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<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/b><\/h2>\nAn Associate Professor in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and Assistant Director of Curatorial Studies in the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She holds a PhD in Anthropology and History, and a certificate in Museum Studies from the University Michigan. Patterson is author of <\/span>several articles<\/span><\/a> and co-editor of two books: <\/span>Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places<\/span><\/i> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and <\/span>Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge and Questioning Discipline<\/span><\/i>(University of Michigan Press, 2011). She is currently completing a manuscript that examines the multiple and contested understandings of childhood in late-apartheid South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n Her latest project, \u201cA New, Critical Children\u2019s Museology,\u201d identifies and develops approaches to producing exhibit content not just for or about children, but by and with children across the globe. It explores how children can change curatorial practice and their communities via active participation and exhibit co-creation. As a curator, scholar, and activist, Patterson is particularly interested in the intersections of memory, childhood, and racism in postcolonial Africa and Canada, and the ways in which they are represented and engaged in contemporary public spheres.<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\t\tRead more<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/p>\n Recently completed a PhD in Public History at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), where she also holds an MA in Public History and a Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies. Her research focuses on representations of children and childhood across Canadian commemoration sites like monuments and museums, shedding light on the engagement of young people as collaborators at these sites. Rebecca is a trained museum professional who has worked as a researcher and consultant for national museums across Ottawa. She is currently the Director of Operations and Programs at the Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children\u2019s Rights, and also serves as an Instructor within Carleton\u2019s Childhood and Youth Studies program.<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\t\tRead more<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n An associate Professor and Department Chair of English at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her scholarship examines the cross-media adaptation of children\u2019s literature with a focus on picture books and digital cultures. She is the co-editor of <\/em>More Words About Pictures: Current Research on Picture Books and Visual\/Verbal Texts for Young People<\/em>\u00a0(eds. Hamer, Nodelman and Reimer, 2017)<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0The Routledge Companion of Fairy-tale Cultures and Media\u00a0<\/em>(eds. Greenhill, Rudy, Hamer, and Bosc, 2018)<\/a>.\u00a0Dr. Hamer’s current research stems from her role as principal investigator on the SSHRC-funded project \u201cCurating the Story Museum: Transmedia practices, participatory exhibits, and youth citizenship\u201d with Dr. Ann Marie Murnaghan (York). This research examines how media is used to negotiate the cultural discourses of childhood, nationalism, gender, race, class, sexuality, and ability within children\u2019s museum exhibits. Framed by \u2018queering the museum\u2019 and \u2018the participatory museum\u2019 movements, the next phase of this research will invite young people to engage as collaborative-curators.<\/p>\n\n\n\tDr. Rebecca Friend (she\/her)<\/b><\/h2>\n
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