El Chenier is a Professor in the Department of History and an associate faculty member of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Department at Simon Fraser University where they teach courses in the history of sexuality, oral history, and Canadian social history. Their published research includes studies of interracial relationships from 1910 to 1950, butch/femme bar culture in postwar Toronto, Canadian and American male prison sex and sexuality, debutantes and elite femininity in interwar Montreal, and the origins of sexual deviance in legal and medical discourse. Her 2008 book, Strangers in Our Midst: Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario, was awarded an honorary mention for the Law and Society Book Prize. Currently, Dr. Chenier is completing a book on same-sex weddings in the United States in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. They are also the founder and director of the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony (ALOT), an open-access online archive of digital oral history, and interracialintimacies.org, an open-access online teaching and learning tool and archives.