History in the Now Conversations

Richard Y. Bourhis obtained a BSc in Psychology at McGill University, and a Ph. D. in Social Psychology at the University of Bristol, England (1977). He was Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at McMaster University and was full professor in the Psychology Department of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) where he was elected Emeritus professor in 2017. Richard published severa...

Daniel Weinstock is the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in the Faculty of Law and the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. He also held a James McGill Professorship at McGill from 2013 to 2019. He was the Director of McGill’s Institute for Health and Social Policy from 2013 to 2020. Before moving to McGill in 2012, he was a Professor in the Department of Philosophy of the Université de Montré...

Mark Silverberg is a poet, an Emeritus Professor of English, and a teacher of mindfulness meditation and Buddhist spirituality. After retiring as a full professor from Cape Breton University, he spent time travelling in Asia (Burma, Thailand, Hong Kong, Vietnam) and settled in Montreal where he continues to pursue academic, literary and spiritual interests. He is the author of  The New York School...

Bruce Maxwell is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Montreal. A former humanities teacher at the college level and ethicist by training, he teaches courses on education law, professional ethics, and the history of educational ideas. He has produced a number of written works on these topics including, most recently, the co-authored book Professional Ethics and L...

Claudia Michell is a Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University in Montreal, where she is the Founder and Director of the Participatory Cultures Lab. She is also an Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Claudia's empirical work focuses on participatory visual and arts-based research particularly in the context of socia...

Daniel Goldsmith has been teaching in the humanities department at Dawson College since 2009, where his courses deal with questions of self-identity, compassionate action, and enlightened consciousness. His courses draw on his formal education (BA and MA from McGill University), as well as the nearly 2 years he spent in India learning about yoga and meditation. He is a Certified Core Energetics Pr...

Lauren Bialystok is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto.  She is a member of the Advisory Board to the Centre for Ethics and affiliated with the Centre for Jewish Studies. Her research spans topics in ethics, education, and identity; she has published on authenticity, social justi...

Tristan Verboven (BFA, M.Ed, MA.) is currently employed at Bois de Boulogne College in Montreal as an English Teacher. Tristan has a diverse professional background. After studying Fine Arts (Film Animation) at Concordia, he travelled through Europe and the Middle East, working in film and radio, and teaching English, as well as taking on odd jobs as a tour guide, photographer and UN field officer...

Constantine (Dean) Soulellis is a physician currently residing in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with his two sons. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Physiology from McGill University in 1998 and went on to complete a medical degree there (2002), as well as a residency in Internal Medicine (2005) followed by a Gastroenterology specialty (2007) and a subspeciality in Advanced Therapeutics/Biliary (200...

David I. Waddington is a Professor in the Department of Education at Concordia University who specializes in the philosophy of education. His research interests include teacher free speech, video games and citizenship, philosophical questions in science and technology education, and the history and philosophy of progressive education (esp. John Dewey). Prof. Waddington is also Co-Director of the C...

Paul Zanazanian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. His research examines historical consciousness’s workings in social actors’ everyday means of knowing and doing when constructing social reality for purposes of living life. Theoretically and methodologically, he explores historical consciousness’s role in the development of individ...

Michelle Kennedy is a member of Oneida of the Thames First Nation, raised in London, Ontario, Bear Clan. Michelle is a registered teacher with the Ontario College of Teachers, specializing in Junior-Intermediate Native Studies. In her MA degree, her research focused on Indigenous community leadership in the area of violence prevention of Indigenous women and girls. She is a PhD Candidate in Cultur...

Dwayne Donald is a descendent of amiskwaciwiyiniwak (Beaver Hills Cree), Metis, and Norwegian ancestry. He works as a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. He is also a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Reimagining Teacher Education with Indigenous Wisdom Traditions. REFERENCING FOR CITATION PURPOSES : Zanazanian, P. (Host) & Donald, D. (Guest). (2025, June) How his...

Dr. Tabi completed his doctoral degree in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE/University of Toronto. He has also successful completed a post-doctoral appointment through the Black Child and Youth Studies Network at the University of Windsor. Further, Dr. Tabi holds an M.Ed degree in Human Development and Applied Psychology and has extensive teaching experience in sociology, community educati...

Jayne Malenfant is an Assistant Professor at McGill University, in Tio'tiá:ke/Montreal. They work with institutional ethnography and anarchist education to explore the experiences of youth and adults navigating homelessness, the engagement of people with lived and living experience of housing precarity in advocacy and research, and the experiences of Two-Spirit, trans, and non-binary communiti...

Steven Jordan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education and an Associate member of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. He has published in several fields, including critiques of qualitative research, Indigenous program evaluation, workplace learning education, participatory action research and whole person care. He serves on the editorial boards of th...

Dr. Blane Harvey is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University (Canada), where he leads the Leadership and Learning for Sustainability Lab. He is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work spans across the social and natural sciences on the themes of learning, collaboration, environmental change, and education for sustai...

Dr. Tina C. Montreuil is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and an Associate Member of the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at McGill University. She is a Scientist at the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre and a PI with the Montreal Antenatal Well-Being Study; a prospective cohort study investigating women’s health during...

Michael Lipset is a scholar, author, educator, artist, creative producer and Hip-Hop head. His work sits at the intersections of critical arts pedagogies, education change, pushout re-engagement, teacher preparation, and social justice. He holds a Ph. D. in Education Studies from McGill University with an Ed. M. in the Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a publis...

Vivek Venkatesh, PhD is Dean of the Faculty of Education and a James McGill Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Since 2017, Vivek has held the UNESCO co-Chair in Prevention of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism. Vivek is a filmmaker, musician, curator and applied learning scientist whose research and research-creation programs...

Dr. Signy Sheldon is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology and the director of the Sheldon Memory Lab at McGill University. Dr. Sheldon studies the mechanisms that allow us to recall the past in different ways and why we have such a flexible memory, using behavioural and brain imaging techniques. She has been recognized as leader in the field of cognitive neuroscience, receiving a...

Joseph (Joe) Levitan, (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. Since 2010, he has been working with communities in multiple contexts on community-based action research projects to address deep challenges to education, wellbeing, health, and prosperity. Joe currently engages in Community-Based Participatory Action Research projects i...

Introduction to the History-in-the-Now Conversations Podcast Series REFERENCING FOR CITATION PURPOSES : Zanazanian, P. (Host). (2024, September 1st). How history lives within us: Paul Zanazanian introduces History in the Now Conversations https://historyinthenow.com/podcast/ *This podcast, History in the Now Conversations , emerges from my research which can be found in my book: Zanazanian, P. (20...