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Jean Bélisle retired from the Department of Art History and got his Professor Emeritus title in 2012.

Michel Bujold is hired as a security officer at the Security department in January 1987. Following the retirement of Rolland Barnabé in 1990, he became Acting Director of the Security department, becoming Director the following year. Bujold left Concordia in 1999.

Martin Duckworth is a film director, cinematographer and movie editor. He was a part-time instructor at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema between 1990 and 2012.

• In 2015, at the Prix du Québec, Duckworth won the Prix Albert-Tessier for an outstanding career in cinema.

Henry Beissel is a poet, playwright, essayist, translator, editor and distinguished professor emeritus. Beissel immigrated from Cologne, Germany to Canada in 1951 and became Canadian citizen in 1956. He obtained his M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1960 and first taught English literature in Germany and the West Indies before joining the English department of Sir George Williams University in 1966 as Assistant Professor. He would help develop the Creative Writing program in the early 1970’s before getting his tenure and becoming Full Professor in 1979. His teaching centered mostly on medieval and modern periods literature. Beissel retired from Concordia University in 1995. He is the author of 18 volumes of poetry, 10 plays and numerous essays and translations.

• From 1963 to 1969, Henry Beissel was the editor of the independent literary journal EDGE he founded in Edmonton.
• Beissel is the author of ‘Inuk and the Sun’, a play that premiered in Stratford in 1973. Translated in many languages, it has been performed around the world. The play would eventually become the opera ‘Inook’ in 1986, with music composed by Music department Professor Wolfgang Rottenberg. Excerpts of the piece would later be performed at the Inukshuk: A Dialogue among Cultures event, held at Concordia in June 1999.
• Beissel was the chair of the Irving Layton for Creative Writing awards committee in 1992.
• Beissel edited ‘Raging Like a Fire’, a Vehicle Press ‘Festschrift’ publication celebrating Irving Layton’s 80th birthday, in 1993.
• In 1994, Beissel was awarded a literary prize in the memory of Walter Bauer in recognition for his services to Bauer’s work and for his own literary oeuvre. The award was presented in Merseburg, Germany.
• Beissel was awarded the First Prize in Poetry for ‘The Jade Canoe’ by the Surrey International Writer’s Conference, in 2006.
• In 2008, he received the Naji Naaman Literary Prize for ‘Where Shall the Birds Fly?’. He also became an honorary member of the Maison Naaman pour la Culture in Beirut, Lebanon.

Maïr Verthuy started her teaching career at Concordia University as a Sessional Lecturer in French at Sir George Williams University in 1966, becoming Assistant Professor in 1969. After the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University in 1974, she worked with other feminist scholars on the establishment of a college dedicated to Women’s Studies. She became the first principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at its opening in 1978. Verthuy remained an Associate Professor at the department of Études françaises until being granted the rank of Professor in 1992. She would be getting the title of Distinguished Professor Emerita, in 2004 after announcing her retirement in 2003. She’s the author of many books and articles and presented at many colloquia around the world. Her domains of expertise are women’s rights and French literature.

• Maïr Verthuy chaired Concordia’s Arts Faculty Council Committee on Experimentation and Innovation in Higher Education (or AFC Education Committee) in 1974.
• Verthuy was a Democratic Alliance candidate in the St. Louis riding during the Quebec general election of 1976 (becoming Maïr Williams-Verthuy for the occasion as women running at the time had to use their maiden name tacked to their married names).
• In 1978, Verthuy launched Les Cahiers de la femme/Canadian Women’s Studies of which she was an editor.
• Verthuy gave the opening remarks at the Terre des Femmes ’79, a meeting of women’s groups from the Island of Montreal organized by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Loyola’s Campus Centre in March 1979.
• On May 4, 1979, Maïr Verthuy was honoured at Salon de la femme for her extraordinary contribution to the status of Women in the province of Quebec especially in the field of education.
• Maïr Verthuy was the chief organizer of the International Conference on Research and Teaching Related to Women, sponsored by the Simone the Beauvoir Institute and held July 26 to August 4, 1982. The conference attracted 342 participants from 82 different countries.
• Maïr Verthuy received the John O’Brien Tenth Anniversary Distinguished Teaching Award in 1985.
• A Maïr Verthuy Scholarship was established in 1986. Its first recipient was Kathy Silver.
• Verthuy was one of the founders of the Centre de recherche et d’enseignement sur la francophonie et les femmes (CREFF) in 1988. Among other things, the centre aimed at promoting local research on women in francophone countries.
• In September 1995, she represented Canada at the United Nations World Conference on Women held in Beijing.
• The YMCA selected Verthuy as the recipient for the 1997 Women of Distinction Award for the Advancement of Women.
• The three-day conference Les Femmes de lettres et le français hors frontière held at Concordia in May 15 to 17, 1998 was held in honour of Maïr Verthuy.
• On the recommendation of Quebec’s Minister of Education, Verthuy was made Chevalière, Ordre des Palmes Académiques by decree of the prime minister of France in recognition of her long commitment to teaching and research in French language and culture in 2002.
• Verthuy was granted a Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case on November 7, 2008.
• She was named to the Order of Canada by the Governor General in 2012.
• Verthuy was the subject of the 2014 movie Autour de Maïr, directed by Hejer Charf.
• She was inducted in the Ordre national du Québec, becoming a Chevalière in 2019.

