Our Team
This year’s symposium is organized by graduate students and faculty of the School of Canadian Studies and the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism.
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Akbel Guzide (pronouns she/her) is a second year MA student in the Canadian Studies program under the Concentration in Heritage Planning and Studies. She is a settler Turkish-Canadian with family from Türkiye who moved to Ottawa, the unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe territory, when she was young. She graduated from Carleton University with a Bachelor of Architectural Studies in the Urbanism program and with a minor in Heritage and Conservation in June 2023. |
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Dylan Jozkow (he/they) is a Master of Architecture student at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism. Specializing in Heritage Conservation and Sustainability in their Bachelors, they joined the Symposium Committee in 2024. They also serve as co-president of Landscape Lab, a student-run design lab focused on landscape architecture and ecology. |
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Elizabeth Harding (she/her) holds a BA in Canadian Studies with minors in Sociology and History from Carleton University. She is currently pursuing a MA in Canadian Studies, with a focus on Indigenous-Immigrant-settler relations. She joined the Heritage Symposium team in 2024 and looks forward to supporting the event for another successful year. |
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Keisha Cuffie holds a BA in Political Science with a minor in Critical Race Studies and is currently pursuing an MA in Canadian Studies (Heritage and Planning) along with a Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies. She is a successful author whose books focus on diversity, inclusion, and Black Canadian history, including narratives about Emancipation Day. Keisha also consults with museums & galleries to support decolonization of their exhibits. |
| Jonathan Hinkins is a student in Carleton’s MA for Canadian Studies specializing in heritage planning and studies. Jonathan currently works at DND helping to manage the largest federal portfolio of heritage in operational use. His research interests include national identity and nation building in Canada | |
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Chloe Maignan (she/her) is a Master of Architecture student at Carleton University, where she also completed a Bachelor’s degree in History and Theory of Architecture with a minor in Sociology. Her academic work is grounded in a critical understanding of how architecture intersects with broader social systems, particularly focusing on issues of marginalization, displacement, and access to space. Passionate about the intersection of photography and design, she is excited to contribute to the symposium as a volunteer photographer and looks forward to capturing meaningful moments that reflect the richness of dialogue and exchange throughout the event. |
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Mais Joudeh is a Master of Architecture student at Carleton University, where she also completed my undergraduate degree in Conservation and Sustainability. She has always been drawn to the stories buildings carry — especially how heritage, memory, and identity shape the way we design and experience space. Her interests lie in the overlap between architecture, cultural preservation, and ethics, and she loves exploring these themes through drawing, writing, and research. She is particularly passionate about architecture’s potential to hold space for communities, histories, and futures that are often overlooked. |
| Orly Lael Netzer’s research focuses on the public work of testimony in contemporary Canada. As a scholar of autobiography, memory, and cultural studies, she explores how audiences are invited to bear witness to difficult knowledge through literary, visual and performance art. Orly has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Alberta and is a lead member of the Ottawa Research Collaborative. She is currently a faculty member at Carleton’s School of Canadian Studies. | |
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Damiano Aiellois a licensed Italian building engineer and a Contract Instructor at Carleton University. He is a PhD candidate at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, where he has been researching the intersection between heritage conservation and reparations. Damiano received his Master’s Degree in Building Engineering and Architecture from the University of Catania. He is actively involved with Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS), where he contributes to projects focused on digital documentation and storytelling. Before joining Carleton University, Damiano worked as an engineer in Italy and gained multiple research fellowships at the University of Catania and Politecnico di Milano. |
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Susan Ross (she/her) is Associate Professor in the School of Canadian Studies, with a cross-appointment to the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University. Her teaching and research address the possibilities for sustainable heritage conservation, from integrated planning for historic urban infrastructure landscapes, to understanding the social significance of early apartment housing, to addressing the environmental legacies of 20th century building materials. A current focus explores the intersections of heritage and waste. Susan co-chairs the National Roundtable on Heritage Education, and is the Carleton lead for the Climate Heritage Network and the Just Transitions: Heritage Education for Climate Adaptation initiative. |
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Jurek (Jurek) Elżanowski is Associate Professor at Carleton’s School of Canadian Studies. He teaches courses in heritage conservation and memory studies across several programs. With Prof. Susan Ross, he coordinates the Heritage Planning and Studies Concentration and organizes the annual Heritage Conservation Symposium with graduate students. His research focuses on the urban history of post-conflict cities, including war damage cartography, postwar reconstruction, and the commemoration of genocide. He holds a joint Dr. phil./Ph.D. in Heritage Conservation and Architectural History as well as Interdisciplinary Studies from the Bauhaus University Weimar and the University of British Columbia. |