Prior to his arrival at Concordia, Gagné taught from 2005-2008 at the Joint Department of Religious Studies at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He has a B.Th. (2001) and Master of Arts (2003) from l'Université de Montréal, and a conjoint Ph.D. from l'Université catholique de Louvain and l'Université de Montréal (2008).[1] Gagné is a Digital Fellow of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies [2] and research associate with the Centre d'expertise de formation sur les intégrismes religieux et la radicalisation [3] In 2017, he was Directeur d'études invité at l'École pratique des hautes études, La Sorbonne, in Paris [4]