UBC Political Science would like to extend a warm welcome to Joëlle Alice Michaud-Ouellet.
Joëlle Alice Michaud-Ouellet comes to us from Simon Fraser University where she taught Political Theory in the French Cohort Program. She received her PhD from the University of Victoria in 2019. Prior to studying at UVic, where she also earned a Master’s degree, she received a B.A from Laval University in Quebec City.
Joëlle Alice’s research focuses on Indigenous and settler relations in Québec and Canada, as well classical and contemporary theories of self-determination.
As settler, researching Indigenous understandings of reciprocity, responsibility, and relationship to the land allows her to critically reflect on the limits of modern Western conceptions of self-determination, liberty, subjectivity, sovereignty, vulnerability, and interdependency.
