Archives: Grad Research

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

In/And/Or “Canada”: Positionings, Practices, Paradigms

The 2024 School of Canadian Studies Graduate Symposium invites you to think about your relations to Canada. Do you see your work within, in conjunction with or in contention with Canada? Canada Studies is an evolving and interdisciplinary field that abounds with areas of scholarly inquiry. We are interested in expanding understandings and... More

Monday, January 8, 2024

Mark your Calendar – January 24th Research Talk

Gale Franklin, PhD candidate, will be presenting on "Listening to Whiteness: Race, Space and Belonging on Parliament Hill" From January 22nd to February 23rd, 2022, the so-called “Freedom Convoy” took up occupation of Ottawa. Drawing on testimony from the Ottawa People’s Commission inquiry into the occupation, this talk explores how sounded... More

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Congratulations to John Carlson on the successful defense of his PhD dissertation

John Carlson has successfully defended his PhD dissertation, "Empowering Indigenous Self-Determination In-Against-and-Beyond Capitalism: A Theory of Dual Dispossession." The dissertation was supervised by Professor Julie Tomiak. Congratulations,... More

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Congratulations to MA student Gyn Wylie on the completion of her MRP

MA student Gyn Wylie has completed a Major Research Paper entitled "Displaced Heritage: Place Attachment, the Loss of Land, and the Effects on Community Identity." Adopting a 'heritage from below' approach, the project examines community perspectives on heritage after the mid-twentieth century construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, which... More

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

End-of-Term MA Student Presentations

  During their final class of the fall term, our cohort of first year MA students showed how very diverse and deeply interesting research proposals can be in the School of Canadian Studies, a School engaged in redefining Canada as an object of critical research. Students clearly gave much careful thought to their projects,... More

Thursday, October 12, 2023

MA Core Course Field Trip

As part of their Core Course, our new MA students recently went to the Library and Archives Canada. Our students are committed to new critical findings. Visiting the Archives is a great way to get started, to explore resources and to ask research questions of the experts! Later this term, this MA cohort will... More

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

PhD Candidate Amy Fung’s recent peer reviewed publication

To the Last Drop – Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality "The romance of extraction underlies and partly defines Western modernity and our cultural imaginaries. Combining affect studies and environmental humanities, this volume analyzes societies' devotion to extraction and fossil resources. This devotion is shaped by a nostalgic... More

Friday, September 10, 2021

SICS Alum Andrew Walker wins CSN Best MA MRP

Congratulations Andrew Walker! CSN Best MA (or Equivalent) Thesis or Major Research Paper in Canadian Studies Prize winner!! Andrew Walker’s “Hidden Voices: Professional Choristers in Southern Ontario,” an M.A. thesis (Indigenous and Canadian Studies, Carleton University), contends that professional choristers form an important aspect of... More

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