. 2019. News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.