Marie-Blanche Fourcade

Dr. Marie-Blanche Fourcade is the Head of Collections and Exhibitions at the Montreal Holocaust Museum (MHM) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She specializes in heritage studies, museumology, and ethnology, with a focus on urban heritage, migration narratives, and diasporic cultural preservation. Her research bridges tangible and intangible heritage, exploring how cultural patrimony shapes communities and identities.

• Affiliations: MHM, UQAM, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (associate researcher)
• Research Interests: Urban heritage narratives, museum digitization, migration diasporas, and cultural policy

Her publications include seminal works such as Habiter l’Arménie au Québec (2011) and Patrimoines urbains en récits (2013), which analyze cultural heritage through ethnographic and urban lenses. She actively contributes to academic conferences, focusing on industrial heritage, sensitive patrimonialization, and intangible cultural mediation.