Jessi Gilchrist

Originally from the rural Canadian prairies, Gilchrist began her studies at Brandon University in 2014 where she completed a Bachelor of Arts (honours) with a major in history and a Bachelor of Music specializing in flute performance. In 2018, she entered the two-year MA history programme at the University of Western Ontario where she was funded by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s. Under the supervision of Francine McKenzie, she successfully defended her MA thesis entitled “Global Governance and Imperial Entanglements: Cooperation, Conflict, and Catastrophe in Anglo-Italian Relations, 1922-1940” in summer 2020. She went on to work with Margaret MacMillan at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto on her second MA project entitled “Reconsidering the Locarno System: Great Britain, Fascist Italy, and the Imperial Roots of the Postwar Global Order, 1922-1925.”

Gilchrist previously worked as an analyst in the Geopolitics and National Security Learning Program at the Canada School of Public Service where she specialised on files relating to extremism within the Canadian national security environment.