He was previously an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, the Skelton-Clark Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen’s University in 2010-11 and the University Postdoctoral Fellow at Memorial University in 2009-10. He received a PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia in 2009. His primary research interests are in the areas of political parties, Canadian politics, constituency campaigns, and the politics of federations and other multi-level states. He has contributed to the American Journal of Political Science and Canadian Public Policy, and co-edited Parties, Elections and the Future of Canadian Politics in 2013. He is also the author of Grassroots Liberals: Organizing for Local and National Politics (UBC Press, 2011). Lawrence LeDuc