Thesis

Reflections and Reinforcements of Public Apathy: Newspaper Coverage and Framing of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Brief Biography

PhD, Political Studies (Queen's)

MA, Political Science (Western)

BAH, Political Studies and Drama (Queen's)

Elisha is of Irish and Cherokee descent which deeply informs her program of study. Elisha studies Canadian Politics and Gender and Politics with a focus on the (mis)representation of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people (MMIWG2S) in the media. Her doctoral research focuses on how traditional print media frames and how Indigenous communities frame MMIWG2S affect non-Indigenous Canadians' perceptions of and support for MMIWG2S. She hopes that her research will tell us more about how colonialism and racism perpetuate and silence the violence against Indigenous women and girls through media representation (or lack thereof). She also hopes that her research can be a modest step to decolonizing one of Canada’s oldest institutions: the media.

Elisha is also a passionate teacher, a dedicated researcher, and an advocate for gender equity in her academic and personal life. She was an active member of the Queen’s and Kingston communities at large. She was an executive member of the Queen’s Female Leadership in Politics Conference since its inaugural year in 2015. She was the 2019 Co-Chair of the Political Studies Graduate Student Association (PSGSA) and in 2018 was the Co-Chair of the 2018 PSGSA annual graduate conference. She is also on the board of directors for the Autism Mentorship Program, a not-for-profit organization.

Teaching

POLS 212- Canadian Politics (Head Teaching Assistant) 

POLS 313- Political Communication (Teaching Assistant)

POLS 384- Research Methods (Teaching Assistant) 

POLS 385 – Introduction to Statistics (Teaching Assistant and Content Developer)

POLS 320 – First Nations Politics (Teaching Assistant)

POLS 367 – American Foreign Policy (Teaching Assistant)

POLS 391 – Electoral Systems (Course Co-Developer)

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, Université de Montréal, 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

“The judiciary’s impact and limits in official-language minority education policymaking: The legacy of Section 23”, 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 minorités face au droit ", in: Karim Benyekhlef, Catherine Régis, and Daniel Weinstock (eds.), Sauvons la justice, Montréal: Del Busso, 2017.

“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.), Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict, 2nd ed., London: Routledge, 2016, 54-66.

Research Focus

Terrorism and political violence; Sociology of religion; religion and violence; social movements; religion and politics in the Middle East; Religion and the public sphere; diaspora politics and activism; religion and media/social media; atheism and non-religion; hate movements and the far-right.

Brief Biography

Amarnath Amarasingam is an Assistant Professor in the School of Religion, and is cross-appointed to the Department of Political Studies, at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. He is also a Senior Fellow with the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation. His research interests are in terrorism, radicalization and extremism, online communities, diaspora politics, post-war reconstruction, and the sociology of religion. He is the author of Pain, Pride, and Politics: Sri Lankan Tamil Activism in Canada (2015), and the co-editor of Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War (2016). He has also published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, has presented papers at over 100 national and international conferences, and has written for The New York Times, The Monkey Case, The Washington Post, CNN, Politico, The Atlantic, and Foreign Affairs. He has been interviewed on CNN, PBS Newshour, CBC, BBC, and a variety of other media outlets. He tweets at @AmarAmarasingam

Amarasingam is an experienced field researcher, having conducted hundreds of interviews for his PhD dissertation on social movement activism, organizational dynamics, and youth identity in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora. He also conducted over 50 interviews with former fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, or Tamil Tigers) throughout the former war zones of Sri Lanka in 2013 and 2014. He has also conducted field research in Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Somalia, Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine. He co-directed a study on foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq, based at the University of Waterloo, for six years during which he conducted numerous social media and in-person interviews with current and former foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq, as well as parents and close friends of those who traveled to fight. 

Research Interests

• Global Politics
• Global Development Studies
• Conflict and Cooperation in Natural Resources Sectors
• Politics of Labour 
• Migration Politics

Brief Biography

Dr. Surulola Eke is an Adjunct Professor and Peacock Fellow in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, where he teaches African Politics, Comparative Politics, Political Economy, and Global Governance. Based on his regular fieldwork across Africa – including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and South Africa – he has independently and collaboratively authored 25 refereed papers on the dynamics of conflict and cooperation impacting agrarian political economies, which have been published in scholarly journals such as World Development, Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Journal of Global Security Studies, Third World Quarterly, Review of African Political Economy, etc. He has also chaired scholarly panels on development, conflict, and cooperation in agrarian political economies at international conferences organised by the International Studies Association and the British International Studies Association, etc. Dr. Eke was a recipient of Canada’s most prestigious postdoctoral fellowship, the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2020, Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Grant in 2022, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Insight Development Grant awards in 2023 and 2025 – as well as mentorship and teaching awards in 2023 and 2024, respectively.

Teaching

POLS 441 Gender and International Relations (Winter 2026)

POLS 395 Topics in International Political Economy (Fall 2025)

POLS 499 Politics of Free Expression in Canada and the World (Summer 2025)

Research Interests

Politics of majority–minority group relations; politics of artificial intelligence; nationalism, especially civic nationalism; migrant integration; multiculturalism; conflict regulation, especially consociational power-sharing; relational social science; academic integrity

Stephen Larin would be interested in supervising graduate students in the areas of nationalism, migration, or the politics of artificial intelligence.