Maurice Gagnon était un professeur et historien de l’art. Il a entre autres étudié à l’Université de Paris et à l’École du Louvre. Il a enseigné à l’École du meuble ainsi qu’à l’Université de Montréal. Il est notamment l’auteur de Peinture moderne (1940) et de Sur l’état de la peinture canadienne (1945). Maurice Gagnon est décédé dans un accident d’auto à Montréal en 1956.

Alphonso (Alfie) Theodore Roberts was born in St. Vincent and the Grenadines on September 18, 1937. He attended St. George’s Anglican School and St. Vincent Boy’s Grammar School. Roberts was awarded a scholarship to study at Queen’s Royal College in Trinidad and Tobago where he was selected to play cricket internationally for the West Indies cricket team. He later stopped playing cricket as his interests in politics and education grew over sports. He worked as a civil servant in St. Lucia between the years 1958 and 1962 and moved to Canada at the age of 23 to study at Sir George Williams University in Montreal (Quebec), where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Political Sciences. He later obtained a graduate diploma in Public Administration from Carleton University.

Roberts was involved in several community organizations in Montreal. Significantly, he was a founding member of the St. Vincent and Grenadines Association of Montreal. He also helped establish the International Caribbean Service Bureau and was a member of the Emancipation 150 Committee, which organized the Emancipation 150 Conference. After working for 20 years at the administration department of SIDBEC, a steelworks company in Montreal, Roberts decided to return to his studies and registered at Dawson College as a full-time mature student in the Political Science program.

Roberts was a political activist. Along with contemporaries like Franklyn Harvey and Rosie Douglas, Roberts organized conferences and events that supported several major political movements in the Caribbean. These events also brought renowned Caribbean thinkers and writers - including C.L.R. James and George Lamming - to Montreal.

During the independence of St. Vincent 1979, Roberts submitted a proposal to the government highlighting the importance of adding the smaller islands to the country’s name. His proposal was accepted by the government, renaming the country St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Alfie Roberts was Married to Patricia Cambridge with whom he had a daughter and two sons. He died in Montreal on July 24, 1996.

Patricia Cambridge was born on November 18, 1939, in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. She migrated to Canada in the 60s and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from Concordia University and a master’s degree in Urban Planning from McGill. Cambridge was involved in several community organizations and for several years she was the coordinator of the St. Vincent and Grenadines Association of Montreal’s annual Pageant and Dance. She was also involved with Project Genesis, a community organization that assists individuals affected by social inequalities. Cambridge worked as an Urban Planner for the Quebec Human Rights Commission, the City of Châteauguay, and the government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. She also worked as a freelance for the Afro-Canada Citizens Enhancement Society and the Black Community Council of Quebec.

Patricia Cambridge and Alfie Roberts had a daughter and two sons.

Philip Szporer is a filmmaker, journalist and part-time instructor at the Department of Contemporary Dance and the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability. He was a contributor to the Concordia's Thursday Report in 1983-1984.

• In 1999, Szporer was awarded the Pew Fellowship (National Dance/Media Project) at the University of California.
• He served as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts from 2000 to 2016.
• Szporer co-founded the Montreal-based award-winning media arts production company Mouvement Perpétuel in 2001.
• In 2010, Szporer won the Jacqueline Lemieux Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts, for his 30-year involvement in the dance community.
• In 2018, he co-founded Dance + Words, a project aiming to facilitate conversations surrounding cultural discourse.

