Sonia Cancian

Sonia Cancian, MA, PhD is a historian at McGill University's Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal and Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at McGill's Faculty of Law. She has written extensively about narratives and migration, and particularly correspondence written in the 20th century migration of Italians. Her work includes the books, Families, Lovers, and their Letters: Italian Postwar Migration to Canada (University of Manitoba Press, 2010), Migrant Letters: Emotional Language, Mobile Identities, and Writing Practices in Historical Perspective, edited by Cancian and M. Borges (Routledge, 2018), Emotional Landscapes: Love, Gender, and Migration, edited by Cancian, M. Borges, and L. Reeder (University of Illinois Press, 2021), and the transnational love letter collection, With Your Words in My Hands: The Letters of Antonietta Petris and Loris Palma (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021). Dr. Cancian has led the Digitizing Immigrant Letters Project (with Donna Gabaccia) at the University of Minnesota's Immigration History Research Center Archives.