Patricia Mockler
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Political Science
Patricia Mockler is an assistant professor, teaching stream in the Department of Political Science. Mockler earned her PhD in political studies from Queen’s University in 2022. Her dissertation work explored citizens’ assemblies on climate change in Canada and the United Kingdom. Most recently, Mockler was a postdoctoral fellow at Western University where she studied the gendered and racialized impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on political participation in Canada. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Mockler’s research interests include political participation, deliberative democracy, democratic innovations, and how the politics of gender and race structure political engagement. Her work focuses on this heterogeneity in political participation in the Canadian context, with an emphasis on non-electoral forms of participation. She has recently published work in the journals Sustainability, Comparative European Politics and Election Law. In addition, she recently contributed to a volume with Bristol University Press that brought together leading international experts on deliberative democracy. Deliberative Mini-Publics: Core Design Features was published in 2021.
Mockler is an experienced instructor and has developed curriculum for courses on Canadian politics, democratic innovations and electoral systems through teaching positions at King’s University College at Western University, Queen’s University, and the Royal Military College of Canada. She has facilitated experiential-learning opportunities both on and off campus through the Queen’s Political Studies Summer Institute.
Mockler recently completed training modules through Queen’s University’s Professional Development in the University Teaching and Learning program and looks forward to further pedagogical development through her teaching-stream appointment.