Graduate Student, Political Studies
PhD Candidate
Thesis Title: Challenging the Civic Nation
About
Stephen Larin is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University, and was the Student Representative on the Executive Committee of the Ethnicity and Democratic Governance project (http://www.queensu.ca/edg/). He will be an Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2012.
Stephen earned his BA in Political Science and Philosophy from McGill University, and his MA in Political Studies from Queen’s University under the supervision of Will Kymlicka. He is currently supervised by Margaret Moore and John McGarry.
His dissertation, titled "Challenging the Civic Nation", is a critical examination of civic nationalism that focuses on the disconnect between nationalist ideology and the social bases of nationhood, and the implications that this disconnect has for the viability of civic nationalism as a means of addressing policy issues such as intrastate nationalist conflict and immigrant integration.









