Yann Allard-Tremblay
Chercheur régulier dans l’axe de recherche: Nations et Diversité (Axe I) | Membre du CRIDAQ depuis 2026
Professeur associé – Sciences politiques – Université McGill.
yann.allard-tremblay@mcgill.caSpécialités
Peuples autochtones – Pensées politiques autochtones – Théorie démocratique – Constitutionnalisme – Pluralisme politique – Théorie politique contemporaine
Formation académique
- Professeur adjoint en science politique, Université McGill, 2020–2025.
- Chercheur postdoctoral, Groupe de recherche sur les études constitutionnelles, Université McGill, 2014–2016.
- Chercheur postdoctoral, Centre de recherche en éthique (CREUM), Université de Montréal, 2013–2014.
- Doctorat conjoint (Ph. D.) en philosophie, University of St Andrews et University of Stirling, 2012.
- Maîtrise (M. A.) en philosophie, option recherche, Université de Montréal, 2009.
- Baccalauréat (B. A.) en science politique et philosophie, Université de Montréal, 2007.
- Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. | 2023 – 2030 |
- Senior research associate. African Institute for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS). University of Johannesburg. | 2024-09 – 2027-08 |
- Co-editor of the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. | 2026 – |
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. | 2021 – 2026 |
En tant que chercheur principal :
- 2022-2026 “Disjuncture: Indigenous redirections in political theory.” SSHRC Insight Grant.
- 2025 Craig Dobbin Legacy Scholarship Award. Ireland Canada University Foundation, the UCD Centre for Canadian Studies, and the UCD College of Arts and Humanities. For a visit to UCD from 29-09-2025 to 10-10-2025.
- 2022-2025 “Les Têtes Volantes du Colonialisme d’Établissement” (2023-NP-310457). FRQSC. Soutien à la recherche pour la relève professorale.
- 2020-2022 “Disjunctive Indigenous Resistance and the Transformation of Political Thought.” SSHRC Insight Development Grant.
En tant que co-chercheur :
- 2022-2026 “Le pouvoir et la domination en contextes normatif, institutionnel et historique” (2023- SE3-318011). Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique. FRQSC. Research Team Support Program. Principal Investigator: Arash Abizadeh.
- 2020-2027 Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉ). FRQSC. Strategic Clusters Program. Principal Investigator: Ryoa Chung.
En tant que collaborateur :
- 2022-2025 “(Re)Searching for Canadian Studies.” SSHRC Partnership Development Grant. Collaborator. Principal Investigator: Jean Michel Montsion.
Ouvrages
- 2025. Disjunctures: Indigenous redirections in political theory. New York: Oxford University Press.
Finalist for the 2026 C.B. Macpherson Prize for the best book published in English or in French in the field of political theory.
Articles scientifiques et chapitres
- 2026. Allard-Tremblay, Yann, Éléna Choquette, Joyce Green, Gina Starblanket, Rebecca Major, and Didier Zúñiga. “Indigenous Scholarship, En Français SVP!” Journal of Canadian Studies 60(2): 242–59. *Not peer reviewed, but editorially vetted. https://doi.org/10.3138/jcs-2026-0509.
- 2026. “Equivocal Resistance; Challenging the Colonial Apprehension of Indigenous Political Resistance.” The Ethics of Uncivil Protest and Resistance. Edited by Avia Pasternak and Candice Delmas, 85-106. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197755020.003.0005
- 2026. (online first 2025) “A Great Ox Stands in Your Mind: Decolonial Caution about Epistemic Reparations and the Right to be Known.” Philosophical Studies 183(3-4): 879-898 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-025-02408-7
- 2025. McGuire, John, and Yann Allard-Tremblay. “Belaying the Inevitable: On Intellectual Collaboration in the Anthropocene.” Journal of World Philosophies 10, no. 1 (2025): 80–97. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/article/view/8311
- 2024. Allard-Tremblay, Yann, and Elaine Coburn. “‘Reviewer 2 Must Be Stopped’; Indigenous Contributions and Epistemic Domination in Political Science.” Appartenances & Altérités 5. https://doi.org/10.4000/12kpw.
French version: “« Il Faut Arrêter l’évaluateur N°2 ». Contributions Autochtones et Domination Épistémique En Sciences Politiques.” Appartenances & Altérités 5. https://doi.org/10.4000/12kq5. - 2024. “Politicizing Indigenous Self-Determination: The UNDRIP and Legal and Political Constitutionalism.” In Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism, edited by Amy Swiffen and Joshua Nichols, 91-116. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
- 2024. “Dispelling the Fantasy of Innocence: complicity and the cultivation of transgression in settler colonial contexts.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 57(1):1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423923000690
- 2023. “For Those Who Will Follow; Earth Marred and Renewing Relationships.” Constellations 30(2): 108-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12679
- 2022. “Braiding Liberation Discourses; Dialectical, Civic, and Disjunctive Views about Resistance and Violence.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 55(2), pp. 259-278. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423922000191
- 2022. “The Two Row Wampum: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Democratic Autonomy.” Polity 54(2): 225-249. https://doi.org/10.1086/718331
- 2021. “Harnessing Distrust and the Power of Intercession for the Separation of Powers.” Constitutional Forum 3(4): 37-44. *Not peer reviewed. https://doi.org/10.21991/cf29428
- 2023. (online first 2021) Coauthored with Elaine Coburn. “The Flying Heads of Settler Colonialism; or the Ideological Erasures of Indigenous Peoples in Political Theorizing.” Political Studies 71(2): 359-378. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217211018127
- 2021. (Online first 2019) “Rationalism and the silencing and distorting of Indigenous voices”. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 24(7): 1024-1047. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2019.1644581
