Simon-Pierre Lacasse

Simon-Pierre Lacasse is a historian and research professional specializing in Quebec society, minority histories, and questions of diversity, memory, and belonging. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Ottawa and is the author of Les Juifs de la Révolution tranquille, an award-nominated study of activism amongst the Jewish community in postwar Quebec. He teaches at McGill University and Concordia University and is a Senior Research Associate at Quebec English-Speaking Communities Research Network (QUESCREN). He previously worked as an senior analyst at Statistics Canada. 

• Immigration in Quebec and Canada (SCPA315/POLI316)
• Quebec to 1867 (HIST209)
• Quebec since Confederation (HIST210)
• History of Montreal (HIST307)
• Quebec in the Twentieth Century (HIST314)
• History and the Public (HIST306)
• Russia from 1694 to 1917 (HIST377)

Simon-Pierre Lacasse is Senior Research Associate at the Quebec English-Speaking Communities Research Network (QUESCREN), housed within the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia. 

Monograph

Lacasse, Simon-Pierre. Les Juifs de la Révolution tranquille : regards d’une minorité religieuse sur le Québec de 1945 à 1976. Ottawa : Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2022.

Book chapters and articles

Lacasse, Simon-Pierre. “Surveillance and Indifference: The Montreal Jewish Community Facing Adrien Arcand during the Postwar Period,” Canadian Jewish Studies/Études juives canadiennes, Vol 43, Fall 2025, pp. 148-152.

Lacasse, Simon-Pierre and Rannan Rein, “Jewish Support for Nationalist Movements in the Americas: A Comparative Re-Appraisal” in Promised Lands North and South: Jewish Argentina and Jewish Canada Compared, edited by David S. Koffman et David Sheinin, Brill Press, 2024.  

Simon-Pierre Lacasse, ‘“A Curse or a Blessing?”: Montreal Jews and the Politics of 1960s Quebec’, Canadian Historical Review103, no. 3 (1 September 2022): 359–83.

Lacasse, Simon-Pierre. “L'implantation des communautés hassidiques durant l'après-guerre” in Les Juifs hassidiques de Montréal, edited by Pierre Anctil and Ira Robinson. pp. 47-77. University of Montreal Press, 2019.  

Lacasse, Simon-Pierre. “À la croisée de la Révolution tranquille et du judaïsme orthodoxe: l'implantation de la communauté hassidique des Tasher au coeur du Québec francophone et catholique.” Social History/Histoire sociale, vol. 50, no. 102, 2017, pp. 399-422. 

Lacasse, Simon-Pierre. “Sionisme de gauche, agriculturalisme et immigration juive au Canada au      lendemain de la Grande Guerre.” Canadian Jewish Studies/Études juives canadiennes, vol. 24, 2016, pp. 38-59.