Camille Robert

Camille Robert is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Montreal, a member of the editorial board of Histoire Engagée, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Labour / Le Travail. Her research focuses on the history of women, labor, the state, public services, and social movements in contemporary Quebec. Her current project, funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec, aims to trace the community and union organizing efforts of nurses of Caribbean and Filipino origin in Quebec.

She is the author of Toutes les femmes sont d’abord ménagères. Histoire d’un combat féministe pour la reconnaissance du travail ménager (Éditions Somme toute, 2017) and has co-edited several anthologies (Travail invisible. Portraits d’une lutte féministe inachevée, 2018; Trabajo invisible: Retrato de una lucha feminista inacabada, 2021; Écrire la ville. Pouvoirs, urbanités et modernités dans l’espace québécois (XIXe -XXe siècles), 2023). Her next book, titled Éduquer, soigner, résister. Les travailleuses de l’éducation et de la santé face au tournant néolibéral de l’État québécois (1980-1990), will be published by Presses de l’Université de Montréal.

Committed to promoting the dissemination of history, she collaborates with several media outlets and organizations.

Dernières nouvelles

Camille Robert’s dissertation has been shortlisted for the Political Book Prize

Lecture by Camille Robert at the Société Historique de Montréal

Invitation to a collective book launch

Participation of MHG members in two study days

Publication of the anthology Écrire la ville

Invitation to the “COVID in the House of Old” exhibition

Participation of MHG members at the 75th IHAF congress

Participation of our members at the IHAF and CCHT/CCLH conferences