Paul-Étienne Rainville

Paul-Etienne Rainville completed his doctoral thesis in 2018 on the history of the struggle for human rights in Quebec from the post-war period to the Quiet Revolution (1945-1960). His research interests include the history of citizenship, the State, interethnic relations, colonialism and identity, social movements, and human rights. His work has been published in several journals (Canadian Historical Review, Histoire Social/Social History, Droits et libertés). Paul-Étienne is the recipient of prestigious prizes, including the Prize for the Best Article (French) from the Groupe d’histoire politique de la Société historique du Canada (2019) and the Political Book Prize from the Assemblé nationale du Québec (2019). He is a researcher in residence at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (CRIEM, 2019-2020) and specializes in Montreal studies. He is currently editing a volume on the history of Montreal identities for the induction of the Centre des mémoires montréalaises (MEM). In May 2020 he became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto (CRSH-FRQSC, 2020-2022) under the supervision of Sean Mills. He studies the debates surrounding the adoption of the first anti-discrimination laws in Quebec in the early 1960s.