Kaitie Jourdeuil
Doctoral Candidate
She/Her
Political Studies
Doctoral Candidate
Brief Biography
Kaitie Jourdeuil is a SSHRC doctoral scholar in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s specialising in Political Theory and Canadian Politics. Her research interests are shaped by two questions: (1) What does it mean to live well in community with one another? and (2) What shared values should guide relationships within our political community and with other communities? Her doctoral project focuses on what Ladner (2017) has called the “Canadian problem”: that Canada’s laws, policies, institutions, and norms support the ongoing colonization of Indigenous people, nations, knowledges, and lands. Specifically, her project explores how Canadians might change their shared values and political practices in dialogue with Indigenous political thought and how Canadian political theorists can respond to calls from their Indigenous colleagues to decolonize political theory and Canadian politics.
Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Kaitie joined the Department of Political Studies in 2019 as a Master’s student in Political and Legal Thought. She received her Bachelor of Humanities with High Distinction from Carleton University’s College of the Humanities, during which she completed a year of study at Cardiff University in Wales.
Selected Awards
- Stanley Drabek Graduate Award (2024)
- SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral (2021-2024)
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2020-2021)
- SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s (2019-2020)
- Queen’s University Tri-Agency Recipient Recognition Award (2019-2020)
Teaching Fellowships
Winter 2025 POLS 320: Indigenous Politics
Winter 2024 POLS 451: Topics in Political Theory – Settler Colonialism in Canada
2023-present POLS 590: Honours Thesis in Political Studies
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Jourdeuil, Kaitie. 2024. “Reorienting Territorial Rights: The Case for Grounded Normative Theory.” Canadian Journal of Political Science.
Edited Volumes
(forthcoming 2024) “Margaret Moore: A Political Theory of Territory.” In Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights, edited by Kevin Gray and Laura Lo Coco. Dordrecht: Springer.
Op-Eds
Jourdeuil, Kaitie and Dax D’Orazio. “Podcasting is Research Too.” University Affairs, January 18, 2024.
Jourdeuil, Kaitie. “This Canada Day, Settler-Canadians Should Think About Land Back.” The Conversation, June 29, 2022.
Other Media
2023. Extremism, Polarisation, and the Future of Democracy. Podcast co-hosted and produced with Dax D’Orazio. Centre for Constitutional Studies, University of Alberta.
Selected Conference Presentations
2024. “Putting Political Theory on the Hook: Philosophers as Listeners and Knowledge Producers.” Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference, McGill University.
2024. “Information Discovery as Political Praxis: Reflections on Instructing Critical Information Discovery at the Undergraduate Level.” (co-authored with Kayla Dold) Sustaining Shared Futures…For Whom? Conference. Montréal, QC.
2023. “Territorial Dispossession in Settler States: Insights from Grounded Normative Theory.” MANCEPT Political Theory Workshop, University of Manchester.
2023. “Territorial Rights in Settler States: A Contextual Approach.” Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference, York University.