Professor
Department of Political Science, P.O. Box 17,000, Station Forces, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7K 7B4
Christian Leuprecht (Ph.D., Queen’s) is professor of political science at the Royal Military College of Canada and Matthew Flinders Fellow in the College of Business, Government and Law at the Flinders University of South Australia. In 2016 he was elected a member of the New College of the Royal Society of Canada; he is also a recipient of RMCC’s Research Excellence Award. He holds a Governor-in-Council appointment to the governing Council of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, is president of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 01: Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution, and a United Nations Security Structure Expert. He is Senior Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute and cross-appointed to the Department of Political Studies and the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University where he is also a fellow of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations and the Queen’s Centre for International and Defence Policy. An expert on security and defence, political demography, and comparative federalism and multilevel governance, he is regularly called as an expert witness to testify before committees of the Parliament of Canada.
Background
- Queen's University, Ph.D., 2003
- University of Toronto, M.A., French, 1999
- University of Toronto, M.A., Political Science, 1998
- Université Pierre Mendès-France, Institut d'études Politiques de Grenoble, M.A., 1997
- University of Toronto, B.A. with honors, 1992
- Royal Military College of Canada, Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research, 2017
- Member, Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, since 2016
- Maureen Molot Prize for Best Article, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 2014
- Royal Military College of Canada Commandant’s Commendation for exceptional service, 2014, 2017
- Institute for Public Administration of Canada Pierre deCelles Teaching Award (nominee), 2009 and 2010
- RMC Teaching Excellence Award (nominee), 2009
- Secretary and Treasurer, International Political Science Association, Research Committee 16 (socio-political pluralism), since 2003
- Bicentennial Visiting Associate Professor in Canadian Studies, Yale University, 2009-2010
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada post-doctoral fellow, 2003-2005
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellow, 2001-2003
- Royal Military College of Canada, Centre for Security, Armed Forces and Society, Fellow, 2014-present
- Royal Military College of Canada, Department of Political Science and Economics, Associate Professor/Deputy Head, 2010-2012 (promoted 2009)
- Royal Military College of Canada, Department of Political Science and Economics, Assistant Professor, 2005-2009
- Queen's University, Adjunct Associate Professor, 2009-present
- Queen's University, School of Policy Studies and Department of Political Studies, Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2005-2009
- Queen's University, Defence Management Studies Program, Fellow 2006-2011
- Queen's University, Queen's Centre for International Relations, Fellow, 2004-present
- Queen's University, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Fellow, 2003-present
- Yale University, Bicentennial Visiting Associate Professor in Canadian Studies, 2009-2010
- Swedish National Military Academy,Visiting Professor, June 2009
- Université Pierre Mendès-France, Grenoble, Visiting Professor, 2015-present
- University of Augsburg, Visiting Professor, 2011