Visiting fellows

We very much enjoy hosting visiting fellows at Te Wai Ariki, including:

Professor David Macdonald, a highly-regarded political science professor at the University of Guelph, Canada focusing on comparative Indigenous politics in Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States.

I am a biracial Indo-Trinidadian and Scottish political science professor at the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada). I am from Treaty 4 lands in Regina, Saskatchewan. I was appointed as the Research Leadership Chair for the college from 2017 to 2020. I have a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics, where I also served as Deputy Editor and Book Reviews Editor at Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Before coming to Guelph, I was Pūkenga Matua (Senior Lecturer) in Political Studies at Otago University, and Assistant Visiting Professor at the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris - ESCP Business School. I have been the field coordinator for the PhD core course in International Relations. I have written four books, co-edited four, and have co-authored two political science textbooks with Oxford University Press, in addition to book chapters and journal articles. Some of my writing is on comparative foreign policy, International Relations, and comparative Indigenous politics. I have a 5-year SSHRCC Insight Grant (with co-researcher Sheryl Lightfoot) on Indigenous practices of self-determination in comparative perspective, with a focus on Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand . Recent books are The Sleeping Giant Awakens: Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation (University of Toronto Press, 2019) and Populism and World Politics: Exploring Inter- and Transnational Dimensions, co-edited with F.A. Stengel and D. Nabers (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019). I am a fellow at the Australia Centre (University of Melbourne) and at Te Puna Rangahau o te Wai Ariki / NZ Centre for Indigenous Peoples and the Law (University of Auckland) and a member of the Royal Commission Forum monitoring the work of the NZ Royal Commission on Abuse in Care. I am also a member of the Reconciliation Committee of the Canadian Political Science Association and an incoming member of the Committee on the Status of Representation and Diversity of the International Studies Association. Check out my website for more info.

Eloise Ouellet Decoste, a LLD candidate at the Département des sciences juridiques of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) where she studies the right to reparation for settler colonialism in light of international standards and is a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and a Fonds de recherche du Québec scholar. Éloïse is also a pro bono lawyer and lecturer at UQÀM's International Clinic for the Defence of Human Rights.