Dr. Adrienne Davidson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. She studies public policy with a focus on social policy (including early childhood education and public schooling), Indigenous-state relations, and the political dynamics of federal systems. 

Dr. Davidson earned her PhD in political science from the University of Toronto. She was also previously a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the Center for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and the Skelton-Clark Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen’s University. Her work has been published in the Journal of Behavioural Public Policy, Regional & Federal Studies, Canadian Journal of Political Science, and Public Policy & Administration, among others.