Isabelle Bouchard

Isabelle Bouchard is a regular professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), where she teaches the history of indigenous peoples in Quebec and Canada as well as the history of New France. Her research interests focus on the political, legal and land history of First Nations communities in the St. Lawrence Valley in the 18th and 19th centuries.

She is the author of scientific articles published in collective works, such as Nouveaux regards en histoire seigneuriale au Québec (Septentrion, 2016), Québécois et Autochtones. Histoire commune, histoires croisées, ou histoires parallèles ? (Boréal, 2023) et Family and Justice in the Archives : Historical Perspectives on Intimacy and the Law (Concordia University Press, 2024). Her research has also been published in the Revue de la Société historique du Canada (2016) and in the Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française (2024). From 2013 to 2023, she served on the board of directors of the Société Recherches amérindiennes au Québec (now the Société Recherches Autochtones au Québec).

Her doctoral thesis (UQAM, 2017) focused on local power issues in the indigenous communities of Kahnawake and Odanak between the Conquest (1760) and the transfer from London to the colonial administration of full responsibility for the management of Indian Affairs (1860). She is currently working on a book, result of her doctoral dissertation, Territoire, Pouvoir et État : Les seigneurs autochtones de la vallée laurentienne. Her current research looks at land ownership among the Abenakis of Odanak before the creation of the Indian reserves.