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Pnina Cohen Gagnon was born in Haifa, Israël where she attended the Leo Beck School. She studied physiotherapy at Asaf Harofè Hospital near Tel-Aviv and art in Montreal, Canada at École des Beaux-arts de Montréal, where she graduated in 1966. Her first solo exhibition was in 1967 at Galerie Le Gobelet in Montreal. In 1972 Gagnon published her first artist book 'Jukim and various other insects' in conjunction with her solo exhibition at the Rothchild House in Haifa, Israel. The same year she participated in the group exhibition 'On the human body/Du corps humain' at the Sir George Williams Gallery. In 1973 she designed the stage for the play 'Trois prétendants, un mari' by Guillaume Oyono M’Bia at the Université de Montréal auditorium. Gagnon’s work has been collected by several Canadian and Israeli public institutions. As of 2022, she has produced over 30 solo exhibitions and participated in as many group exhibitions. Her mediums include painting, drawing, sculpture, video, installation, and writing on themes related to the natural world and natural phenomena.

• Pnina Gagnon was awarded the Shtrook Award in 1995
• Gagnon has been a member of the Royal Canadian Society since 2003

Tom Gibson was an artist and an associate professor at the Studio Arts department of Concordia University. Born in Edinburgh, he spent the beginning of his adult life travelling before moving to Montreal in the mid-1970s. His first artistic practice was painting but by the mid-60s, he had already made photography his main media. Gibson started teaching photography at Concordia University in 1976. He created the first photography MFA program at the Faculty of Fine Arts - the first of this kind in Canada. In 1982, the Gallery II at the Sir George Williams Art Galleries presented the show ‘Tom Gibson: Selected Photographs 1965-1980’. In 1985, he was Director of Graduate Studio Arts at Concordia University. He sat on the Council of the Faculty of Fine Arts from 1985-1986 to 1988-1989. Gibson was a member of the Board of Graduate Studies in 1986-1987 as a representative of the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 1993, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP) organized a retrospective exhibition and catalogue of his work titled ‘Tom Gibson: False Evidence Appearing Real’ at the Saydie Bronfman Centre. Gibson retired from Concordia in 1996. In April 2006, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery presented the show ‘Collection 2: Sur le vif’, featuring works by Tom Gibson and Sam Tata. The McClure Gallery in Montreal presented his last exhibition ‘Three Montreal Photographer’ in May 2021. Tom Gibson passed away on June 1, 2021. His works remain presented in many collections including those of the National Gallery of Canada, the International Museum of Photography in Rochester, New York, and the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO).

• Tom Gibson received his first Canada Council of Arts award in 1968 to photograph in Mexico.
• Gibson was also instrumental in the creation of the undergraduate program in photography, along with Gabor Szilasi, Katherine Tweedie and Tim Clark in 1982-1983.

Mel Hoppenheim was the founder, President and CEO of the Cité du Cinéma Mel. Hoppenheim attended the evening courses at Sir George Williams University. In 1996, he headed the Cinema Advisory Board, a group that aimed to address the long-term issues the cinema department was facing at the time. During the launch of the Campaign for a New Millennium on October 29, 1997, Hoppenheim pledged $1 million on his and his wife’s behalf to create the School of Cinema. Following the gift, the Department of cinema was re-named the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in December 1997. The Faculty of Fine Arts awarded Hoppenheim an honorary doctorate at its Spring 2009 Convocation ceremony. He passed away on July 27, 2022.

• Panavision (now Panavision Canada), a company Hoppenheim founded in 1965 as a movie equipment rental service, won an Oscar in 1982, the first-ever award for technical achievement.
• Since 1985, the annual Year-End Screenings of the cinema department is awarding the Mel Hoppenheim Award to the outstanding performance in film production to a student.
• Hoppenheim was awarded an Award of Distinction from the Faculty of Fine Arts at their inaugural presentation ceremony, held on May 7, 2002.
• In 2005, Hoppenheim was the special guest of the first edition of the Art Matters festival. He lead a panel of discussion on the future of Quebec cinema. He was presented with an Achievement Award (Builders Category) at the same event.
• Mel Hoppenheim was presented the Motion Picture International Business Leader of the Year Award at the Consulate General of Canada in Los Angeles, in 2006.
• Hoppenheim was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2015.