Leah Sherman was born in Montreal in 1925 and died on September 2, 2015. She graduated from Baron Byng High School in 1942. After completing her graduate studies at New York University, she joined Sir George Williams University in 1950 to teach part-time in the Faculty of Arts and became assistant professor in 1960. She was promoted to associate professor in 1965 and to full professor in 1969. Professor Sherman, along with Douglass Clarke and Alfred Pinsky, helped to found the Department of Fine Arts at Sir George Williams University which in 1974, became the Faculty of Fine Arts of Concordia University. With Alfred Pinsky and Stanley Horner, she conceptualized and implemented the original Fine Arts curriculum. She provided leadership in the development and implementation of the BFA in Art Education (1965), the MA in Art Education (one of the first two graduate programmes offered at SGWU), the PhD in Art Education (1967) and the Diploma in Art Education for Certification (1969). She obtained the first authorization to certify teachers for Québec schools for SGWU in 1969. Professor Sherman was the first director of graduate programs in Art Education. She was assistant Chair in the Department of Fine Arts in 1973-1974 and Director of the Visual Arts Division in 1975-1976.

Professor Sherman has served on many University Task Forces and committees. In recognition of her expertise in children’s artistic development, she has been a member of the Centre for Research in Human Development since 1981.

Her work in the history of Québec art education, particularly the work and legacy of Anne Savage, has provided an important source of archival information for teachers and researchers. She collaborated with Suzanne Lemerise of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) on joint histories of art education in Quebec from English and French perspectives. She retired from Concordia University in 1994.

Christine Hope Allen, known as Sister Mary Prudence Allen, R.S.M., was born July 21, 1940 in Oneida, New York. Her father was Henry Grosvernor Allen (d. 1997) and her mother was Mildred Beatrice Gorman (d. 2007). Her family was descended from the Oneida Community, a utopian religious community of the nineteenth century. Married in 1965, she has two sons. In May 1972, her marriage was ended by physical separation, religious annulment and divorce subsequently followed. In 1983 she became a Roman Catholic nun with the Religious Sisters of Mercy. (Her sister, Elizabeth Bethany Allen joined the same community, and is called Sister Lydia Allen, R.S.M.) In 1967 Sister Prudence received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School in California. She began to teach philosophy at Sir George Williams University in 1969 and became full-time assistant professor in 1972. In 1974, Sir George Williams University merged with Loyola College to form Concordia University. Sister Prudence Allen was promoted to associate professor in 1977. She became full professor in 1993. She retired and was named professor emerita in 1996. She then moved to Denver, Colorado where she was full professor and held the Archbishop Charles J. Chaput OFM, cap Chair of Philosophy at the St. John Vianney Theological Seminary. She has been reassigned to Lancaster University Chaplaincy, Lancaster, UK, in November 2013. In 2014, she was appointed to the International Theological Commission by Pope Francis for five years (2014-2019).

At Concordia, Sister Prudence Allen helped develop the interdisciplinary pedagogical basis for women’s studies and helped found the Working Women’s Association for faculty and staff. She co-coordinated the committee that established a women’s college, the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. She was also involved with the interdisciplinary Lonergan University College, serving as its principal from 1992-1995.

Her book The Concept of Woman (Volume I): The Aristotelian Revolution (750 BC- 1250 AD) was published in 1985. A revised edition appeared in 1997. Volume II, The Concept of Woman: The Early Humanist Revolution (1250-1500) was published in 2002 and Volume III, The Concept of Women: The Search for the Communion of Persons (1500-2015) was published in 2016. She is also the author of numerous articles, and has lectured widely.

François-Marc Gagnon was an affiliate professor on the Department of Art History. Son of famous art critic Maurice Gagnon, he was born in Paris but eventually moved to Montreal with his family. He studied theology with the Dominicans in Ottawa from 1956 to 1962 but Gagnon would go back to France in 1968 to do his doctorate on Jean Dubuffet at Paris Sorbonne. Gagnon had been hired by the Département de l’histoire de l’art of Université de Montréal in 1966 and he would teach there until retiring and getting a professor emeritus honour in 2000. He would however quickly get back to work, founding the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University in 2001, after a substantial gift was made by the financial analyst and art collector. Gagnon is well known for his presence at Télé-Université and Canal Savoir but also for the many conferences, books and exhibition catalogues, scholarly articles he took part in. He passed away on March 28, 2019.

