Pierre Anctil is a full professor in the department of history of the University of Ottawa, where he teaches contemporary Canadian history. He has obtained a Ph. D. in Social anthropology from the New School for Social Research in New York. His main fields of interest are the history of immigration in Québec and in Canada, and Jewish culture in Montreal. He has also done work in the history of the French language press in Canada, notably concerning the ideological evolution of «Le Devoir». He has received in 2008-2010 a Killam fellowhip and is a member of the Royal Society of Canada. He has received many prestigious awards, notably the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award (2013) and the J.-I. Segal Literary Award (2012). He has a long list of publications.