Valérie Lapointe Gagnon

Valérie Lapointe Gagnon is a full professor of history at the Faculté Saint-Jean of the University of Alberta and director of the Institut Marcelle et Louis Desrochers pour le Patrimoine et les recherches transdisciplinaires en francophonies canadiennes et internationales (IMELDA). Her research interests include the intellectual and political history of contemporary Canada and Quebec, women’s history, Canadian Francophonies, constitutional issues, and Canada-Quebec relations. In 2018, she published with Boréal the essay Panser le Canada: une histoire intellectuelle de la Commission Laurendeau-Dunton , which received the Prix de la présidence de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec. She frequently comments on political news on Radio-Canada.