Ronald Rudin is both one of the leading historians of French Canada and a pioneer in the realm of historical documentary filmmaking. Dr. Rudin's work has been enormously influential inside Quebec, across Canada and internationally.

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RUDIN, Ronald –Department of History, Concordia University
Ronald Rudin is both one of the leading historians of French Canada and a pioneer in the realm of historical documentary filmmaking. His writing about the history of both Quebec and Acadie is astonishingly broad and covers topics from finance and the social history of banking to the history of English-speaking Quebeckers, the politics of historic commemoration and social memory, and the role of ideology in nationalist historiography. Dr. Rudin's work has been enormously influential inside Quebec, across Canada and internationally. The author of six major monographs and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters, Dr. Rudin is also an acclaimed historical documentary filmmaker. In addition to his research and research-creation activity, Dr. Rudin is the Academic Convenor for the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.