The School of Research congratulates Camille Collin and Tristan Boursier, associate research fellows at CEVIPOF, who have been selected by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Diversity and Democracy (CRIDAQ, UQAM) to undertake a postdoctoral fellowship during the 2025-2026 academic year.

This one-year fellowship will enable them to carry out a research project in one of CRIDAQ's three scientific areas, under the supervision of members of the centre.

Tristan Boursier

With a PhD in political science from the University of Montreal and Sciences Po Paris, Tristan Boursier will develop a project entitled Counter-movement, online influencers and metapolitics: understanding the divergent trajectories of politicisation according to gender among young people.

His work explores how discourses originating from counter-movements (anti-feminism, masculinism, alt-right, etc.) are taken up and disseminated by media figures in order to shape the political engagement of young people, particularly young men.

Drawing on a unique database of 22,000 French-language YouTube videos and 10 million comments, the project uses automatic language processing tools (LLM, SIED) to analyse the ideological convergence of this content.

This internship is supervised by Stéphanie Tremblay.

Camille Collin

Camille Collin holds a PhD in political science (specialising in political theory) from Sciences Po Paris and is pursuing a project entitled Post-mortem justice: past and present demands for equality in death, under the supervision of Naïma Hamrouni.

Based on the study of two contemporary forms of activism—collectives working for the burial of deceased migrants and those organising funerals for the homeless—her project questions the meaning of post-mortem justice.

By analysing the demands of these groups, she highlights the structural inequalities that persist beyond life and proposes a critical theory that focuses on the power relations underlying funeral practices.

International recognition

The selection of Camille Collin and Tristan Boursier by CRIDAQ attests to the scientific quality and international influence of the research conducted at CEVIPOF and the School of Research.

We offer them our congratulations and wish them all the best in their future work in Montreal.

Find out more

• About Tristan Boursier
• About Camille Collin
• About the PhD in Political Science
• About CEVIPOF
• See the announcement on the CRIDAQ website