Younghyun Lee is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She holds an M.A. from Korea University. Her research focuses on identity politics, immigrant integration, and the political behavior of immigrants, with a regional emphasis on Europe. Her dissertation, Included but Not Integrated? The Role of Positive Interaction with Natives in the Political Integration of Immigrants, examines how interpersonal contact between natives and immigrants fosters the psychological dimensions of political integration, especially in societies marked by strong anti-immigrant sentiment.

Dr Marie Gagné

Supervisor: Amy Poteete

Research Project Title: Protests against Large-Scale Land Acquisitions, Electoral Democracy, and the Emergence of Rural Citizenship in Senegal.

Bio: Marie Gagné holds a Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Société et culture (FRQSC). She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, with a specialization in development studies. Her research interests include questions of land access, forest governance, and agricultural development. Her postdoctoral project examines what opposition to large-scale land deals means for electoral democracy and citizenship in Senegal. More broadly, her work seeks to understand how global economic and political pressures are mediated and experienced in often unexpected ways in rural Africa. Keen to mobilize the potential of social sciences outside academia, Dr. Gagné has accumulated extensive professional experience as an independent consultant.

Dr. Juliette Dupont

Supervisors: Antoine Bilodeau and Mireille Paquet

PhD, Université de Montréal. Funded by the Initiative de Recherche sur l’Immigration and pursuing a research agenda focused on States’ marketing strategies to attract desirable migrants. Her dissertation in political science is entitled « Verrou ou Vitrine? Politiques du visa Schengen en Algérie et en Chine » and compares visa issuance practices by European States in Algeria and China.