Team

Sandra Chang-Kredl is Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Concordia University. She conducts research on a wide range of topics in the field of education. Mrs. Chang-Kredl’s interests include teacher identity, curriculum studies, children’s popular culture, and cultural studies. She is a researcher with Project SOMEONE’s Landscape of Hope project.

In addition to being a composer, DJ and researcher, Owen Chapman is Associate Professor in Sound Production and Scholarship in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. Addressing the place of sound in everyday life through his research, Mr. Chapman’s audio work involves app design, live performance and electronic composition and has been featured internationally in video soundtracks, media workshops, site-specific installations as well as solo and group performances.

Emmanuel Choquette is a professor of communication in the Department of Communication at the Université de Sherbrooke. He is also a professor-researcher with the “Groupe de recherche en communication politique” (GRCP), a co-investigator with the “Centre pour l’étude de la citoyenneté démocratique” (CÉCD) and a member of the “Observatoire de l’humour” (OH). His work focuses on political communication, discursive strategies, social cohesion issues and humour studies. He has conducted post-doctoral research at the UNESCO-Prev Chair and the Centre for Research on Social Innovations and Transformations (CRITS) aimed at developing effective communication strategies to combat hate speech. He is also interested in the representation and “negative stereotyping” of cultural and religious minorities in the public space, particularly through humorous discourse.

Léa Clermont-Dion is a filmmaker and postdoctoral student at Concordia University. She has a PhD in political science from Laval University. Her research focuses on cyberviolences against women, feminist empowerment on social media, violence against women, etc. She has received the Vanier scholarship, one of the most prestigious doctoral scholarships in Canada. She is interested in online antifeminist radicalization and sexist hate speech. She is the director of three documentaries: T’as juste à porter plainte (Noovo), Backlash: Online Misogyny in The Digital Age (Radio-Canada and Documentary Channel) and Janette et filles (Télé-Québec). She is also the author of three books La revanche des moches (2014), Les Superbes (2016) and Crève avec moi (2019).

Mathieu Colin is a postdoctoral researcher at the UNESCO-PREV Chair. Ph.D in Religious Sciences from the Université de Montreal, he focuses on extreme right-wing ideologies in their most radical forms: accelerationism, conspiracy, neo-Nazism. He also analyzes the cultural and religious influences of these movements, from the study of memes to esotericism.

Mathieu Cook is a co-holder of the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Transmission among First Peoples as a Dynamic of Well-Being and Empowerment. He is a Professor in the Department of Human and Social Sciences at UQAC, where he teaches social intervention practices in an intercultural context and social research methodology. His current research and social commitments reflect a keen interest in the conditions of immigrants and the relations between non-native and native peoples.

Eva Croci is a Master’s student in International Public Policy – with an internship – and will collaborate, as a research assistant within the UNESCO-PREV Chair, on the research for the journal Hérodote on the section related to Mapping the extreme right in the United States, with a marked qualitative and quantitative focus on the definition of violent manifestations of the extreme right in the United States. Being a Master’s student in Applied Politics at the University of Sherbrooke, after a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science at the University of Montpellier, her field of interest is focused on international crime with a particular interest in counter-terrorism research. At the same time, she is conducting a directed study on the definition of extreme right-wing violence in the West today.

Thi Huong Dang is a lecturer in the Department of Information and Communication at Université Laval. She is also a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Sherbrooke’s Department of Communication and UNESCO-PREV Chair. With a doctorate in public communication, she is interested in how Vietnamese francophone media are used by the Vietnamese party-state as a means of communication and propaganda in the service of its soft power. As part of her post-doctoral project, she is working on evaluating the effectiveness of the #30secondes avant d’y croire training courses run by the Centre québécois d’éducation aux médias et à l’information (CQÉMI). Her research interests also include the motivations and actors of misinformation and propaganda in the media, and the challenges of artificial intelligence for the media in China and Vietnam. She worked as a journalist for the Courrier du Vietnam newspaper for 7 years, and as an intern and freelancer for a number of French-language newsrooms (RFI, France 2, TF1, Le Temps).

Emmanuelle Dufour holds a master’s degree in anthropology (Université de Montréal) focused on indigenous cultural security in a post-secondary context and a doctorate in art education (Concordia University). She is the author of the reflective and polyphonic comic strip, “C’est le Québec qui est né dans mon pays” (2021), to which more than fifty native and non-native people contributed. She works as a lecturer, graphic facilitator, and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion educational advisor at Collège Ahuntsic (Montréal).

Janie Dussault is pursuing a master’s degree in applied political studies – with a specialization in research at the University of Sherbrooke under the supervision of Professor Karine Prémont and the co-supervision of Professor Marie-Ève Carignan. During her bachelor’s degree in applied political studies (international relations profile), she developed an interest in identity issues in the United States, specifically the far-right white American identity. Her master’s thesis examines how the epistemology of civil rights and anti-racist struggles is instrumentalized by white supremacist leaders on social media in the United States. Furthermore, her work stems from a desire to contribute to the scientific literature on the use of social media by far-right groups as well as on the instrumentalization of the civil rights discourse by identity nationalism.