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Research Interests

International institutions; international security; global governance; security regionalism; multilateral diplomacy; the role of discourse and practice in world politics; Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific.

Supervisory Interests

Stéphanie Martel would be interested in supervising graduate students in the areas of International Relations Theory; constructivist/interpretativist/critical approaches to IR; multilateral diplomacy; regional governance; international/regional institutions; international security; IR in the Global South; security communities; the role of discourse and practice in world politics; discourse analysis; Southeast Asia; and Asia-Pacific IR.

Biography

Stéphanie Martel is an Associate Professor and Hardy Chair in the Department of Political Studies, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada. Her research is on multilateral diplomacy and regional security governance, with a focus on Southeast Asia and the Asia/Indo-Pacific. Dr. Martel’s work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as International Studies Quarterly, International Affairs, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Perspectives, PS: Political Science & Politics, and The Pacific Review, among others. She is the author of Enacting the Security Community: ASEAN’s Never-Ending Story (2022, Stanford University Press). Dr. Martel regularly represents Canada in various expert diplomacy mechanisms and policy dialogues on issues of Indo-Pacific security, including the ASEAN Regional Forum's Eminent and Expert Persons Group and the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. She is a member of the Research Network on Women, Peace and Security.

Research Interests

Canadian and comparative politics; elections and voting behaviour; gender and political behaviour; women candidates and legislators; media and politics; representation

Supervisory Interests

Dr. Goodyear-Grant is interested in supervising students and postdoctoral scholars working on Canadian and comparative projects focused on gender and representation; gender and political communications; women candidates and legislators, particularly as it relates to their access to electoral office and/or substantive representation of women/gender; and various other related topics in Canadian and comparative politics. Please see Dr. Goodyear-Grant’s CV for a list of past students and their graduate projects for examples of past supervisions.

Biography

Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant (Ph.D. McGill) is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies at ���ϳԹ���Դ, and the Director of the Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA). Her research focuses on Canadian politics, with particular interests in electoral politics, voting behaviour, and public opinion; news media; the political representation of women; and the conceptualization and measurement of sex and gender. She is the author of (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013), which won the 2016 Pierre Savard Award from the International Council of Canadian Studies, and was one of three books shortlisted for the Canadian Political Science Association’s 2014 Donald Smiley Prize.

In , Goodyear-Grant presents compelling evidence that gender structures certain aspects of news coverage of candidates and politicians – not how much they’re covered, but certainly how they’re covered – and demonstrates that these differences can impact negatively on female candidates and leaders’ electoral prospects and political careers, contributing to the persistent under-representation of women at all levels of politics. Goodyear-Grant has also published work on measuring sex and gender in political research, attitudes toward democracy and political representation, attitudes toward the use of referenda, and so on, all part of a larger research agenda that concentrates on representation and political behaviour published in venues such as Political Behavior, Politics & Gender, Electoral Studies, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, and the Canadian Journal of Political Science.

In the Department of Political Studies at ���ϳԹ���Դ, Goodyear-Grant teaches courses on campaigns and elections; women, gender, and politics; and Canadian politics more generally.

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Research Interests

Gender and Sexuality Politics; LGBTQ+ Politics; Parties, Elections, and Representation; Political Behaviour; Canadian Federal and Provincial Politics; Political Science as a Discipline; Quantitative and Mixed-Method Research

Supervisory Interests

Quinn Albaugh is happy to supervise a broad range of projects related to their research interests. They are particularly interested in prospective undergraduate and graduate students interested in working on LGBTQ+ politics, including LGBTQ+ representation in politics, LGBTQ+ voting behaviour, and public opinion on LGBTQ+ rights. They have a strong interest in mentoring 2SLGBTQIA+ scholars, particularly trans and nonbinary scholars, along with scholars from other marginalized groups.
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Biography

Quinn Albaugh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies. Their work focuses on gender and sexuality in electoral and party politics in Canada. They have won the John McMenemy Prize for the best article published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science (2023) and the Kim Nossal Award for Undergraduate Teaching (2024-2025). Their work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and Politics and Gender, among other journals. They are an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Politics and Gender (2026-2029).

Biography

Dr. Elizabeth Baisley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University and a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity. Their research and teaching focus on LGBTQ2S+ politics, gender and politics, and Canadian politics, often in dialogue with American and comparative work.

