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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Congratulations to Julia Mason, who completed a Major Research Paper entitled “Settler Colonialism, Settler Activism, and Solidarity in the City of Peterborough/Nogojiwanong.” In this paper, supervised by Dr. Julie Tomiak (Indigenous Studies-Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies), Julia studies the activities and archive of OPIRG Peterborough... More
Congratulations to Jan Rosete, who completed a Major Research Paper entitled “Exploring a Co-Governance Regime for Canada’s Water Governance Framework.” In this paper, co-supervised by Dr. Peter Hodgins (School of Canadian Studies) and Dr. Vivian Nguyen (Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science), Jan explores the challenges... More
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
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
Monday, May 8, 2023
Trycia Bazinet has defended her doctoral dissertation, "Is the Water Leaving? World-Making in the Settler-Colonial Context at Abitibi Lake, Québec, unceded Abitibi8inni Aki (Anicinape Territory)" with flying colours. The dissertation has been nominated for a Senate Medal! Bravo... More
Thursday, March 9, 2023
SICS doctoral candidate Andrew Gemmell has accepted an Historical Research (HR) contract with Library and Archives Canada’s Government Archives Division. His responsibilities will include managing the collection of government records, organizing archives, and facilitating research requests. Congratulations,... More
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Kelly Black, Canadian Studies Alumni, is Executive Director of Point Ellice Museum and Gardens in Victoria, BC. Read a March 4th article in the Capital Daily "Victoria Museums are changing the way they tell stories and hold collections" Kelly was also recently interviewed by VIU News after receiving the Anne and Philip Yandle Best... More
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
SICS MA graduate, Oliver Thorne(they/them), has been hired as a Research Coordinator at McMaster University. They are working on the SSHRC-funded project, "Redefining Reproduction & Sexual Healthcare." The project focuses on the gap within reproductive and sexual healthcare experienced by transgender, non-binary (TGNB) and Two-Spirit (2S)... More
Friday, September 16, 2022
Michelle Thompson recently defended her doctoral dissertation, nominated for a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement. Entitled Material and Digital Identity Negotiation of Francophone Music Artists: Decolonizing Diversity-Focused Festivals in Canada, the dissertation is a multisite digital ethnography of some of Canada's... More
Friday, July 29, 2022
On July 28, Miranda Leibel defended her dissertation, Writing our Wrongs: Accountability, Transparency, and ‘Justness’ in Provincial Child Death Inquiries. The dissertation examines concepts of ‘accountability’ and ‘transparency’ as they function to shape and contest political relationships in settler-colonial Canada through the public... More
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
John Carlson is completing his dissertation, Empowering Indigenous Self-Determination in-against-and-beyond Capital. The dissertation examines the exercise of Indigenous law through the blockade. It argues that the blockade as a practice of Indigenous law sparks a circuit of redistribution that mitigates the compulsions of capitalist relations of... More
Monday, July 18, 2022
William Felepchuk recently received his doctorate. His dissertation, recognized with a Senate Medal for Academic Excellence, is entitled Burial Places, White Supremacy, and Racial Necrogeographies in Eastern North America. William examines how the burial places of the racialized dead have been threatened, destroyed, or disallowed by white settlers... More
Amy Chamberlin recently received her doctorate. Amy’s dissertation, Storying Living Memories about Indian Day Schools: Transforming Reconciliation, tells the story of the Restigouche Indian Day School through a combination of living oral memories and archival research. The dissertation is a work in public history that takes steps to rectify the... More
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