Why is Michel the right person for this post? Start with his editorial and bilingual strengths. The journal’s own masthead lists him as Editor (bilingual) - a perfect fit for a publication that serves readers and authors in both of Canada’s official languages. He also brings deep scholarly and academic-library expertise as an Associate Professor / Faculty Librarian at Governors State University (Illinois), experience that translates directly into strong peer-review workflows, metadata rigor, and discoverability.
Equally important is Michel’s research profile in onomastics and allied fields. He has presented on African naming practices - including disambiguation of personal names among the Baoulé and Malinké and the traditional concept of family in Côte d’Ivoire - showing a comparative, cross-cultural lens that enriches a journal devoted to names across languages and societies. This mix of editorial skill, information-science know-how, and hands-on name research is exactly what a modern onomastic journal needs.
As Editor-in-Chief, Michel will steward Onomastica Canadiana’s mission: publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed work on names and naming - across anthroponymy, toponymy, sociolinguistics, history, and digital methods - and widening the journal’s reach to new communities of scholars. If you have a project on names - Canadian or global, historical or contemporary - now is an excellent time to submit and to engage with the CSSN community.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Michel Nguessan and in welcoming his editorial leadership at Onomastica Canadiana.
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