The 4th-year Honours cohort presented their thesis research at the Honours conference on April 13, 2026. Congratulations to all the students!
Honours students with Dr. Fred Culter at the 2026 Honours conference
Political Science Honours is a cohort program in which a small group of scholars learn from and support each other. Each honours student conducts an original research project as part of the program. This year, students presented on the following topics:
Lola Chambers – Before the Border, Beyond the Law: Legal Cartographies of AI-Enabled Migration Governance in Europe
Billy Du – Socialized Differently: European Immigration Attitudes and Cohort Socialization
Aliana James – When Openness Closes: The Shifting Politics of Immigration in Canada, 1993–2025
Isabelle Kang – State Legibility and the ‘American Plan’: Precarity, Informational Capacity, and the Chamberlain-Kahn Act of 1918
Ekaterina Kontos-Cohen – Timor-Leste’s Megaproject: The Spatial Distribution of Veteran Recognition and Its Logic
Xavier Largo – Reversal: How Generation Z Masculinity Changed the Trajectory of Contemporary American Politics
Annie Li – Mapping the Current Landscape of Indigenous-led AI Initiatives in Canada: Implications for Self-Determination Under Capitalism
Maya Mior – “This place is ours”: Institutional and Systemic Factors in Outcomes for Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation
Ria Shinde – From Threat to Service: Defensive Patriotism in the Recruitment of the Canadian Armed Forces
Tim Vong – Three Approaches to Right-Wing Populism: Social Identity Leadership and Social Capital in Canada
Rachel Yu – Foreign Policy (Dis)Continuity in the Philippines: Leadership, Constraints, and the Duterte–Marcos Transition
Manlin Zhong – The Structural Production of Internet Addiction in China from a Character-Formation Perspective
