Pierre Anctil

Pierre Anctil is a Full Professor in the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa, specializing in Canadian identity formation and minority cultural studies with emphasis on Jewish and Yiddish communities in Canada.

His research spans critical dimensions of Canadian society:

• Canadian history and national identity politics
• Ethnicity, immigration, and linguistic integration
• Jewish community dynamics in Montréal and Canada
• Anti-Semitism, secularism, and systemic racism
• Canadian Yiddish literature and cultural preservation
• French-Canadian cultural evolution
• Urban anthropology of Canadian multiculturalism
• Election analysis at Quebec and federal levels
• Religious studies in secular contexts
• Translation theory in minority language contexts