Sonia Cancian

Sonia Cancian (born in 1965) is a Canadian historian, author, editor and professor with a special interest in immigration history, gender and women's studies, family history, history of emotions, personal narratives, and communication technologies. A certified translator (Quebec), she holds a PhD in Humanities (History, 2008) from Concordia University, Montreal, a MA in Italian Literature Studies from McGill University, Montreal, and two undergraduate degrees: a Bachelor of Arts in the Specialization of Translation (Concordia University) and a Bachelor of Arts in Italian Literature Studies (York University). From 2008 to 2010, she was a postdoctoral fellow where she developed and The Digitizing Immigrant Letters Project with Professor Donna Gabaccia at the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. In 2013, she served as Canadian Visiting Fellow in Canadian Studies at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada in Montreal. Between 2015 and 2017, she was Assistant Professor in the Colleges of Interdisciplinary Studies and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Zayed University in Dubai. In Berlin, Germany, Sonia Cancian was postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development's Center for the History of Emotions in 2018 and 2019. In 2022, she was appointed Honorary Virtual Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, School of Humanities, University of Western Australia, and in 2021-2023, she is Visiting Fellow and Scholar at McGill University's Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism while remaining an international member of the McGill Centre for Research on Montreal.