Baisley's current research examines LGBTQ2S+ rights, political representation, and political behaviour in Canada. Their work investigates why support for LGBTQ2S+ rights is declining in Canada, among whom, and how it might be strengthened. Another strand of research examines the barriers and opportunities facing LGBTQ2S+ people seeking elected office. A third strand explores how LGBTQ2S+ voters respond to LGBTQ2S+ candidates and representation. Beyond LGBTQ2S+ politics, Baisley is also conducting research on gender and diversity within the discipline of political science, especially the development of gender and politics as a subfield.

Baisley is methodologically pluralist, drawing on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative materials, including public opinion surveys, experiments, legislative data, interviews, archival research, participant observation, and original dataset creation.

Their work has been published in outlets including The Journal of Politics; Politics & Gender; Electoral Studies; Politics, Groups, and Identities; the Canadian Journal of Political Science; and Human Rights Quarterly.

Before joining Queen's University, Baisley earned a PhD in Politics and a Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies from Princeton University. They subsequently held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Toronto. 

Supervisory Interests

For additional information about current research projects and supervision opportunities, please visit Baisley's personal website: .

Research Interests

Gender and security; African politics and security; International Relations; non-state armed groups; political violence; decoloniality

Biography

Yolande Bouka (Ph.D. American University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at ���ϳԹ���Դ. Her research and teaching focus on gender, African politics and security, political violence, and field research ethics in conflict-affected societies. She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from American University. Her current research is a multi-sited historical and political analysis of female combatants in Southern Africa. Her previous research which is now a book manuscript “In the Shadow of Prison: Power, Identity, and Transitional Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda” focused on the social and political impacts of the power-laden nature of the Rwandan transitional justice program. Her research has received support from the Fulbright Scholar Program and the American Association of University Women. Prior to joining ���ϳԹ���Դ, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Denver.

In addition to her academic work, she has extensive experience with development and security research agencies. She has worked with and offered support to USAID, the UK Department for International Development, the United Nations, the African Union, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the United States Institute of Peace. Between 2014 and 2016 she was a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in the Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis Division in Nairobi, Kenya, where she led research on peace and security in Africa’s Great Lakes Region. She currently serves on the Research Advisory Council of the RESOLVE Network, a global consortium of researchers, research organizations, policymakers, and practitioners committed to empirically driven, locally-defined research on the drivers of violent extremism and sources of community resilience.

Research Interests

International Relations (IR theory, IPE, critical theory, philosophy of social science, evolution of the field, neogramsican IR); Middle Eastern Politics (the Kurdish question, neoimperialism and post-colonialism, Canada and the Middle East, Turkey and Afghanistan).

Biography

Born and raised near Ottawa, Professor Wayne Cox has undergraduate degrees in Political Science and History from Carleton University, an MA in Political Science from Carleton University, and a PhD in Political Studies from ���ϳԹ���Դ. He was an Assistant Professor in Politics and Economics at Royal Military College of Canada in the late 1990's before joining Political Studies at ���ϳԹ���Դ in 2001. His PhD research was on the Kurdish question in Turkey. His most recent book is the 2010 UBC Press co-edited volume Locating Global Order: American Power and Canadian Security after 9/11, (with Bruno Charbonneau). He also has an interest in post-positivist and critical international relations theory -- for example, the co-edited (with Claire Turenne Sjolander) Beyond Positivism: Critical Reflections on International Relations (Lynne Rienner, 1994). He has also published on identity and globalization in the International Political Economy Yearbook series (Lynne Rienner, 1998), the Kurdish question, hegemony and world order, conflict in the Middle East, Canada/US defence relations, Canadian defence policy, and IR scholarship. When not researching or teaching, he has passions for kayaking, writing and recording music, and playing the guitar.

Research Interests

Indigenous politics; indigenous rights; sovereignty movements; federal Indian law; Russian politics; legal theory; comparative political theory; comparative politics

Biography

Dani Delaney's research centers on the legal discourse of indigeneity and the politics of recognition through a comparative analysis of the legal strategies of American Indians/Alaska Natives and the indigenous peoples of northern Russia (коренные малочисленные народы Сибири). Their fieldwork focuses on indigenous political protection and legal challenges to oil development on indigenous lands. They teach indigenous politics, constitutional law, and political theory. They are also the advisor for the Undergraduate Moot Court Team.

