{"id":13083,"date":"2024-03-04T09:28:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T14:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/canadianstudies\/?post_type=cu-people&p=13083"},"modified":"2024-04-22T11:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T15:02:34","slug":"trina-cooper-bolam","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/canadianstudies\/people\/trina-cooper-bolam\/","title":{"rendered":"Trina Cooper-Bolam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trina Cooper-Bolam is an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University and a Banting Postdoctoral Researcher working with Concordia University\u2019s Curating and Public Scholarship Lab (CaPSUL). Cooper-Bolam earned a PhD in Cultural Mediations (2020) and an MA in Canadian Studies (2014) from Carleton University. Previously, Cooper-Bolam held senior positions at the Aboriginal Healing and Legacy of Hope Foundations\u2013organizations working to transform the legacy of residential schools. Equally an academic researcher and an exhibition curator\/designer, Cooper-Bolam is an ongoing contributor to the Survivor-led Reclaiming Shingwauk Hall <\/em>exhibition at Algoma University.<\/p>\n

A settler\/first generation Canadian living and working on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe territory in Ottawa, Cooper-Bolam recognizes her implicatedness in historical continuities of settler-colonial violence, which she works to disrupt through acts of decolonial allyship. Her research focuses on \u2018the museum as method\u2019 and uncovers approaches, methods, and pedagogies for augmenting the affective force of history in the present, particularly in the context of difficult knowledge and marginalized and erased histories. Interpreting the constructs \u2018museum\u2019 and \u2018exhibition\u2019 liberally, Cooper-Bolam works to manifest hidden and erased histories and materialities. In examining, experimenting with, and applying collaborative transdisciplinary performative (research-led) methods of exhibitionary inquiry, her research contributes to a growing body of literature on exhibition as a research method.<\/p>\n

Her current project, in collaboration with Erica Lehrer, is one of combined research-creation and critical pedagogy entitled Decolonial Methods: Mobilizing the Archive \/ Remediating Traumatic Space<\/em>. A transdisciplinary Indigenous\/settler research collaboration, this project is part of a research trajectory that responds to the priorities of Indigenous storytellers and engages students from Concordia and Carleton Universities in building and supporting Indigenous-driven, technologically enhanced, in situ<\/em> interpretation, memorialization, and Indigenous place-(re)making.<\/p>\n

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Forthcoming Publications<\/p>\n