Casarina Hocevar
Ph.D. Candidate
| Degrees: | BA (McGill), MMSt (University of Toronto), MA (McGill) |
| Email: | casarinahocevar@cmail.carleton.ca |
Current Program:
Ph.D. History (2023)
Supervisors:
Dr. Joanne Dean
Academic Interests:
food history, environmental history, agriculture and horticulture education, community gardens, diaspora studies, migration and immigration, labour history, food and identity, public memory, heritage sites, micro-histories, sensory studies, and much more…
Select Conference Contributions:
“A Century of Canadian Crisis Gardening.” Fighting Scarcity and Creating Abundance: The Politics of Food and Water in Canadian History and Beyond at the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster University, Online. June 25 – 26, 2021.
“Tending Land, Tending Appetites.” 25th Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference Montreal at Concordia University, Montreal, QC. February 20, 2020.
“In the Market: A Jewish Culinary Community.” McGill-Queen’s Graduate History Conference at Queen’s University, Kingston, ON. March 3, 2019.
Teaching Experience:
Environmental History of Canada with Amy Fung. Carleton University, online. 2024.
History of Sport with Matthew Bellamy. Carleton University, in-person. 2023.
World History 1300 – 2000 with Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert. McGill University, online. 2020.
Jewish History 1300 – 2000 with Gershon Hundert. McGill University, in-person. 2020.
Indigenous Peoples and Empires with Allan Greer. McGill University, in-person. 2019.
Description of Research:
My research examines how the Canadian state influenced domestic food production amongst immigrant communities in Canada during the early and mid 20th Century. I am particularly interested in the tension between what the state thought was “proper” food culture versus the lived realities of immigrant families in procuring, producing and consuming food.