Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Montreal, Dominique Caouette is currently Asian and Indo-Pacific Studies Chair and Acting Director of the Asian Studies Center. He also leads the Observatory on Human Rights.
Dominique teaches courses on international relations and Southeast Asian politics. His research revolves around issues of civil society, transnational social movements, land and natural resources, and contentious politics in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Philippines. These research areas led to articles and co-edited books including Agrarian Angst and Rural Resistance in Contemporary Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2009), Solidarities Beyond Borders: Transnationalizing Women’s Movements (UBC Press, 2010), Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization: Social Movements and Critical Perspectives (Zed Books, 2016), and more recently, Southeast Asia at the Crossroads of Powers (PUM, 2019), and Issues and Challenges of International Development: Actors and Fields of Action (PUO, 2019).