Chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage, Lucie K. Morisset is a professor in the Department of Urban and Tourism Studies at the School of Management Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal.
An architectural historian and anthropologist by training, she is interested in the ideas and objects of urbanism, particularly in company towns and industrial wastelands. She researches the formation and meaning of the built landscape and the relationships between identity, culture and territories, among others as they manifest themselves through heritage practices and the production of heritage discourses. Her work includes theoretical explorations of heritage communities and the right to heritage, and action research initiatives on territorial and local development.
Lucie K. Morisset is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.