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Full Professor
Faculty of Arts
Classics and Religious Studies

Contact information:

Office: (613) 562-5800 X1176
E-mail: eanderso@uottawa.ca
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Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

• Contemporary Roman Catholicism
• The papacy of Pope Francis I
• The history of Catholicism in Canada
• Indigenous peoples and the ongoing impact of residential schools
• First Nations' relationship with the Catholic Church (historically and contemporaneously)
• Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
• Missionaries and Indigenous peoples in seventeenth-century Canada
• Traditional Indigenous spiritualities
• Indigenous Catholicism
• Indigenous pilgrimages in Canada
• The role of Saint Anne in Indigenous Catholicism
• Popular and "lived" religion
• Catholic veneration of the Virgin Mary and of saints
• Relics and miracles
• The canonization process in the Catholic Church
• Christian martyrdom
• Jean de Brébeuf and the cult of the North American Martyrs
• Catholic shrines and pilgrimages
• Marian apparitions (visions of the Virgin Mary)
• Vatican II and the Quiet Revolution in Quebec
• Multiculturalism and religion in contemporary Canada

Area(s) of expertise:

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• 20th century
• Aboriginal history
• Aboriginal Studies
• Canadian history
• Canadian studies
• Classics and religious studies
• Cultural history
• European history
• French-Canadian culture
• History of art
• History of religious communities
• Indigenous Conceptions
• Medieval studies
• New France
• North America
• Postcolonial studies
• Religion
• uOttawa

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English and French

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Visiting professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Sociology

Contact information:

E-mail: dlerou2@uottawa.ca
Website

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

Since 2015, Dr. Leroux has been studying the changing dynamics of white, French-descendant identities in the 21st century, particularly as it pertains to increasing claims to "Indigenous" identities among this group. His book, Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity, was selected as one of the ten most influential books published by the University of Manitoba Press in the past decade. His research continues to push the boundaries in the study of white identities, and as such, he is widely sought after as a public speaker on matters related to contemporary forms of settler colonialism.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Canadian politics
• Canadian studies
• Colonization
• French-Canadian culture
• Nationalism
• New France
• Race
• Racism

Language preference:

English and French