INVITED GUEST: Lauren Bialystok, Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Lauren Bialystok is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto.  She is a member of the Advisory Board to the Centre for Ethics and affiliated with the Centre for Jewish Studies. Her research spans topics in ethics, education, and identity; she has published on authenticity, social justice education, open-mindedness, sex education, and high school philosophy, among other topics.  She is co-author (with Lisa Andersen) of Touchy Subject: The History and Philosophy of Sex Education (Chicago, 2022) and co-editor (with Bruce Maxwell) of the Educational Foundations series (Bloomsbury, 2023).  Her current project is investigating the impact of AI on education in the humanities.REFERENCING FOR CITATION PURPOSES: Zanazanian, P. (Host) & Bialystok, L. (Guest). (2025, December) How history lives within us: Associate Professor Lauren Bialystok from the University of Toronto talks history. History in the Now Conversations https://historyinthenow.com/podcast/*This podcast, History in the Now Conversations, emerges from my research which can be found in my book: Zanazanian, P. (2025) Historical Consciousness and Practical Life: A Theory and Methodology. University of Toronto Press. For more information, visit: https://historyinthenow.com/book-historical-consciousness-practical-life/.