Jess Herdman

Director

Executive Director, Canadian Association of Learned Journals

Dr. Jess Herdman is an editor, indexer, and book designer, and a cultural historian. 

Jess is the Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Learned Journals/Association canadienne des revues savantes, and the Managing Editor for the bilingual journals Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d’études du développement and Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music/Revue canadienne de musique, as well as Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work. 

Jess’s research explores music, gender, poverty, religion, violence, and colonialism. Jess holds a PhD in musicology from UC Berkeley, where they completed a dissertation exploring how music was used to foment violence and mark difference during the Wars of Religion in Lyon. Their subsequent work in two postdoctoral fellowships focused on the traces of a matriarchal Wendat musical politics of diplomacy and survivance.