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EPISODE · Aug 14, 2025 · 57 MIN

SPECIAL SUMMER EDITION: Paul Zanazanian, Associate Professor, McGill University

from History in the Now Conversations · host Paul Zanazanian

Paul Zanazanian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. His research examines historical consciousness’s workings in social actors’ everyday means of knowing and doing when constructing social reality for purposes of living life. Theoretically and methodologically, he explores historical consciousness’s role in the development of individual and we-group identities and their consequent potentials for agency. He pays attention to these manifestations in both formal and informal educational settings. He is co-editor of Teachers and the Epistemology of History (2024), published by Palgrave Macmillan, and author of Historical Consciousness and Practical Life: A Theory and Methodology (2025), published by University of Toronto Press. He also hosts a podcast, History in the Now Conversations, available on his website  historyinthenow.com and on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube.REFERENCING FOR CITATION PURPOSES: Zanazanian, P. (Host). (2025, August) How history lives within us: Zanazanian presents his book, ‘Historical Consciousness and Practical Life: A Theory and Methodology’. 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/⁠.

Paul Zanazanian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. His research examines historical consciousness’s workings in social actors’ everyday means of knowing and doing when constructing social reality for purposes of living life. Theoretically and methodologically, he explores historical consciousness’s role in the development of individual and we-group identities and their consequent potentials for agency. He pays attention to these manifestations in both formal and informal educational settings. He is co-editor of Teachers and the Epistemology of History (2024), published by Palgrave Macmillan, and author of Historical Consciousness and Practical Life: A Theory and Methodology (2025), published by University of Toronto Press. He also hosts a podcast, History in the Now Conversations, available on his website  historyinthenow.com and on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube.REFERENCING FOR CITATION PURPOSES: Zanazanian, P. (Host). (2025, August) How history lives within us: Zanazanian presents his book, ‘Historical Consciousness and Practical Life: A Theory and Methodology’. 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/⁠.

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