Émeraude Lapointe-Provost

Research Assistant

Émeraude Lapointe-Provost is a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and a recipient of a doctoral scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She holds a multidisciplinary bachelor’s degree from Université Laval, a master’s degree in Religious Studies from UQAM, a certificate in Bengali language from the University of Delhi, and a diploma in Gender Studies from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi. Her research focuses on religious practices, gender relations, and the dynamics of violent extremism in South Asia and within the South Asian diaspora in Canada. Her doctoral project, grounded in a digital ethnography approach, examines the transnational circulation of discourses associated with Hindu nationalism between India and the Canadian diaspora. She is also a research assistant with the Canadian Practitioners Network for the Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence (CPN-PREV), and has worked as coordinator of the Centre for the Study of India, South Asia and its Diaspora (CERIAS) and at the Revue interdisciplinaire sur l’Asie du Sud (RIAS), as well as serving as managing editor for the journal PISTES. Having lived in India for nine years, she is fluent in French, English, and Hindi.