Brief Biography

Stephen Larin is an Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Coordinator of the Internship in Political Studies, and the Associate Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity. Previously, he has been a Senior Researcher with the Institute for Minority Rights at Eurac Research in South Tyrol, Italy; an Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia; and a Visiting Researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Research

Dr. Larin's research is divided into two broad areas: the politics of majority–minority group relations and the politics of artificial intelligence.

The main focus of his research in the first area is the relationship between majority-group nationalism and minorities such as migrants and sub-state nations, and he is engaged in two ongoing projects. The first project focuses on the relationship between majority-group nationalism and migrant integration, especially the role of civic nationalism in so-called ‘civic integration’ policies (see, for example, “Is it really about values? Civic nationalism and migrant integration”). The second project deals with Italy’s predominantly German-speaking province of South Tyrol, and is currently focused on the possibility of revising the province's Autonomy Statute to include ‘Others’—those who do not want to declare membership in one of the three official linguistic groups, such as people from mixed-language families, migrants, and declaration objectors—in its executive proportionality rule. This change would shift South Tyrol from ‘corporate’ toward ‘liberal’ consociation, and could serve as a model for similar transitions in other cases (for the first statement of this proposal, see “Time to invite the ‘Others’ to the table: a proposal to make South Tyrol more inclusive”).

Dr. Larin’s research on the politics of artificial intelligence focuses on how AI affects the distribution of power, problems with using AI in public decision-making such as the violation of due process, how AI affects migrants and other minorities, and the relationship between AI and academic integrity. He has been teaching a fourth-year seminar on the politics of artificial intelligence since 2020.

Teaching

Dr. Larin teaches courses in comparative politics and political theory that also draw on international relations, sociology, and law. He was nominated for the Arts & Science Undergraduate Society’s W.J. Barnes Teaching Award in both 2019 and 2020, and the Alma Mater Society’s Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2020.

For detailed information about political studies courses and instructors, please refer to the Undergraduate and Graduate pages.  

Service (2024/2025)

• Colloquium Committee
• Departmental Committee
• Undergraduate Committee
• POLS University Research Ethics Board (UREB) Committee

Research Interests

The philosophy, politics, and policy of free expression; academic freedom; the politics of higher education; access to information; political theory and philosophy; law and legal studies; law and politics

Brief Biography

Dax D'Orazio is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University. His research is primarily focused on the philosophy, politics, and policy of free expression. His doctoral dissertation was an analysis of the alleged 'crisis' of free expression on Canadian university campuses. A multidimensional approach to the politics of free expression, his project included theoretical understandings of free expression and harm, the theory and practice of ‘de-platforming,’ the history of free expression on campus in a comparative context, and analysis of provincial higher education policy. As a qualitative researcher, his mixed-method approach typically includes literature reviews, case studies, semi-structured interviews, and freedom of information requests. His doctoral dissertation research was recently the subject of a National Post article written by Joseph Brean ("The 'feedback loop' that pits students against politicians in the campus free speech crisis").

His current research project examines the law and politics of extending constitutional protections for expression (i.e. the Charter) to university campuses, which responds to some developments in law and policy that occurred during the course of his doctoral research. Additional research projects include the history of stand-up comedy in battles over free expression and a book about the politics of free expression on campus (under contract with the University of Toronto Press). His research and writing can also be found in various non-academic and current affairs venues, including blogs, newspapers, and websites. He blogs at the Centre for Free Expression at Toronto Metropolitan University and is a member of its Working Group on Academic Freedom. Passionate about free expression, academic freedom, and the public's right to know, he is a tireless advocate for robust public discourse and public intellectualism. You can learn more about his research, teaching, and writing here: www.daxdorazio.com

Teaching 

POLS 422 Public Opinion (Fall 2023)

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. 

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.

Brief 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.

Teaching

For detailed information about political studies courses and instructors, please refer to the Undergraduate and Graduate pages. 

Service (2026)

On sabbatical.

Selected Publications

• Stéphanie Martel, "ASEAN-Canada Relations at Forty-Five: A Mixed Scorecard," Canadian Journal of Foreign Policy (2023).
• Stéphanie Martel, Enacting the Security Community: ASEAN’s Never-Ending Story (Stanford University Press, 2022). 
• Stéphanie Martel and Aarie Glas, “The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism,” European Journal of International Relations (2022). 
• Stéphanie Martel, Jennifer Mustapha, Sarah E. Sharma, “Women, Peace and Security governance in the Asia–Pacific: a multi-scalar field of discourse and practice,” International Affairs (2022). 
• Stéphanie Martel, “The Polysemy of Security Community-Building: Toward a ‘People-Centered’ Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?,” International Studies Quarterly (2020). 
• Stéphanie Martel, “From Ambiguity to Contestation: Discourse(s) of Non-Traditional Security in the ASEAN Community,” The Pacific Review (2017). 

To contact Dr. Goodyear-Grant regarding graduate matters, please email gradchair.pols@queensu.ca.  

Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant Curriculum Vitae

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.

Brief Biography

Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant (Ph.D. McGill) is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, 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 Gendered News: Media Coverage and Electoral Politics in Canada (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 Gendered News, 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 Queen’s, Goodyear-Grant teaches courses on campaigns and elections; women, gender, and politics; and Canadian politics more generally.

Teaching

For detailed information about political studies courses and instructors, please refer to the Undergraduate and Graduate pages. 

Service (2024/2025)

• Adjunct Appointments Committee
• Appointments Committee
• Departmental Committee
• Field Convenors Committee (Chair)
• Graduate Committee (Chair)