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Kaitie Jourdeuil

She/Her

Political Studies

Post Doctoral Fellow

kaitie.jourdeuil@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, B309

Brief Biography

Kaitie Jourdeuil (PhD, Queen’s University, 2025) is the 2025-26 Buchanan Postdoctoral Fellow in Canadian Democracy in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s. Her research, which sits at the intersection of Political Theory and Canadian Politics, is guided by two questions: (1) What does it mean to live well in community with others? and (2) How do we establish and maintain respect and mutual understanding between different political communities? Her doctoral research examined 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. Her postdoctoral project explores how citizens can act in ways that promote mutual respect with Indigenous peoples and the land in their community.

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 2026 - POLS 401: Political Theory: Questions and Challenges

Fall 2025 - POLS 320: Indigenous Politics

Winter 2025 - POLS 320: Indigenous Politics

Winter 2024 - POLS 451: Topics in Political Theory – Settler Colonialism in Canada              

2023-2025 - POLS 590: Honours Thesis in Political Studies

Selected Publications

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Jourdeuil, Kaitie. 2025. “Territorial Justice as Structural Justice: Settler Colonialism and Territorial Rights Theory.” Critical Review of International, Social, and Political Philosophy. First View: 1-21.

Jourdeuil, Kaitie. 2024. “Reorienting Territorial Rights: The Case for Grounded Normative Theory.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 57(4): 791-815.

Edited Volumes

Jourdeuil, Kaitie. 2025. “Margaret Moore: A Political Theory of Territory.” In Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights, edited by Kevin W. Gray. Springer Nature Switzerland. .

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.