Frank Guadagni was an associate professor of mathematics, physics and engineering. He taught at Loyola College from 1942 to 1964. Guadagni graduated from McGill university in 1937 in metallurgical engineering with highest honours and was awarded the Governor-General’s medal. After five years working in the industry, Guadagni joined Loyola’s faculty in 1942 and contributed to the establishment of the Engineering faculty. Until 1959, he was the sole Engineering professor taught all the Chemistry classes from 1942 to 1953. Frank Guadagni passed away in 1964.

• In March of 1962, Guadagni attended the Canadian Conference on Education as a delegate from the National Conference of Universities and Colleges, along with the Legal Advisor (Slattery), the Rector and the Dean of that time.
• The Guadagni Lounge was given its name in honour of professor Guadagni shortly after his passing.

William Buxton was a professor at the department of Communication studies. He first graduated from the University of Alberta in 1969, before completing his MA in Philosophy at Oxford University and a MSc in Politics at London University. Buxton then obtained his doctorate from the Die Freie Universitat Berlin in 1980 and his post-doctorate from Harvard University the following year. Buxton joined Concordia’s Communication Studies department in 1990 and was promoted to full professor on June 1, 1992. He became a Fellow of the School of Community and Public Affairs and Lonergan University College shortly after. Buxton retired from Concordia University in 2017. He’s the author of more than 50 books, articles and papers.

• While studying at the University of Alberta, Buxton Obtained the MacEachran Gold Medal in Psychology.
• Buxton organized the Harold Innis and Intellectual Practice for the New Century: Interdisciplinary and Critical Studies conference held at Concordia in October 1994.
• Buxton was scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Archive Centre, a division of Rockefeller University in the summer of 2004 to work on his research on the educational radio projects of the Rockefeller Foundation/General Education Board.
• In 2008, Buxton was awarded a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant for his work ‘Civilizing Canada, Enacting Space, Binding Time: The Possibilist Practice of Harold Adams Innis 1920-1952’.
• William Buxton was elected Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Committee for Quebec in 2008.

Rose Sheinin (née Shuber) was born on May 18, 1930 in Toronto. She married Joseph Sheinin, a professional engineer, in 1951 and they had three children, David, Lisa and Rachel. She died in Toronto on March 20, 2009. She was educated at Harbord Collegiate Institute. She attended the University of Toronto, where she received an Honours BA in Science in 1951, an MA in Biochemistry in 1953 and a PhD in Biochemistry in 1956.

She was a respected scientist (teaching and research), feminist and university administrator. She taught at the University of Toronto for 25 years in the Departments of Microbiology, Medical Biophysics, and in Microbiology and Parasitology. She was the Chair of Microbiology and Parasitology 1975-1981 and became Vice-Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto, 1984-1989. In 1989, she moved to Montreal when she was appointed Professor in the Department of Biology and Vice-Rector, Academic at Concordia University.

A distinguished teacher in physiology and biochemistry, she was also an internationally respected researcher, a specialist in cancer research and DNA replication. For more than 30 years the Medical Research Council of Canada and the national Cancer Institute of Canada funded her research. She had more than one hundred scholarly publications in refereed journals. In addition to her other research work, Rose Sheinin was interested in the history of women in medicine and Canadian women scientists and in the development of science policy in Canada in relation to women. In addition to her many research awards and prizes, Dr. Sheinin received honorary degrees from Mount Saint Vincent University in 1985 and Acadia University in 1987. She was also the recipient of the Government of Canada’s Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal in 1978 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1981.

During her tenure as Vice-Rector Academic at Concordia, Rose Sheinin played a major role in the establishment of comprehensive academic planning. She championed and oversaw the establishment of the School of Graduate Studies in June 1992, improved research infrastructure to provide better support for researchers and promoted the active participation and advancement of women and other minorities in all aspects of the Concordia community.