Before returning to graduate school They were the legislative director for the National Council of Urban Indian Health and legal counsel to the Tribal Technical Advisory Group to the Centers of Medicaid and Medicare (TTAG: CMS). They received their JD from Georgetown University Law Center with a focus on legislative advocacy and were Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow.

Recent publications include “Under Coyote’s Mask: Environmental Law, Indigenous Identity, and #NoDAPL” in the Spring 2019 volume of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law.

Colin is a political theorist and philosopher.

Research Interests

The foundational aspiration of Colin’s research is the advancement of the Enlightenment Project into the 21st century. The themes of reason, science, progress, and optimism inform his curiosity-driven research interests and interdisciplinary focus.

Main research interests are: Ethics and political theory/philosophy, including distributive justice; ideal/non-ideal theory; history of political thought, deliberative democracy; all things virtue-related: virtue ethics, virtue epistemology, and virtue jurisprudence; Analytical Marxism; play; science and justice - especially the biomedical sciences (e.g. genetics, evolutionary biology, “geroscience” and the ethics of human enhancement).

Colin Farrelly is interested in supervising students interested in research projects at the intersection of political theory and advances in the biomedical sciences and/or public health ethics and policy.

Biography

Colin received his Ph.D. from the University of Bristol in England in 1999. Over his 20-year academic career, he has held academic appointments in 10 different departments in Political Science, Philosophy, and Public Policy in England, Scotland, the United States, and Canada. Previous appointments include Visiting Professor in UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at the University of Manoa in Hawaii, Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, Visitor in Oxford’s Program on Ethics and the New Biosciences, as well as permanent academic appointments at Waterloo University, Manchester University and the University of Birmingham. For the past 5 years, Colin has been involved in teaching philosophy to male inmates.

The author and editor of 6 books and approximately 50 journal articles, Colin’s publications include articles in journals in political science, philosophy, feminism, law, science, and medicine. He has published on a diverse array of topics, including the health challenges posed by population aging, the creation and evolution of patriarchy, virtue ethics, virtue epistemology, virtue jurisprudence, play and politics, freedom of expression, judicial review, non-ideal theory, gene patents, deliberative democracy, nanotechnology, sex selection, toleration, a citizen’s basic income, enhancing soldiers and economic incentives.

Colin is currently working on the following three major research projects:

1. a new textbook titled Classics in Political Philosophy for Today(under contract with Hackett Publishing) which covers a range of political thinkers from Plato through to MLK, Jr. The book encourages students to engage with, and critically reflect upon, the contemporary significance of the history of Western political thought.
2. research for a new manuscript on the social significance of “geroscience”- the science of healthy aging. This multi-year project examines the limitations of public health’s “War Against Disease”- covering not only the war against infectious diseases (such as COVID-19), but also the wars against cancer and obesity. It also canvasses the progression of a century of experimental scientific research on modulating aging, from dietary restriction and genetic manipulation in laboratory organisms, to pharmacological interventions in humans.
3. developing an account of a “realistic utopia” that focuses on the developmental potential of play- physical, social, and imaginative play. This project relies on insights from evolutionary biology and positive psychology, as well as philosophy and the history of political thought.

Research Interests

American institutions and separation of powers; public law; judicial politics; legal mobilization; constitutional law (including civil rights and liberties); race and law; and legal institutions

Supervisory Interests

I would be interested in supervising graduate students in the area of law and courts, especially judicial behavior and legal mobilization in the U.S. and Canadian contexts. I may also supervise students working on American institutions, broadly construed.

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Studies at ���ϳԹ���Դ in Kingston, Ontario. I was formerly a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace at the Queen's University Faculty of Law and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Politics at Princeton University.

My research and teaching interests are broadly in American law and politics. My work sits at the intersection of a number of sub-disciplines of political science, including American institutions, judicial politics, American political development, law and society, and political behavior. My primary research agenda aims to understand the effectiveness of “private enforcement statutes,” federal laws in which the primary mechanism of enforcement is private litigation, rather than direct bureaucratic action. I argue that a number of actors—presidents, bureaucratic agencies, judges, and interest groups—all have a hand in determining whether individuals will make use of private rights of action by filing lawsuits.

In other research, I examine how the public and governmental actors respond to Supreme Court decisions, as well as public preferences about judicial institutions and legal outcomes.