A graduate of the Université de Montréal and McGill, his research interests include French Canadian intellectual history and Canadian-American relations. He is the author Prejudice and Pride: Canadian Intellectuals Confront the United States, 1891-1945 (University of Toronto Press, 2011) and Thomas Chapais, historien (Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, forthcoming). He is working on a history of loyalism in French Canada and his article ‘Anti-Americanism and Anti-modernism in French Canadian Intellectual Discourse, 1891-1945’ will also be appearing in the Autumn 2017 issue of the London Journal of Canadian Studies.