Jocelyn Letourneau

Jocelyn Létourneau is Professor in the Department of history, Laval University, Quebec City, where he has been Canada Research Chair in Quebec’s Contemporary History from 2001 to 2015. A fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. in 1997-98, and of the Royal Society of Canada since 2005, Dr. Létourneau was attributed, in 2006, the Trudeau Foundation’s research prize and, in 2018, the André-Laurendeau prize for its overall contribution in the field of humanities. A regular visiting professor in foreign universities, he was the principal investigator in a SHRCC funded Community-University Research Alliance (Canadians and their Pasts). In 2010, he was a Fulbright scholar at both UC Berkeley and Stanford University and, in Fall 2015, a Visiting Research Associate at UCL-Institute of Education. Dr. Létourneau is the author or editor of many books. His latest publications include Je me souviens? Le passé du Québec dans la conscience de sa jeunesse (Fides, 2014), and Canadians and their Pasts(University of Toronto Press, 2013), for which is was a co-author. His latest book, a short history of Quebec (La Condition québécoise : récit d’une expérience historique), will be published in the Spring. ​