Isabelle Bouchard

Isabelle Bouchard is a full professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of Quebec at 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 focuses 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 scholarly articles published in academic journals and collective works, such as Nouveaux regards en histoire seigneuriale au Québec (2016), Québécois et Autochtones. Histoire commune, histoires croisées, ou histoires parallèles ? (2023) and Family and Justice in the Archives. Historical Perspectives on Intimacy and the Law (2024). She is currently working on a book based on her doctoral thesis, provisionally titled Territoire, pouvoir et État : Les seigneurs autochtones de la vallée laurentienne, 1760-1860. Her current research focuses on individual land ownership and inheritance among the Abenaki of Odanak before the creation of reserves, as well as First Nations’ use of guardianship of minors, particularly French civil law and Indigenous legal traditions concerning the care and movement of children.