Marylin Bernard

Après un séjour de deux ans en Israël et après avoir complété une maîtrise en histoire portant sur les femmes juives de Québec, à l’Université Laval, Marylin Bernard est présentement doctorante en histoire orale, à l’Université Concordia. Sa thèse visera à établir une comparaison entre les mariages unissant Juifs et Canadiens français catholiques, au Québec, et les mariages entre Juifs et Français catholiques, en France. Marylin Bernard est également coordonnatrice des entrevues du groupe de travail portant sur les survivants de l’Holocauste, dans le cadre du projet « Histoires de vie des Montréalais déplacés par la guerre, le génocide et autres violations aux droits de la personne », mis en œuvre à l’Université Concordia et subventionné par les Alliances de recherche universités-communautés (ARUC).

Caroline Cormier

Caroline Cormier is a candidate at the University of Toronto for a Master of Arts in Geography. She holds an Honours B.A. from Queen’s University in Politics and Global Development Studies. During her time at Queen’s, Caroline had the opportunity to study in Guadalajara, Mexico at Tecnológico de Monterrey and to teach English as a Second Language in northern Ecuador. Over the years, she has also worked with various non-profit and non-governmental organizations. She has most recently become involved with, at both the campus and national level, SHOUT Canada (shoutcanada.org) and Stand Canada (standcanada.org). Cormier is also the founder and Executive Director of a Toronto-based student initiative called Education for Change (educationforchange.ca). Currently, her primary academic interests include diversity issues, urban conflicts, genocide studies and the politics of border disputes.

Jonathan Ross Grossman

Jonathan Ross Grossman is a Queen’s University student, currently working towards a medial degree in politics and history. He grew up in the small Jewish community of Kitchener Ontario, with his mother, father, and two brothers. Growing up, Grossman attended both the Kitchener-Waterloo Hebrew Day School and the Hamilton Hebrew Academy. Jonathan’s current academic interests include Jewish history, Middle Eastern history and politics, and an assortment of other histories and current events. Aside from school Jonathan enjoys playing sports such as basketball and soccer as well as coaching a local youth basketball team. As well, Jonathan’s next work will deal with the issue of Japanese aid of the Jewish refugees in China during the Holocaust. Jonathan’s future plans are attending grad school and furthering his knowledge and understanding in his academic interests.

Emily Lam

Emily Lam is a graduate of political science and history from the University of Ottawa. As an arts and culture journalist, Yiddishist and music enthusiast, Emily is the head researcher for the upcoming documentary film on Jewish music entitled The Wandering Muse. She currently resides in Montreal where she continues to conduct her field research on Montreal Jewish musicians while planning to pursue an MA in Jewish Studies.

Julie Spergel

Julie Spergel has recently completed her PhD in English Philology at the University of Regensburg in Germany. Her dissertation, “Canada’s ‘Second History’: The Fiction of Jewish Canadian Women Writers,” was awarded a summa cum laude. She has additionally earned a Master of Arts in Intercultural Anglophone Studies (2003) from the University of Bayreuth, also in Germany, and another in Interdisciplinary Studies: Interpretation and Values in the Humanities (2001) from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada. Her current academic interests include Canadian Jewish studies, food studies, post-colonial theory, multiculturalism, and women’s writing.

Yvonne Völkl

Yvonne Völkl est née en Autriche en 1981 et a étudié le français à l’Université de Graz. Dans le cadre de ses études, elle a participé à plusieurs échanges: à l’Université de Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle et à l’Université de Montréal. Actuellement, elle rédige sa thèse de doctorat sur la littérature juive migrante au Québec et collabore au développement du centre d’études canadiennes à l’Université de Graz.