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Fry Noah, PhD Candidate

PhD Candidate
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Noah Fry

PhD Candidate

Graduate Students
Department of Political Science

Area(s) of Interest:

Biography

Noah is a Comparative Public Policy PhD Candidate. Broadly, his research areas include Canadian trade policy, interest groups and lobbying. His dissertation work examines the shifts in North American trade policy following the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). The consequences of these shifts relate to several debates within the Canadian political economic literature, including the path dependency established through continental trade and the participatory challenges invoked by a 'supra-constitutional' agreement. Prior to joining McMaster, Noah received an Honours BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE, emphasis Politics) from Mount Allison University and a Master in Political Studies from Queen's University.

Working Dissertation Title: State in Absentia: Re-Constitutionalizing Continental North America

This dissertation observes a shifting continental North American economic constitution. Under duress from a new bipartisan American trade policy, the decades of continental trade harmony supported by rules-based institutions like NAFTA is threatened. As argued, continental North America is in a new dissociative constitutional phase that is characterized by coercive rather than consent-based trade mechanisms. CUSMA and subsequent trade protectionism typify this new constitutional order. Canadian policymakers and civil society advocates will need to reclaim its state to match this moment.

Supervisor: Dr. Stephen McBride

Committee Members: Dr. Peter Graefe and Dr. Robert O'Brien

Areas of Interest:

  • Trade Policy
  • Interest groups
  • Lobbying 
  • Canadian politics
  • Comparative Public Policy

Awards & Funding:

  • CPSA 2023 Congress Graduate Merit Award [2023]
  • Ellen Looks Fairclough Scholarship [2023]
  • SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) - Doctoral [2022-2025]
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) [2022]
  • McMaster Scholarship
  • Queen's Entrance Scholarship
  • PPE Excellence Award [2019]
  • Independent Student Research Grant [2018]
  • Bell Achievement Scholarship [2015-2019]
  • Purdy Crawford Award [2015-2019]
  • Medavie Blue Scholarship [2015]
  • MHS MtA Entrance Award [2015]

Education

Ph.D Political Science / Comparative Public Policy (McMaster University): 2020 - ongoing

M.A. Political Studies (Queen's University): 2019 - 2020

Honours B.A. Philosophy, Politics and Economics - Emphasis Politics (Mount Allison University): 2015 - 2019 

Teaching

Teaching Assistance

POLSCI 3NN3 - Statistical Analysis of Primary Data - McMaster University - Dr. Todd Alway (Winter 2023) [EVALS]

POLSCI 2F03 - Politics, Power and Influence - McMaster University - Dr. Geoffrey Cameron (Fall 2022) [EVALS]

POLSCI 2D03 - Canadian Democracy - McMaster University - Dr. Peter Graefe (Winter 2022) [EVALS]

POLSCI 2NN3 – Politics by Design – McMaster University – Dr. Todd Alway (Fall 2021) [EVALS]

POLSCI 2F03 – Politics, Power and Influence – McMaster University – Dr. Peter Graefe (Winter 2021)

POLSCI 2NN3 – Politics by Design – McMaster University – Dr. Tim Fowler (Fall 2020)

POLS 212 – Canadian Politics – Queen’s University – Dr. Adrienne Davidson (Winter 2020) [EVALS]

POLS 211 – Canadian Government – Queen’s University – Dr. Adrienne Davidson (Fall 2019) [EVALS]

POLS 1001 – Foundations of Politics – Mount Allison University – Dr. Wayne Hunt (Winter 2019)

POLS 1001 – Foundations of Politics. – Mount Allison University – Dr. Jason Ferrell (Winter 2018)

Research

Peer-Reviewed Contributions

Fry, Noah. Forthcoming. "Lobbying Regulations in New Brunswick: Toward a Political Economic Account." Journal of New Brunswick Studies.

Fry, Noah. Forthcoming. "Testing the Laurentian Hypothesis: Regionalism and Federal Lobbying Access." Canadian Political Science Review.

Fry, Noah. 2023. "Dairy Concessions in Canadian Trade: A Discursive Institutionalist Account." Canadian Foreign Policy Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/11926422.2023.2168713.

McBride, Stephen and Noah Fry. 2022. "Locked in: Canadian Trade Policy and the Declining Liberal Order." In Canada and Great Power Competition: Canada Among Nations 2021, edited by David Carment, Jeremy Paltiel and Laura Macdonald, 25-47. London: Palgrave Macmillan. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04368-0_2

Graefe, Peter and Noah Fry. 2022. "Le patronat et le nationalisme dans un Québec conservateur." Recherches Sociographiques 63, no. 1-2: 157-77. http://doi.org/10.7202/1092386ar

Fry, Noah. 2022. “Lopsided Lobbying? Regulatory Opportunism and the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying.” Canadian Public Administration 65, no. 1 (March): 73-98. http://doi.org/10.1111/capa.12450

Journal Referee - 2 (Canadian Public Administration; Humanities and Social Sciences Communications) 

Conference and Workshop Presentations

Fry, Noah. 2022. "The Milky Way? Souring on Dairy Supply Management in Canadian Trade Policy." Presented at Canadian Political Science Association's 2022 Annual Conference. 

———. 2022. "The Milky Way? Dairy Concessions and Canadian Trade Policy." Presented at Mapping the Global Dimensions of Policy, McMaster University.

McBride, Stephen and Noah Fry. 2021. “Locked In: Canadian Trade Policy and the Declining Liberal Order.” Presented at Canada Among Nations 2021 Workshop, Carleton University.

Fry, Noah. 2021. “Canadian Trade Policy in an Age of Global Uncertainty: Beyond the Neoliberal Paradigm?” Presented at Mapping the Global Dimensions of Policy, McMaster University.

———. 2018. “Equity, Inclusion and Respect in Maritime Post-Secondary Policy.” Presented at SURF Conference, Mount Allison University.

Public Contributions and Popular Press

Fry, Noah. 2022, September 26. Panelist for Book Launch - Canada and Great Power Competition: Canada Among Nations 2021, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

———. 2022. "Why New Zealand is right to call out Canada on its dairy industry." The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/why-new-zealand-is-right-to-call-out-canada-on-its-dairy-industry-183802. [Republished with Stuff.co.nz and National Newswatch]

———. 2021, December 14. Interviewed on "The Bill Kelly Show." Global News Radio 900 CHML Hamilton. [Canadian responses to American EV credits]

———. 2021, December 6. Interviewed on "Mornings with Sue and Andy." Global News Radio 770 CHQR Calgary. [Canadian responses to American protectionism]

———. 2021. "Canada should look inward to address American protectionism." The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/canada-should-look-inward-to-address-american-protectionism-172274.

———. 2018. “Equity, Inclusion and Respect: Understanding and Preventing Personal Harassment in Post-Secondary Institutions in the Maritimes.” Report Presented to Mount Allison University. Marjorie Young Bell Endowment Fund.* 

———. 2018. Gaining Indigenous Representation. Sackville: Mount Allison Students’ Union.

 

*Funded by an independent research grant (Marjorie Young Bell Endowment) - $7000

Research Assistance

RA for Dr. Stephen McBride (“Back to the Future: Public Enterprise and Canadian Economic Development Prospects,” co-investigator with Heather Whiteside) – 2021 - ongoing

RA for Dr. Peter Graefe  - 2021

RA for Dr. Mario Levesque (“Fostering the Next Wave of Disability Leaders”) – 2020

RA for Dr. Mario Levesque (“Environmental Governance in the Gulf of St. Lawrence: Contested Political Relations in a Canadian Inland Sea”) - 2020