Team

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.

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).

Sylvain Delouvée is a senior lecturer in social psychology at Rennes 2 University (France). He is co-director of the “Violence, Risks, Vulnerability” course (psycho-criminological and victimological approaches) in the Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, Psychopathology and Health Psychology. His research focuses on the interaction between social and psychological factors that influence social thinking, beliefs and behavior when individuals or groups encounter situations that may be perceived as uncertain, risky or extreme. In more applied terms, it focuses on the processes of social and cognitive adaptation to environmental risks (e.g. climate change), health or biological risks (emerging infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance, vaccine hesitancy), societal risks (terrorism and radicalization) and the uncertainties associated with these situations.

With a bachelor’s degree in applied political studies and communication, Naomie Do is currently studying for a master’s degree in applied politics – security and intelligence at the Université de Sherbrooke.Passionate about political communication, she is interested in the phenomenon of political polarization and the rise of radicalization on social networks, as well as any climate disinformation issues.

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).

Alix Dusablon is a master’s student in applied politics – intelligence and security at the Université de Sherbrooke. She is particularly interested in issues related to foreign interference and its repercussions. Throughout her academic and professional career, she has cultivated a keen interest in national security issues. Through her involvement with the UNESCO-PREV Chair, she hopes to deepen her research skills and actively contribute to the advancement of knowledge in her fields of interest.

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.

Thaïs Elbartal is a final-year student in the triple Master’s program in International Political Communication and Democratic Risks offered by the Université de Sherbrooke in collaboration with the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and Sciences Po Aix (France).As part of her dissertation, she is looking at the role of institutional and associative players in the context of radicalization prevention in French-speaking Belgium.

Dalia Elsayed is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Education at Concordia University. Dalia’s research focuses on race, identity, intersectionality, and feminist epistemology. Her scholarship seeks to understand blackness in a global perspective, focusing particularly on the experiences of Black graduate students in Canadian institutions. In doing so, Dalia is interested in understanding the different narratives and frameworks that contribute to the construction and articulation of Black identity/identities globally.