Her term was also marked with a period of serious financial compression as well as the trauma of the Fabrikant Affair in which four Concordia faculty members were murdered in August 1992 by engineering professor Valery Fabrikant.

Dr. Sheinin left her administrative position in June 1994 and continued teaching biology at Concordia until she retired in 2000. She eventually returned to Toronto, where she remained active in women’s equality issues and Yiddish culture.

Samuel Abraham Rochlin was born in Cape Town July 9, 1904 to Isaac Gershon Rochlin and Dora Rochlin (nee Daniller). His parents moved from Rostov on Don in South Russia to Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1896. They later moved to Cape Town where Samuel and his brothers Harry and Israel were born.

Rochlin, a historian, archivist, and researcher, witnessed the development of socialist and labour movements and the formation of the Communist Party of South Africa. Rochlin was a member of the Young Communist League in South Africa in the 1920s. Later he was involved in the Zionist movement, working for the Zionist Federation in Johannesburg and on the Zionist Record in the 1930s. He was also the first archivist of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), where he worked from 1947 to 1961. Rochlin is renowned for his research into South Africa’s Jewish settlers and was the chief research specialist of the South African Jewish Historical Society. Rochlin died November 14, 1961. In 1986 the SAJBD archives was renamed the S.A. Rochlin Archives in his honour.

Viviane Namaste has a BA from Carleton University, an MA in Sociology from York University and a doctoral degree from Université du Québec à Montréal in Semiotics and Linguistics. She began teaching at Simone de Beauvoir Institute in July 2002 and was Interim Principal from August 2006-May 2008 and Acting Principal from September-December 2018. Namaste was Research Chair in HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health from June 2008-May 2018. In 2016, Namaste was awarded an FAS Curriculum Innovation Fund grant to develop new interdisciplinary teaching for Humanities students. She is the founder of the Quebec Health Action, which began in the 1990s to improve health for Montreal’s transvestite and transsexual community. She was the principal investigator of Projet Polyvalence, which ran from 2004 to 2007, a community-based action research project seeking to contribute to HIV/AIDS and STD prevention of people with bisexual practices. The project resulted in a book “HIV Education and Bisexual Realities” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012).

• Namaste received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence.  Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science in April 2015.
• She also received the Prix Honoris of the Conseil Québécois des Gais et des Lesbiennes in October 2013.
• Namaste was inducted in the Provost’s Circle of Distinction of Concordia University, in June 2012
• On October 25, 2010, she received the Grand prix du Conseil Québécois des Gais et des Lesbiennes.
• Namaste was the recipient of the Award for Action on HIV/AIDS 2009 handed by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch, on June 12, 2009.

Namaste is the author of three books about transsexuality:

• Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000) for which she won the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center in 2001
• Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism (Toronto : Women’s Press/Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2005)
• C'était du spectacle! L'histoire des artistes transsexuelles à Montréal, 1955-1985 (Montréal : McGill Queen’s University Press, 2005)

Sur Rodney (Sur) is a Canadian visual artist and multimedia performance artist, who is also known for his work as an archivist, writer and curator, but above all for his impact on the awareness about AIDS/ HIV and the Aids crisis in the arts scene.

Born as Rodney Adams in Montreal on December 28, 1954, he is the second child of photographer Desmond Rupert Adams and Jean Gertrude Adams, born Gordon. Sur Rodney grew up in the Jewish neighborhood of Mount Royal in Montreal, but his family was part of Montreal’s black community and Union United Church. In 1975, he officially changed his name from Rodney Adams to Sur Rodney (Sur), referring to himself as a surrealist. He was married to Gracie Mansion (then known as Joanne Mayhew Young) until 1989. Sur was married to Geoffrey Hendricks from 1995 until Hendrick’s death on May 12th, 2018.

