Clarence Hatton-Proulx holds a joint doctorate in urban studies and history from the INRS (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique – National Institute of Scientific Research) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and Sorbonne University in Paris, France.
His postdoctoral research focuses on waste processing and land contamination in contexts of deindustrialization.
His PhD dissertation, on the history of energy in the city of Montreal from 1939 to 1979, was awarded the Grand Prix de Thèse sur la Ville by PUCA (Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture, an interministerial office of the French administration) in 2024 (a review of which can be read – in French – in Métropolitiques).