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McCall MacBain Scholarships - Master’s and Professional Programs

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PhD Job Market Candidates

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Fields of Study
International Relations, Critical International Legal Theory, Post-Colonial / Decolonizing Theory

Areas of Interest
International Relations, International Law, Human Rights, Indigenous Human Rights, Settler-Colonial Studies

Dissertation / Job Market Paper
UNDRIP, State-Sovereignty, and Indigenous Collective Rights to Self-Determination

Advisors
catherine.lu [at] mcgill.ca (Catherine Lu)


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Fields of Study
Public opinion, comparative (advanced democracies, US, Europe, Canada), international relations (cybersecurity and political economy)

Areas of Interest
Privacy and surveillance, digital technology policy and regulation

Dissertation / Job Market Paper
Who is mass online surveillance for? Intergroup relations framing on policy preferences

Advisors
dietlind.stolle [at] mcgill.ca (Dietlind Stolle)


Fields of Study
Comparative politics; gender and politics; public policy; Latin American politics

Areas of Interest
Gender-based violence; sexual and reproductive rights; feminist movements-state relations

Dissertation / Job Market Paper
The Politics of Feminist Coalition-Building in Argentina: Abortion and Violence Against Women Policymaking (1990-2020)

Advisors
manuel.balan [at] mcgill.ca (Manuel Balán)


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Fields of Study
Forced migration, global governance, feminist and postcolonial thought

Areas of Interest
Refugee-led organizations, citizenship, gender equality, humanitarianism, international practice theory, international organizations, Turkey, Middle East

Dissertation / Job Market Paper
Against the Charge of Charity: Refugee-Led Organizations, Localizations and Decolonizing Humanitarianism

Advisors
megan.bradley [at] mcgill.ca (Megan Bradley)


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Fields of Study
International Relations

Areas of Interest
International Security, International Order, Historical IR, and East Asia

Dissertation / Job Market Paper
'The Rise and Fall of Status-Seekers: A View from Historical East Asia"

Advisors
t.paul [at] mcgill.ca (T.V. Paul);
Committee Members: mark.brawley [at] mcgill.ca (Mark R. Brawley), and erik.kuhonta [at] mcgill.ca (Erik Martinez Kuhonta)


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Fields of Study
Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics, Political Methodology

Areas of Interest
Political Behaviour, Political Communication and the Media, Public Opinion, Elections, Misinformation

Dissertation / Job Market Paper
Resilient? Perceptions, Spread, and Impacts of Misinformation in the New Political Information Environment

Advisors
eric.belanger3 [at] mcgill.ca (Éric Bélanger)


Sashenka Lleshaj

Fields of Study
Comparative Politics, Political Theory, Area Studies (Russia and Eastern Europe), Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences

Areas of Interest
Memory Politics, Politics of Affection, Post-Communist Transformations, Regimes and Modern Subjectivity, Politics of Heritage, Transitional Justice, Interpretative Methods, Language and Aesthetics as Political Categories

Dissertation / Job Market Paper
Utopias for Posterity: the political life of communist heritage

Advisors
juliet.johnson [at] mcgill.ca (Juliet Johnson), maria.popova [at] mcgill.ca (Maria Popova)
Committee Members: tania.islasweinstein [at] mcgill.ca (Tania Islas Weinstein)


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Fields of Study
History of Political Thought; Democratic Theory; Recognition Theory

Areas of Interest
Economic Inequality; Plebian/Anti-oligarchic Thought; Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau

Dissertation / Job Market Paper
Eden's Easterlings: The Political Problem of Pride

Advisors
arash.abizadeh [at] mcgill.ca (Arash Abizadeh);
Committee Members: yves.winter [at] mcgill.ca (Yves Winter), jacob.levy [at] mcgill.ca (Jacob Levy) and Alison McQueen (External)


Fields of Study
Comparative Politics (Regional Specialization in South Asia and Southeast Asia), International Relations (sub-field specialization in International Security and International Political Sociology)

Areas of Interest
Political Development, Political Parties, Religion and Politics, Protest Politics, Elections, Political Methodology, Organizational Behaviour, International Political Sociology

Dissertation / Job Market Paper
Divergent Mobilization: Explaining the Disjuncture Between Social Mobilization and Electoral Success of Islamist Political Parties in Pakistan (1947-2024)

Advisors
Erik Martinez Kuhonta


Fields of Study
International Relations

Areas of Interest
International Security, Information Warfare, Great Power Politics, Grand Strategy, China, Russia

Dissertation / Job Market Paper
"Revisionism by Other Means: Foreign Propaganda Strategies of Russia and China in the Information Age"

Advisors
T.V. Paul
Committee members: Mark R. Brawley and Juliet Johnson


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Fields of Study
Political Theory, Comparative Politics (with regional specialization in South Asia and Western Europe)

Areas of Interest
History of Political Thought, Emotions and Politics, Religion and Politics, Democracy and Equality, Agency and Power, Normatively Grounded Political Theory, Feminist Theory and Gender Politics

Dissertation / Job Market Paper
Hobbes on Individual Happiness (Felicity) and its Relationship to Politics

Advisors
arash.abizadeh [at] mcgill.ca (Arash Abizadeh), jacob.levy [at] mcgill.ca (Jacob Levy), and william.roberts3 [at] mcgill.ca (Will Roberts)


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Fields of Study
Political Theory

Areas of Interest
Contemporary Political Theory, Critical Theory, Emotion and Politics

Dissertation / Job Market Paper
What to Do with the People? Critically Mapping the Democratic Politics of Peoplehood

Advisors
yves.winter [at] mcgill.ca (Yves Winter)

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