Assistant Professor
PhD, Princeton University
christa [dot] scholtz [at] mcgill [dot] ca
Research interests
Aboriginal Politics, Comparative Politics (Industrialized States), Comparative Federalism, Canadian Politics, Energy Policy in Canada
Publications
2010. “Land claim negotiations and indigenous claimant legibility in Canada and New Zealand”. Political Science, 62(1): 37-61
"The Influence of Judicial Uncertainty on Executive Support for Negotiation in Canadian Land Claims Policy," Canadian Journal of Political Science 42:417-442, 2009
Negotiating Claims: The Emergence of Indigenous Land Claim Negotiation Policies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. (New York: Routledge, 2006)
Conference Papers
Land Claim Negotiations and Indigenous Claimant Legibility in Canada and New Zealand. Paper presented at Canada and New Zealand: Connections, Comparisons, and Challenges conference, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, February 2010
Land Claim Negotiations and Indigenous Claimant Legibility in Canada and New Zealand. Paper presented at the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Ottawa, Ontario, May 2009
Aboriginal Communities and the Charlottetown Accord: A Preliminary Analysis of Voting Returns. Paper presented at the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2008.
Obstructing Justice? : Federalism and Indigenous Land Claim Negotiations in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Presented at the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 2003
Pushing Land Claim Negotiations Forward: Examining Judicial Uncertainty, Government Spending, and the Filing of Indigenous Specific Claims in Canada. Presented at the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Toronto, Ontario, May 2002
Exploring the Negotiation Option. Presentation in the Treaty Seminar Series, Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, Australia, 27 August 2001
The Politics of Aboriginal Land Claims, Australian Law Students Association Annual Meetings, Canberra, Australia, 5 July 2001
Conference Rapporteur, Does Federalism Matter? Institutions and the Management of Territorial Cleavages. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 22-23 February 2000
Grants
2009-2012 Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture, Gouvernement du Québec (FQRSC). Etablissement de nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs. Aboriginal Politics and the Charlottetown Constitutional Accord: Diversity and Consensus