• Gagnon’s first publication was his doctorate thesis, Jean Dubuffet, aux sources de la figuration humaines, published by the Presses de l’université de Montréal in 1970.
• His 1975 book La Conversion par l’image, Un aspect de la mission des Jésuites auprès des Indiens du Canada au XVIIe siècle won the Prix Saint-Marie en Histoire, given by the Government of Ontario.
• Gagnon was the recipient of the Governor-General’s Award for his book on Paul-Émile Borduas in 1978.
• In 1987, Gagnon became a member of the Royal Society of Canada.
• Gagnon received an honorary degree from Concordia University, in June 1992.
• Gagnon was named to the Order of Canada in 1999.
• On March 6 2001, The new Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art welcomed Gagnon as his first Chair. Gagnon gave a lecture on Cornelius Krieghoff for the occasion, at the Faculty Club.
• Gagnon was honoured by the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) with the 2007 Prix André-Laurendeau, in recognition for his exceptional contributions made to research.
• Gagnon was awarded the 2010 Prix Gérard-Morisset as part of the Prix du Québec for his significant contribution to the preservation of the province's cultural heritage.
• The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas book has won its Concordia editor the 2013 Canada Prize in Humanities, given by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
• In 2015, Gagnon was inducted into the Order of Quebec.

Les Lawton is a former interim director of the department of Recreation and Athletics. He began his career at Concordia in 1982 as the assistant coach of Concordia’s women hockey team, becoming head coach the following year. Lawton had previously coached the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Maroons hockey program before moving on to guide Loyola High School. In the fall of 2000, he coached Concordia’s newly formed golf team. He would ne named Interim Director of Recreation and Athletics department in 2001, a position he kept until he returned to coaching in 2003. Health issues forced him to step down from being a Stingers coach in 2015 but he has since redirected his energy to fundraising.

• In 1994, Lawton is chosen to coach Canada’s gold-medal national women’s hockey team. He would lead the team to a gold medal at that year’s World Championship.
• Lawton received a Merit Award from the Concordia Council on Student Life (CCSL) in 1998 for his contribution in building women’s hockey ‘from a social pursuit to a serious sport’.
• In 1999, Lawton received an Athletic Award for his 400th coaching victory, on January 17, 1998. By 2003, he would have won his 500th game, a historic milestone in women’s college hockey.
• Lawton is named top women’s university hockey coach in the country by the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) in February 2000 at the all-Canadian banquet held at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
• Lawton served as a consultant to the Italian women’s national hockey team in 2003. He helped them prepare for the B Group World Championships and mentored the Italian coaching staff.
• In 2005, Lawton was the director of the Concordia Junior Stingers Summer Sports Program, a camp providing an opportunity to local children age seven to 16 to learn, participate and discover the passion for sport.
• In 2011, Lawton coached Canada’s women’s team at the Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey.
• Les Lawton was inducted in Concordia’s Sports Hall of Fame as a builder in 2022.

Magnus Isacsson, a Swedish-Canadian filmmaker, was born in Sweden in 1948 and moved to Canada in 1970. He studied political science at the University of Stockholm in Sweden and later in Montreal, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the Université de Montreal in 1973. He also studied history and cinema at McGill University and took classes at Concordia University in Montreal, though he did not receive a degree from either institution. He was married to Jocelyne Clarke, documentary filmmaker and founder of Productions Pléiades. They had two children, Anna and Béthièle.

Early during his career, Isacsson worked as a radio producer for the Swedish Broadcasting and the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC). From 1980 to 1986 he was a producer for CBC’s English and French-language networks and worked as a producer for several programs, including Le Point, The Fifth State, and Contrechamps. Isacsson became an independent filmmaker in 1986.

With a documentary filmmaking career of over 25 years, Isacsson produced, wrote and directed several documentaries about critical social and political issues. During his career, he won several awards. Notably, he was the recipient of the Golden Sheaf Award for Uranium in 1991, and his film Power won best documentary at both the Paris International Environmental Film Festival in 1997 and at the Lausanne festival in 1999. Pressure Point (1999) received the Quebec Film Critics award for Best Documentary in 2000.

Magnus Isacsson was awarded the 2004 Prix Lumières from the Quebec Directors’ Association, and in 2012, Isacsson was named member Emeritus of the association. He was also a member of the Documentary Association of Canada, the Association des Réalisateurs et Réalisatrices du Québec (ARRQ), the Société des auteurs de radio, télévision et cinéma (Sartec), and was a former vice-president of the Observatoire du documentaire,

Isacsson was also an educator and throughout his career taught several courses and workshops about documentary film production. He taught at Concordia University in Montreal, Whitman College, the Quebec film school and at University of Montreal, among others. He also taught audiovisual production in South Africa and Zimbabwe, and collaborated in the production of teaching material Produire en Vidéo Légère volumes 1, 2 and 3.

His last film, Granny Power (2014), was completed and released posthumously by his wife Jocelyne Clarke.

Magnus Isacsson died in August 2012.