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Tonya Davidson teaches sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. Her research focuses on monuments, public memory, various forms of public nostalgia, and Ottawa. She regularly teaches Introduction to Sociology, and a first-year seminar called \u201cthe Sociology of Ottawa.\u201d She has most recently published Tours Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging<\/em><\/a>. (2024) and Seasonal Sociology<\/a> <\/i>(2020 and co-edited with Ondine Park). Seasonal Sociology won the 2021 American Association of Publishers award for best textbook in the social sciences. Tonya is currently working on a book project with David Dean, which will offer analyses of all of the monuments in the National Capital Region. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Research<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tours Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging<\/em><\/a>. (2024). Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.<\/p>\n

Seasonal Sociology<\/em><\/a> (2020) (co-edited with Ondine Park). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.<\/p>\n

“Summer in Cottage Country: Expectations and Experiences of Canadian Nature” (2020). In T. Davidson and O. Park (Eds.), Seasonal Sociology<\/em>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.<\/p>\n

“The Social Lives of Statues” (2017). In Albanese, P, L. Tepperman and E. Alexander (Eds), Reading Sociology 3rd edition<\/em>. Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire and Hope <\/em>(2011).\u00a0Tonya Davidson, Ondine Park and Rob Shields. (Eds.), Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.<\/p>\n

“Nostalgia and Postmemories of a Lost Place: Actualizing \u2018My Virtual Homeland.” In Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire and Hope<\/em>\u00a0(2011) Tonya Davidson, Ondine Park and Rob Shields. (Eds.), Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.<\/p>\n

“Narratives of National Belonging at Ottawa Monuments: The Canadian Tribute to Human Rights” and “Enclave: The Women\u2019s Monument.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies<\/em>. No. 36 (2016).<\/p>\n

“Reassembling Ottawa: Editorial Introduction (with Nicholas Scott).” Canadian Journal of Urban Research<\/em>\u00a0Summer Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1-7 (Summer 2016).<\/p>\n

“Mica, Pedagogy, Defacement: Learning from Canada\u2019s National War Memorial.” The Public Historian<\/em>, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 42\u201361 (May 2016).<\/p>\n

“Mourning Stompin\u2019 Tom.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies.\u00a0<\/em>No. 35 (2016).<\/p>\n

“Imperial Nostalgia, Social Ghosts, and Canada\u2019s National War Memorial.”\u00a0Space and Culture,\u00a0<\/em>May 2016; vol. 19, 2: pp. 177-191.<\/p>\n

“A Scout\u2019s Life: English-Canadian Nostalgia, Colonialism, and Aboriginality.” In Ottawa Journal of Canadian Studies,\u00a0<\/em>(2014) vol. 48 (3).<\/p>\n

“Remembering Houses: The Role of Domestic Architecture in the Structuring of Memory.” Space\u00a0and Culture,\u00a0<\/em>(2009) vol. 12 (3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[25],"yoast_head":"\nTonya Davidson - Carleton Centre for Public History<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ccph\/people\/tonya-davidson\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ccph\/people\/tonya-davidson\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ccph\/people\/tonya-davidson\/\",\"name\":\"Tonya Davidson - 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