St茅phanie Chouinard

St茅phanie Chouinard

Associate Professor

Political Studies

成人大片 University and Royal Military College (RMC)

St茅phanie Chouinard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at Royal Military College (Kingston). She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Ottawa, for which she was awarded a Vanier Scholarship and a fellowship from the Baxter & Alma Ricard foundation. She was selected as a 2021 Scholar for the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.

St茅phanie's research interests focus on the relationship between courts and minorities in democratic systems, and particularly the Supreme Court of Canada's impact on the evolution of official-language rights and Aboriginal self-determination rights. She is also interested in territorial and non-territorial autonomy arrangements for linguistic minorities in the world. She has published in Ethnopolitics, the Language Rights Review, Language Minorities and Society, and the International Journal of Canadian Studies, among others.

Selected publications: 

Chouinard, St茅phanie and Emmanuelle Richez, 2022, 芦 The Tension between Freedom of Expression and Language Rights in Canada : The Ford and Devine Legacy after Thirty Years鈥, in Emmett Macfarlane (ed.), Dilemmas of Free Expression, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 203-221.

Chouinard, St茅phanie, 2021, 鈥淭he Principle of Minority Protection and Language Rights in Canada: The Secession Reference鈥檚 Legacy鈥, Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law, vol. 15, 181-209.

Chouinard, St茅phanie and Kelly Gordon, 2021, 芦 De l鈥檋ostilit茅 ouverte au 鈥榞ros bon sens鈥 : populisme de droite et antibilinguisme au Nouveau-Brunswick, 1980-2020 禄, in Fr茅d茅ric Boily (ed), Les droites provinciales en 茅volution, 2015-2020 : Conservatisme, populisme et radicalisme, Qu茅bec : Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 Laval, 67-82.

Chouinard, St茅phanie, and Martin Normand, 2020, 鈥淭alk COVID to Me: Language Rights and the Government Responses to the Pandemic鈥, Canadian Journal of Political Science (special COVID-19 edition).

Chouinard, St茅phanie, 2020, 芦 L鈥櫭﹖ude des petites nations par la lunette juridique: un exercice p茅rilleux 禄, in Joseph Yvon Th茅riault and Jean-Fran莽ois Laniel (eds.), Petites nations. Culture, politique et universalit茅, Paris : Classiques Garnier, 163-176.

Chouinard, St茅phanie, 2020, 鈥淩econciling Diversities: Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in the Canadian Armed Forces鈥, in Rupinder Mangat, Bessma Momani and Allistair Edgar (eds.), Strengthening the Canadian Forces Through Diversity, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 101-113.

Chouinard, St茅phanie, 2017, "Section 23 of the Charter and official-language minority instruction in Canada: The judiciary鈥檚 impact and limits in education policymaking", in : Emmett Macfarlane (ed.), The Policy Impact of the Supreme Court of Canada (forthcoming).

Chouinard, St茅phanie, 2017, "Les tribunaux, lieu de pouvoir contre-majoritaire? Les minorit茅s face au droit", in : Karim Benyekhlef, Catherine R茅gis, and Daniel Weinstock (eds.), Sauvons la justice, Montr茅al : Del Busso (forthcoming).

Chouinard, St茅phanie, 2016, 鈥淪tateless Nations in a World of Nation States鈥, in: Karl Cordell and Stefan Wolff (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict, 2nd ed., London: Routledge, pp. 54-66.

Chouinard, St茅phanie, 2016, 鈥淨uand le droit parle de sciences sociales: l鈥檌ntroduction de la compl茅tude institutionnelle dans le droit linguistique canadien鈥, Language Rights Review, vol. 3, pp. 60-93.

Chouinard, St茅phanie, 2014, 鈥淭he Rise of Non-Territorial Autonomy in Canada: Towards a Doctrine of Institutional Completeness in the Domain of Minority Language Rights鈥, Ethnopolitics, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 141-158.