Associate Scientific Director

Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research

Dr. Bélanger is the Associate Scientific Director of the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research, a unique consortium of 46 Canadian universities dedicated to researching the health needs of military personnel, Veterans and their families. She is co-editor in chief of the Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health (University of Toronto Press funded in 2015). She is also co-founder of the The New Directions in Foreign Policy, Military, and Security Studies series with McGill Queen’s University Press (MQUP, funded in 2016). She is the co-editor of War Memories: Commemoration and Writings of War in the English-speaking World (MQUP 2017 – in press);  “Beyond the line: Military and Veteran Health Research” (MQUP 2013); “A New Coalition for a Challenging Battlefield” (CDA Press 2012); “Shaping the Future” (CDA Press 2011) as well as of “Transforming traditions: the Leadership of Women in the Canadian Navy” (CDA Press 2010). She is also author of the monograph “Guerre, sacrifices et persécutions” (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2010). She co-chairs the CIMVHR annual Forums, the bi-annual conferences on War Memories (with Université de Rennes 2 and Paris VII), the annual conferences on Military ethics, and she partners with many other institutes to co-host workshops. She is a Board of Directors Member of the North-American chapter of the International Society for Military Ethics (ISME) and the Center for International and Defence Policy (CIDP).

She was inducted as a member of the College of young scholars of the Royal society of Canada in 2016. She is a Professor in the Department of French Language, Literature and Culture and the Chair of the Master's of Public Administration program at the Royal Military College of Canada where her research focuses on War Testimony, Soldier Identity and Moral Injuries. She specializes in Military Ethics and Just War Theories. She completed her PhD degree at the University of Toronto in 2003 and her MPA degree at RMC in 2013.

She serves in the Royal Canadian Navy as a reservist since 2004.