St茅phanie Chouinard
Associate Professor | Cross-Appointed
She/Her
PhD Political Studies (Ottawa); MA Political Studies (Ottawa); BA Political Science (Moncton)
RMC & Political Studies
Associate Professor | Cross-Appointed
Research Interests
Canadian Politics; Courts and Politics; Canadian Federalism; Minority and Language Rights and Politics (Canada; UK); Aboriginal Rights
Current research: Official-Language Rights and Aboriginal Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada
Brief Biography
Professor Chouinard grew up in Labrador. She has been teaching at Royal Military College since 2017 and has been cross-appointed at Queen's in 2018. She received her PhD in Political Studies from the University of Ottawa (2016) and was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Law, Universit茅 de Montr茅al, as well as at the Chair of Celtic Languages, Literature, History and Antiquities, University of Edinburgh. She teaches in the fields of Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics, and Political Geography.
Her research interests focus on the relationship between courts and minorities in democratic systems. Her current research focuses on 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 national and linguistic minorities in the world.
Professor Chouinard has published in Ethnopolitics, the Language Rights Review, Linguistic Minorities and Society, and the International Journal of Canadian Studies, among others.
Selected Publications
鈥淭he judiciary鈥檚 impact and limits in official-language minority education policymaking: The legacy of Section 23鈥, in: Emmett Macfarlane (ed.), The Policy Impact of the Supreme Court of Canada, University of Toronto Press (forthcoming)
" 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, 2017.
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, 2016, 60-93.
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, 2016, 54-66.