Jason Stanley moved from Yale University to the University of Toronto in 2025.
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Robinson's PodcastSep 23, 2026
Jason Stanley is the Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair in American Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto, where he is also Professor of Philosophy. Before moving to Toronto in 2025, he was the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Jason’s work focuses on propaganda, authoritarianism, democracy, free speech, and political language. In this episode, Robinson and Jason discuss Jason’s account of how political propaganda has changed during the Trump era. …
Multiple independent sources confirm that Jason Stanley left Yale University, where he was a philosophy professor, and moved to the University of Toronto in 2025. The claim is a faithful paraphrase of the passage, which says he moved to Toronto in 2025 from the Jacob Urowsky Professorship at Yale.
What we found
Supports. NPR (April 1, 2025) reports that Stanley, a Yale philosophy professor since 2013, decided to leave Yale and the country for a job at the University of Toronto.[1]
Supports. PBS NewsHour (April 1, 2025) reports that Stanley announced he was leaving Yale and the US to teach at the University of Toronto.[2]
Supports. Wikipedia states he held a Yale professorship from 2013 to 2025 and accepted the University of Toronto appointment in 2025, and DW (April 4, 2025) reports his move to the Munk School at Toronto.[4][5]
Supports. Mother Jones (November 5, 2025) and CBC (March 27, 2025) confirm he left Yale and now holds a position at the University of Toronto's Munk School.[3][6]
Context. The sources date the Toronto move to 2025, with the job announced in late March 2025, so the claim's timing is accurate.[4][6]
Sources
6 sources: 3 tier 2, 3 not rated
- 1Why this Yale professor is fleeing Americanpr.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 2Professor explains why he's leaving Yale for Toronto as ...pbs.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 3I Study Fascism. I've Already Fled America.motherjones.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 4Jason Stanley - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 5'A scary place': Jason Stanley on leaving Trump's Americadw.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6News • Canada • Torontocbc.ca · not rated · cited for: supports, context
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