Breanna Kubat
Graduate Researcher
| Degrees: | Honours Bachelor of Global and International Studies (Carleton University), MA Canadian Studies (Carleton University) |
| Email: | breannakubat@cmail.carleton.ca |
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Breanna Kubat is a PhD Candidate in Canadian Studies at Carleton University. Her research is situated within broader social justice movements and demands for historical redress, and seeks to theorize the conditions under which institutional change occurs. Specifically, she examines how the dynamic interplay of socio-political, discursive, economic, and cultural forces drives or constricts such change. Her dissertation takes a transnational and comparative approach, examining student activism in relation to institutional renaming and rebranding at Toronto Metropolitan University (Canada) and the University of Bristol (UK). This research project has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) Program.
Building on her MA research, Breanna’s forthcoming chapter, “Pearsonian Nostalgia: Rethinking the Rhetoric of Canadian Internationalism Under the Trudeau Liberals” in Critical Perspectives on Canada in the World, edited by Liam Midzain-Gobin, David Horsby, David Black and Heather Smith, demonstrates the utility of nostalgia as a political branding strategy to reinforce narratives of Canadian exceptionalism and theorizes the implications of these narratives on Canadian culture and identity.