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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University

Mark is an Associate Professor in the Department of Policy and Governance at the Crawford School of Public Policy. He joined the ANU in early 2024 from the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, where he had been an Associate Professor of Politics and former Deputy Head of the National School of Arts, overseeing the School of Arts in Victoria. Prior to ACU, Mark was a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne from 2011 to 2013. Trained as a political scientist and lawyer, Mark holds degrees from the Australian National University and the University of Queensland, which awarded him his PhD in 2010. He is a former Vice President of the Australian Political Studies Association.

Experience

  • 2015–present
    Associate Professor of Politics, Australian Catholic University
  • 2013–2014
    Lecturer in Politics, Australian Catholic University
  • 2011–2013
    McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne

Education

  • 2010 
    University of Queensland, PhD / Politics

Publications

  • 2014
    Democracy Against Itself: Sustaining an Unsustainable Idea, http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748681884
  • 2013
    Theorising Democide: When and How Democracies Fail, http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/theorising-democide-mark-chou/?K=9781137298683

Research Areas

  • Citizenship (160602)