Rachel Berger
Vice-Provost, Innovation in Teaching and Learning
Berger joined Concordia as an Assistant Professor in 2006, assuming the role of Associate Professor of History in 2012. She has also been a fellow of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute since 2006. She was the Director of the Individualized Graduate Studies Program (INDI) from 2018-2022. She took on the role of Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Development at the School of Graduate Studies in 2021. She currently serves as a co-chair of the STRIVE Task Force.
A historian of South Asia, Berger’s research has focused on the histories of health and the body, food cultures and economies, as well as reproductive politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and has been funded by SSHRC, FRQSC and the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine. She also studies queer kinship in Canada, with a focus on the public policy around Assistive Reproductive Technologies, and the lived experiences of queer parenting.
These interests were sparked as an undergraduate at Concordia where she completed her baccalaureate in History and South Asian studies before attending the University of Toronto and the University of Cambridge (Clare College) for graduate training.