Marcel Martel (born 1965) is a Canadian historian. He currently holds the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian History at

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...

. A student of Ramsay Cook, Martel has published extensively on topics ranging from French Canadian nationalism to federal drug policy. His book ''Le deuil d'un pays imaginé'' won the 1997 ''Prix Michel-Brunet'' from the . In 2017, Martel was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Canada judges to have "made remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public life ...

.Five York professors elected to Royal Society of Canada
''Excalibur'', October 2, 2017

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1965 births 20th-century Canadian historians Canadian male non-fiction writers Living people Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada York University faculty Historians of Quebec 21st-century Canadian historians {{Canada-historian-stub