Dr. Dan Furukawa Marques

Associate Professor

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Biography

Dan Furukawa Marques holds a Ph.D. in political thought from the University of Ottawa. He served as the holder of the Alban D'Amours Chair in Teaching Leadership in Sociology of Cooperation at Laval University from 2018 to 2024. Marques is an associate researcher at the Centre for the Study of Social Movements (CEMS) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and regularly collaborates with the Research Center on Social Innovations (CRISES) and the Research Team on Governance and Inclusion in Latin America (ÉRIGAL). He co-founded CRITIC, a collective focused on reflections and interventions regarding the transformations of commons and institutions. His early works, inspired by political phenomenology, examined the construction of cooperative communities and political subjectivities grounded in collective work, participatory democracy, and solidarity economy, using ethnographic research within an agricultural cooperative linked to the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil. At Laval University, he teaches courses on political and social philosophy, globalization, citizenship, and social and political context in Latin America, alongside the sociopolitical dynamics in Quebec.

Research Interests

Experience

Associate Professor

2018-01-01 — Present

Laval University • Quebec City, QC, Canada

Teaching and research in sociology, focusing on cooperation and social movements.

Courses

Sociology of Cooperation Sociology of Social Movements Cooperation and Social Justice Capitalist Society Sociology of Development Summer School on Social Movements and Cooperation in Brazil Summer School on Cooperation, Commons, and Transformative Economies

Requirements for Laval University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.22
IELTS
Overall
Required:6.5
TOEFL
Total
Required:79
PTE
Overall
Required:53
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in business or related field Basic college-level mathematics
Application Checklist
  • Resume
  • Letter of intent
  • Academic transcripts
  • French proficiency test results (TCF/TFI)
Specialization Notes

Department of Management / MBA programs often require higher GPAs and specific English proficiency.