Dr. Stéphanie Chouinard is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Royal Military College (Kingston) since 2017. She does research in the fields of language rights, minority and Indigenous rights, and law and politics. She teaches in Canadian politics, comparative politics, and political geography.
She was the recipient of SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier (Masters) and Vanier (Doctoral) Scholarships, as well as a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship and a fellowship from the Baxter & Alma Ricard Foundation. She is a graduate of the University of Ottawa (Ph.D., M.A) and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Law, Université de Montréal, as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Edinburgh.
Publications
- "L’étude des petites nations par la lunette juridique: un exercice périlleux", in: Joseph Yvon Thériault and Jean-François Laniel (dirs.), Petites nations. Culture, politique et universalité, Montreal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal (forthcoming)
- “Section 23 of the Charter and official-language minority instruction in Canada : The judiciary’s impact and limits in education policymaking”, in: Emmett Macfarlane (ed.), The Policy Impact of the Supreme Court of Canada, Toronto: UTP (à paraitre)
- “Les tribunaux, lieu de pouvoir contre-majoritaire? Les minorités face au droit", in: Karim Benyekhlef, Catherine Régis, and Daniel Weinstock (dirs.), Sauvons la justice, Montreal : Del Busso, 2017, 60-64.
- "The false francophone-Indigenous conflict over SCC judges", Policy Options, December 18, 2017, online (with Maxime St-Hilaire, Alexis Wawanoloath, and Marc-Antoine Gervais)
- "Le faux débat entre Autochtones et francophones au sujet du la CSC", Options politiques, December 2018, 2017 : online (with Maxime St-Hilaire, Alexis Wawanoloath, and Marc-Antoine Gervais)
- "Les études électorales au Québec depuis 1970 ou l’analyse de l’exceptionnalisme québécois aux urnes", Canadian Journal of Political Science vol. 50, no 1, 2017, 369-376.
- “Quand le droit parle de sciences sociales: l’introduction de la complétude institutionnelle dans le droit linguistique canadien”, Language Rights Review vol. 3, 2016, 60-93.
- “Stateless Nations in a World of Nation States”, in: Karl Cordell and Stefan Wolff (eds.), 2016, Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict, 2nd ed., London: Routledge, 54-66.
- "L’élite en francophonie canadienne comme catégorie sociale persistante: la gouvernance communautaire en perspective", Francophonies d’Amérique, no. 37, 2015, 65-76.
- “The Rise of Non-Territorial Autonomy in Canada: Towards a Doctrine of Institutional Completeness in the Domain of Minority Language Rights”, Ethnopolitics, vol 13, no. 2, 2014, 141-158.