Catherine Xhardez is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). As a political scientist, she is part of the CRIDAQ (Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie) and of Concordia’s Centre for the Study of Immigration and Politics (CSPI).

As part her postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Xhardez is conducting a comparative research agenda focusing on dynamics of immigration policymaking at the subnational level in federal states. More generally, she studies immigration, public policy, comparative politics, and federalism.

She holds a dual PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris and Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles.Her PhD dissertation is entitled « Intégrer pour exister ? Nationalisme sous-étatique et intégration des immigrés en Flandre et au Québec » (“Why integrate? Sub- state nationalism and immigrant integration in Flanders and Quebec”). She graduated in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris (Political Theory). She also graduated in Law from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Master in de rechten – Master of Laws, LL.M publiek recht/public law).

From December 2015 to May 2016, she was a Visiting Assistant in Research at Yale University (MacMillan Center). From May 2016 to October 2016, she was in Montreal for a research stay at McGill University. In 2018, she was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University (OXPO Visiting Scheme). She is the co-coordinator of the Working Group Political Theory and FéDéRé within the Belgian Association of Political Science (ABSP) and she co-edits the association’s blog (BePolitix). She is also a member of the Editorial Team of the journal Federal Governance.