Co-directors
Tania Gosselin spent several years in Eastern Europe and completed her PhD in political science at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. She is interested in the study of political attitudes and behaviors, political psychology, as well as in all aspects of politics in post-communist countries. Her research at LACPOP focuses on the role of information and media (framing), and the influence of emotions on citizens’ evaluations of political actors and public policies.
Allison Harell is a specialist in political behavior and public opinion in industrialized democracies. She is an expert in public opinion survey methodology and political science experimentation, with a particular interest in the implications of ethno-cultural diversity and gender for democratic citizenship. She co-directs the Consortium on Electoral Democracy, a partnership project responsible for the Canadian Election Study. She is also involved with the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship and a fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Researchers
Julian Durazo-Herrmann is a professor in the Department of Political Science and a specialist in Latin and South America. His research focuses on media systems and sub-national politics.
Dominic Duval is a professor in the Department of Social and Public Communication. He is a specialist in political communication and quantitative methods.
Stephanie Yates is a professor in the Department of Social and Public Communication. Her research focuses on social acceptability, public relations and organizational accountability.
Research associates
Anne-Marie Gingras specializes in political sociology and political communication. She is the author of Médias et démocratie: le grand malentendu (1999, 2006, 2009) and La communication politique: état des savoirs, enjeux et perspectives (2003). She has worked on social representations of democracy, freedom of expression and opinion radio, and the relationship of journalists to democracy, among other topics. As part of a project on access to information, she will use the Lab to explore the appropriation of information from institutional counter-powers by citizens.
Laura French Bourgeois holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Montreal and was a postdoctoral fellow at LACPOP from 2019-2022. She is currently affiliated with NEST at the University of Western Ontario and funded by SSHRC for her research on social norms and immigration issues.
Isabelle Gusse holds a PhD in sociology from the Université du Québec à Montréal and is a retired professor in the Department of Political Science at UQAM. She specializes in political communication. Her research focuses on Canadian government communication.
Christian Schimpt Henning was a postdoctoral fellow at LACPOP in 2021 and 2022, and is currently a Senior Behavioural Scientist at the University of Saskatchewan’s Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. He continues to work on projects related to the Electoral Democracy Consortium.
Matt Polacko is currently a postdoctoral fellow at University of Toronto. His research focuses on class voting and voting behavior. He specializes in the evolution of social cleavages and voting in Canada and Europe.
Coordinator
Marie-Alexe Chartrand-Péloquin is a master’s student in political science and feminist studies at UQAM and is the coordinator of LACPOP.
Student members
Ali Kapeta, PhD student, Department of Political Science, UQAM.
Annie Verreault, Master’s student, Department of Political Science, UQAM.
Antoine Thériault, Master’s student, Department of Political Science, UQAM.
Dominique Gagnon, PhD student, Department of social and public communication, UQAM.
Eduardo da Nobrega Monteiro is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at UQAM and specializes in comparative politics, populism, sub-nationalism, state and race.
Evens Mensah, PhD student, Department of Sociology, UQAM.
Guillaume Lachapelle-Dupuis, Master’s student, Department of Political Science, UQAM.
Janika Gilham-Tremblay, Master’s studient, Department of Political Science, UQAM.
Julien Lachapelle, Master’s student, Department of Political Science, UQAM.
Maxime St-Jean, undergraduate student, McGill University.
Sophie Painchaud, Master’s student, Department of Political Science, UQAM.