Research Affiliate
Désirée Rochat is a historian of knowledge and a long-time community educator and memory worker. Her transdisciplinary approach bridges historical research, community archiving and popular pedagogy. Her research centres on knowledge activism and intellectual histories of Black Canadian, African American, and Black Caribbean communities in Quebec during the 20th century. Rochat also works to preserve community and activist archives. Her project “Black lives in/and archives” fosters an archival ecosystem dedicated to preserving and activating the archives of Black Montreal through collaborative activities. With historians Sean Mills and Eric Fillion she co-edited Statesman of the Piano: Jazz, Race, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper (McGill-Queen’s University Press-MQUP).
