Marie-Ève Harton, Chairholder

Professor in the Département des sciences humaines at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières since January 2020, I have been working for more than 15 years on demographic components that have forged contemporary Quebec. With a team of students, research professionals and colleagues from various disciplinary backgrounds, I conduct research that seek to provide a better understanding of how Quebec’s regional populations have developed from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. More specifically, my work focuses on inter-regional mobility, Francophone migration in North America and on fertility transitions. I have published several articles and book chapters on issues of nuptiality, fertility, and migration through the prism of gender. I will soon publish a book based on my doctoral thesis entitled Reproduction familiale canadienne-française en Amérique du Nord. Québec et Manchester (New Hampshire), 1880-1911.

After my graduate studies in sociology (Université Laval), I completed a first postdoctoral internship at the Chaire de recherche sur les migrations, les transferts et les communautés francophones at the Université de Saint-Boniface, followed by a second internship in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Concordia University. Recipient of numerous awards and scholarships during my graduate studies and postdoctoral internships, I have collaborated with many researchers from diverse scientific backgrounds affiliated with Canadian, American, European and African universities in important projects such as Population et histoire sociale de la ville de Québec, Observatoire démographique et statistique de l'espace francophone and Déploiements canadiens-français en Amérique du Nord (1760-1914). In addition to directing the work of the Chair, I am currently a co-investigator in the partnership projects Trois siècles de migrations francophones en Amérique du Nord (1640-1940) directed by historian Yves Frenette and Du Québec aux États-Unis : Nouvelle étude socio-démographique de l'émigration canadienne-française, 1850-1970 directed by demographer Danielle Gauvreau. Within these two research teams, I am studying the demographic dynamics of French-Canadian populations at the continental scale while working on the development of important historical population data infrastructures.