Angela Carr
Retired Professor
- J.D. (L.L.B.) (York University) B.A. M.A. and Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
- angela_carr@carleton.ca
Angela Carr is the author of Edmund Burke: Redefining Canadian Architecture, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, in 1995. This book has received an Award of Merit from the Toronto Historical Board and a J J Talman Award honorable mention, from the Ontario Historical Society. Professor Carr has published scholarly articles in the Journal of Canadian Art History, Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Bulletin, Architecture and Ideas, and a variety of other journals. She teaches Architectural History in the School for Studies in Art & Culture at Carleton University and supervises MA students in Art History, as well as MA and PhD students in Cultural Mediations and the School of Canadian Studies. Her areas of specialization include historical Canadian architecture and art, Canadian portraiture, including that of George Theodore Berthon, and methods of architectural history.
Professor Carr holds five university degrees including a JD (LLB) (Osgoode Hall Law School, 1975) and a PhD (University of Toronto, 1990). Her research in the fields of architectural and art history have been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is currently working on a book dealing with Toronto’s Osgoode Hall in the context of urban form. She has edited a set of graduate student essays under the title Raven Papers, supported by the Organized Research Unit for New Work in Canadian Art History.
In terms of her professional associations Professor Carr has presented papers at conferences of the College Art Association, the Society of Architectural Historians, the Universities Art Association of Canada, and the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada.. She has also delivered a number of invited lectures, including one on the work of architect Edmund Burke, to the Toronto Historical Board, and another on the contribution of architect and educator, Eric Ross Arthur, at a symposium organized in his honor.
As well as her other interests Professor Carr has served on a delegation to the Peoples Republic of China, organized by People-to-People Ambassadors, which allowed her to improve her familiarity with Chinese culture, and to learn about ethnic minorities, women and the disabled in another country.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Carr, Angela. Building for Civil Society: Osgoode Hall and Public Architecture in Toronto (in revision).
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Carr, Angela ed. Raven Papers: Remembering Natalie Luckyj, 1945-2002 (Manotick: Penumbra Press, 2010).
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Carr, Angela. Toronto Architect Edmund Burke: Redefining Canadian Architecture. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995.
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Articles in Refereed Journals
Carr, Angela. “Leaders, Legends, and Felons: negotiating portraiture, from veneration to vandalism,” RACAR 30, 1-2 (2005): 101-113.
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Carr, Angela. “De-Naturalizing the Canon: A Critical Reassessment of the Historiography of Art Writing in Canada.” (in preparation).
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Carr, Angela. “Fields and Theatre Churches: The Non-traditional Space of Evangelism.” Architecture and Ideas 3, 3 (1999): 62-79.
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Carr, Angela. “Technology in Some Canadian Department Stores: Handmaiden of Monopoly Capitalism.” Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada 23, 4 (1998):124-142.
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Carr, Angela. “More on the Portrait of Dr. Salem Bland: Another Spiritual Journey for Lawren Harris?” Journal of Canadian Art History 19, 2 (1998): 6-31.
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Carr, Angela. “Indices of Identity: A Canadian Architectural Practice in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century.” Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Bulletin 21 (March 1996):11-17.
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Carr, Angela. “From William Hay to Burke, Horwood & White: A Case History in Canadian Architectural Draughting Style,” Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Bulletin 15 (June 1990):41-51.
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Carr, Angela. “George Theodore Berthon (1806-92): Portraiture, Patronage, and Criticism in Nineteenth Century Toronto.” Journal of Canadian Art History 11 (December 1988):23-57.
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Carr, Angela. “Hopkins, Lawford & Nelson at Osgoode Hall.” Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Bulletin 13 (December 1988):17-25.
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Articles in Conference Proceedings
Carr, Angela. “Eric Ross Arthur: The Legacy of an Architectural Conscience,” in Eric Ross Arthur: Conservation in Context. Alec Keefer, ed. Toronto: Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, 2002.
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Carr, Angela. “Colonial Building and its Architectural Heritage.” in Fournier, Gersovitz, Moss et Associés, Architectes, Comprehensive Structure Report: Colonial Building, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador (March 2010), 14-26.
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Carr, Angela. “Historic Context.” in Fournier, Gersovitz, Moss & Associés, Architectes, Toronto Union Station Historic Structure Report: East Wing (Montreal, 2009).
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Carr, Angela. “Introduction,” in Fournier, Gersovitz, Moss & Associés, Architectes and Office for Urbanism, Statement of Cultural Heritage Value or Interest: Queen Street West, Toronto. Montreal, 2006.
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Carr, Angela. “Architectural Heritage.” in Fournier, Gersovitz, Moss & Associés, Architectes, Historic Structure Report on Toronto Union Station. Montreal, 2005.
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