Scott de Groot

Title: Instructor - Spring 2026
Email: scott.de.groot@gmail.com

Biography:

Scott de Groot is a curator and historian at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. He holds a PhD from Queen’s University and specializes in the history of sexuality and gender, public history and heritage, and 2SLGBTQ+ activism and rights. He is an Associate of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University.

Scott is the lead curator of Love in a Dangerous Time: Canada’s LGBT Purge, the largest exhibition on queer history and 2SLGBTQ+ activism ever produced by a Canadian museum. The exhibition has won several awards, including the 2025 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Museums. After a two-year run at CMHR in Winnipeg, Love in a Dangerous Time will begin a national tour in 2027. Two modular, pop-up versions of the show are already travelling to non-museum venues across North America, from regional libraries on Vancouver Island to the Embassy of Canada to the United States in Washington, DC.

Passionate about public history and heritage, Scott has contributed to several major projects in an advisory capacity, including Thunderhead: Canada’s 2SLGBTQI+ National Monument, the Two-Spirit Archives at the University of Winnipeg, and a queer history mural project at the Rainbow Resource Centre’s Broadway campus.