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Advisory board

Dana Cotnareanu

Director of CIVIX-Québec and French programming - CIVIX

Dana Cotnareanu is the Director of CIVIX-Québec and French programming at CIVIX, an organization that helps build the skills and habits of active and informed citizenship among youth. Her recent projects focus on digital news literacy, as well as resources that support educators in bringing political discussions to the classroom.
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Anik De St-Hilaire

Chief Academic Officer at eConcordia

Anik de St-Hilaire is the Chief Academic Officer at eConcordia where she works closely with the various Concordia entities to define the vision for online courses. She joined the team in 2015 as Vice President Academic Development, and since 2020 has been appointed to head the academic team to oversee the production of the online courses. She also sits on Concordia Advisory Committee on Teaching and Learning.
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Sophie Marcotte

Concordia University, Études françaises

Sophie Marcotte is a full professor in the Département d’études françaises at Concordia University, where she has taught Quebec literature since 2003. She has co-directed FIGURA, Centre de recherche sur les théories et les pratiques de l’imaginaire (FRQSC), and directed Concordia’s antenna of Laboratoire NT2 (CFI). She has also been involved in the Littérature québécoise mobile partnership (SSHRC, PDG and PG). In recent years, her research has focused on representations of the digital in contemporary literature, as well as on digital cultures and literary arts (SSHRC).
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Megan Webster

Expertise by Design

Dr. Webster’s research and practice focuses on improving instruction at scale. Dr. Webster trains professional development leaders, instructional coaches, and school and district administrators with the aim of making accomplished teaching the norm.
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Non-voting members

Diane Querrien

Département d'études françaises, Concordia University

Dr. Querrien’s research centers on the practices and initiatives used by schools to promote allophone students’ French language skills, as well as on how French as a second language is taught in higher education. 
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David Waddington

Department of Education, Concordia

Dr. Waddington’s research focuses on teacher free speech, video games and citizenship, philosophical questions in science and technology education, and the history and philosophy of progressive education.
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Zeina Ismail-Allouche

Research Associate, CSLP Research Coordinator, Concordia University

Dr. Ismail-Allouche is an activist, autoethnographer, performer, and storyteller with over 20 years of experience in designing, implementing and monitoring strategic, multidisciplinary, and participatory reform plans in support of preventing violence against children with a special focus on gender-based violence and preventing forced separation. 
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Role & responsibilities of the Advisory board

  1. The general purpose of the Advisory board is to provide general guidance on the CSLP’s activities and operations. 
  2. The Advisory board will meet once a year, for 90 minutes, with all documents/materials pre-supplied. 
  3. The minutes of all Advisory board meetings will be submitted to the OVPRII at the time of the annual report.
  4. The Advisory board requirements/suggestions for research units at the university can be found on page 9 of the Procedures for Research Units and Infrastructure Platforms.


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