Collin Bernard
Richard M. Bird Post-Doctoral Fellow
Collin Bernard is the 2025–2026 Richard M. Bird Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG). He recently completed his Ph.D. in History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he taught courses on European cities and wrote a dissertation on housing politics in 1970s France and Italy. At IMFG, his research examines how social housing finance has evolved in Canada and internationally over the past three decades, with a particular focus on the challenges municipalities face in balancing social goals with fiscal constraints. His work connects historical perspectives to contemporary debates in municipal finance and housing policy.