Team

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. 

Paul L. Gareau is Métis and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Grounded in Métis Studies and Indigenous Studies, as well as Religious Studies, Gareau’s work centres on theory and methodology around relationality, gender, Indigenous epistemologies, land and place, and sovereignty/peoplehood.

Guillaume Gendreau is currently a master’s student at the Université de Sherbrooke, specializing in international political communication and democratic risks, in collaboration with Sciences Po Aix and the Université Catholique de Louvain. Prior to beginning his graduate studies, he completed a bachelor’s degree in applied politics with a specialization in communications at the Université de Sherbrooke. As part of his duties at the Chair, Guillaume works as a research assistant and actively contributes to the social network monitoring team. His areas of expertise include political communication and Canadian politics.

Pier-Luc Genesse is a 3rd year student at the Université de Sherbrooke’s School of Applied Politics. However, he has now completed his final year of undergraduate studies at the Université de Montréal, and plans to continue on to a master’s degree. He is particularly interested in international relations issues.

Charlotte Gilson is a communications student at the Université de Sherbrooke. Before starting her master’s degree, she completed a bachelor’s degree in Political Science at the Université de Namur. She is writing a dissertation on the journalistic treatment of the radical right during election periods in television interviews in France and Canada, under the supervision of Marie-Eve Carignan.

Isaac Gnocchini, a master’s student at the Université du Québec à Montréal, holds a degree in political science with a major in international relations. During a course on pan-European security, he discovered an interest in radicalization and social cohesion, particularly during the period of COVID-19. Leaving international relations to one side, he turned his attention to the political sociology and securitization of extreme right-wing movements in Canada as part of his dissertation on the polarization and radicalization of social discourse in Canada.

Cumulating more than twenty (20) years of experience in the film industry, David Hall is an accomplished producer and filmmaker whose documentary Blekkmetal, about the single edition of the festival of the same name, which took place in Norway in 2015. Critically acclaimed, the concert film explores the origins of Norwegian black metal. Mr. Hall is a researcher with Project SOMEONE’s Landscape of Hope initiative.

Alexandra Joseph is a doctoral student in law, lawyer and lecturer at the Université de Sherbrooke. Her research interests include the regulation of content on social networking sites and communicative approaches to law.

Élisabeth Kaine is an associate Associate professor Professor of art Art at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. She is involved in many fields of design. She has received grants from CALQ and the Canada Council for the Arts, leading research teams on numerous projects. Élisabeth co-founded and headed La Boîte Rouge VIF from 1999 to 2017, an NPO dedicated to the promotion and transmission of Indigenous cultures. Since 2018, she has been co-holder of the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Transmission among First Peoples as a Dynamic of Well-Being and Empowerment.

Martin Lalonde is a regular professor in the School of Visual and Media Arts’ education unit at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). His research interests include the impact of mobile digital technologies on teaching and learning, the intersection between the disciplines of art education and social work in the context of intervention with vulnerable populations, and amateur practices in visual and media creation among young people. Mr. Lalonde is a researcher with Project SOMEONE’s Landscape of Hope initiative.