Associated Researchers

Tenured Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University

Historical demographer, her work focuses on issues of fertility, nuptiality and cultural mixing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has published numerous articles in which the gender dimension is brought to the forefront for the study of past populations. She is co-author, with Peter Gossage and Diane Gervais, of La fécondité des Québécoises, 1870 à 1970. D'une exception à l'autre (2007) and author of Québec. Une ville et sa population au temps de la Nouvelle-France (1991). Her recent and current research focuses on the different scales of cultural mixing in Quebec between 1881 and 1941 as well as on the baby boom phenomenon in Canada. She is currently directing the research project Du Québec aux États-Unis: Nouvelle étude socio-démographique de l’émigration canadienne-française 1850-1970 funded by SSHRC.