Cynthia Milton

Dr. Cynthia Milton is the current director of the Centre for Global Studies (2026).

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, Past President of the RSC College of New Scholars, Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and former Canada Research Chair in the History Department at the Université de Montréal. She holds a BA from McGill in Honours History and Political Science, MA from Stanford in Latin American Studies, and Ph.D. from Wisconsin-Madison in History.

Her interdisciplinary research studies include inclusive modes of truth-telling, transitional justice, human rights, memory, and cultural interventions in the construction of historical narratives after state violence.

In her academic networking, she is concerned with the science-society disconnect in our dramatically changing world and the need for the humanities, arts, and social sciences in the diffusion of knowledge.