From 1973 to 1975, Sur Rodney (Sur) studied at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design. After having graduated, he moved to the East Village in New York City in the summer of 1976. At the time, Sur Rodney was working as a visual artist, mostly known through video projects. In the early 1980s, Sur became a member of the Blackheart Collective, a group of gay black poets, writer and multi-media performance artists, which allowed him to be included in various anthologies. At the same time, Sur Rodney (Sur) was program coordinator of The Sur Rodney (Sur) Show (1980) and the All New Sur Rodney (Sur) Show (1981), hosted on Manhattan Cable Television and featuring many young artists of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Also in 1981, Sur Rodney (Sur) and Tessie Chua co-produced the video Scary Truth About Cockroaches and Landlords. In 1982, Sur Rodney (Sur) “abandons his practice as a visual and performing artist to form a partnership with Gracie Mansion as co-director of the Gracie Mansion Gallery” in the Manhattan East Village. Later, Sur acted for two years as program director of Kenkeleba House, an African American cultural institution in Manhattan.

With the spreading of the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980s, Sur’s main occupation became the support of friends living with HIV/AIDS and the organization and preservation of their estates. From 1989 to 1994, he worked as an independent archivist for artists living with HIV/AIDS. He archived, among others, the estates of Swiss artist Andreas Senser, of photographer Timothy Greathouse, and of photographer Bern Boyle. In 1994, together with Geoffrey Hendricks and Frank Moore, Sur helped set up the Visual AIDS Archive Project to document the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and to secure the management of their estates. Sur also served on the Visual AIDS' Board of Directors for over ten years and worked on several curatorial projects and exhibitions relating to art and AIDS.

In the mid-1990s, Sur Rodney re-entered the art scene, working with Fluxus artist Geoffrey Hendricks on performances and other projects.

In 2012, Sur Rodney (Sur) received the Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards (VAVA Voom). In 2016, Sur was awarded the first ever Candy Darling Award during the Acker Awards for his community engagement as a community activist.

Elizabeth Morey’s first employment at Concordia was as Student Advisor in the Sir George Dean of Students Office from 1980-1984. In October, 1985 Morey was appointed Advisor to the Rector on the Status of Women by the Board of Governors with a mandate to conduct research and make recommendations on all matters affecting women on campus, including students, faculty, and staff. Subsequently, a 10-member (all female) Committee on the Status of Women was established and chaired by Morey and her term as Chair was extended to May 1, 1992.

From November 1, 1988 to 1994 Morey served as Coordinator of Special Projects in the Office of the Rector. In June, 1989 she was named Acting Director of the Council for International Cooperation, following Martin Singer (the position was filled in April 1991). Morey left Concordia for Marianopolis College in 1994, followed by a term at a university in the United Arab Emirates. In Fall, 2002 Morey returned to Concordia temporarily, as Communications and Special Projects Officer in the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 2008 she was named Dean of Students. She served as Dean for a three-year term and retired in May, 2011.

• In 1983 Morey was named to the Board of the Canadian Bureau for International Education.
• At Forum ‘85 in Kenya, Morey was selected by the Women’s Program in the Department of the Secretary of State to be a representative of the Canadian Bureau for International Education.
• On March 4, 1987 Morey was a panelist for Do They Want Us There?, a discussion on employment equity at the School of Community and Public Affairs.
• Morey was a member of the Consultative Committee on Employment Equity, established in early 1988 with a mandate to formulate goals and regulations for the future Employment Equity Program.
• During International Women’s Week in March 1988, Morey participated in the panel discussion What’s Happening for Women at Concordia University?.
• In 1991 Morey co-chaired with Corinne Jetté the Concordia Task Force on Multiculturalism with a mandate to prepare recommendations on classroom, workforce, and community cultural diversity.
• Morey was Chair of the Native Research project, which submitted a December 1991 report addressing the experience of First Nations students within university economic, social, and political conditions and systems. The report led to an implementation plan supporting First Nations communities and the opening of the First Nations Student Centre in September 1992.
• In 1994 Morey was chosen by Oxfam Canada as International Observer of South African elections.
• In Spring 2009, Morey accepted the role of university representative on the Board of Directors of Dawson College, a three-year appointment from the Minister of Education.