PhD Students

(Supervisor) Jean-Mathieu Dessailly. School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa (in progress).

(Supervisor) Grégoire Legault, The Corresponding Responses in Four Southeast Asian States to the Evolution of Chinese Foreign Policy under President Xi Jinping, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa (in progress).

(Committee member). Ashley Poon, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, The Social Credit System in China (in progress).

(Committee member) Maï-Lan Thaler, L’instrumentalisation du bouddhisme dans la diplomatie de la République Populaire de Chine depuis l’accession au pouvoir de Xi Jinping (2012) : nouvelles stratégies d’influence dans les relations avec Taïwan, les pays d’Asie du Sud-Est et les communautés de la diaspora chinoise, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa. PhD defended in March 2025.

(Committee member) Jonathan Brasnett, Double Standards in International Relations: How Realpolitik Considerations Deter Muslim-Majority States from Defending Muslims in China, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, PhD defended in June 2021.

(External examiner) Matthew Gaudreau, Constructing China’s National Food Security: Power, Grain Seed Markets, and the Global Political Economy, Faculty of the Environment, University of Waterloo, PhD defended in July 2019.

(Internal examiner) Francis Gaudreault, Chasing the ‘East Asian Miracle’ in Africa? A case study analysis of the Rwandan governance reform process since 2000, Public Administration, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, PhD defended in April 2019.

MA Students

(Supervisor) Taylor Zhang (MA), School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa (in progress).

(Supervisor) Marie Laberge (MA), School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, L’utilisation du sport comme soft power par les puissances autoritaires : une comparaison des cas chinois et saoudien, University of Ottawa (in progress).

(Supervisor). Francisco Correra (MA), School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, The Rise of China and Canadian sovereignty (MRP completed 2024).

(Committee member) Ryan Miller, The Political Economy of Wheat Trade: Understanding Resource Scarcity in the 21st Century, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, (MRP completed in December 2023).

(Committee member) Patrick Leong, Splintering Global Climate Governance? China and the Belt and Road Initiative International Green Development Coalition, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, (MRP completed in spring 2023).

(Committee member) Camille Bourgeois-Fortin, The Educational Exclusion of Migrant Children in China: Addressing the Failure of the 2014 Hukou Reform with Respect to Universal Education, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa (MA thesis defended in December 2022).

(Supervisor) Yiwen Song, Institutional Flexibility and Business-Government Ties in China: A Comparative Study of Subnational Online Ride-Sharing Policymaking in Chengdu and Jinan, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa (MA thesis defended in December 2021).

(Committee member) Akam Karani, Authoritarian Populism and the Social Investment State: Can Active Labour Market Programs and Investments in Education Suppress The Electoral Support For Authoritarian Populist Parties?, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa (MRP completed in April 2020).

(Supervisor) Samuel Rancourt Duchesne, International Factors and authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and elite cohesion in Malaysia and Indonesia, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa (MRP completed in August 2018).