{"id":8966,"date":"2014-02-14T11:53:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T16:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/history\/?post_type=cu-people&p=8966"},"modified":"2025-05-06T12:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:50:44","slug":"meghan-lundrigan","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/meghan-lundrigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Lundrigan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supervisor: <\/strong>Jennifer Evans<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current program (including year of entry):<\/strong> Ph.D. (2013)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academic interests:<\/strong> modern European history; contemporary Germany; public history; social media; human rights theory; visuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Description of research: <\/strong>My dissertation, entitled “Holocaust Memory and Visuality in the Age of Social Media,” focuses on social media programming in Holocaust museums specific to image-sharing social media platforms such as Instagram, Tumblr and Flickr. I am particularly interested in the ways in which official and museological Holocaust narratives are communicated through these mediums, and the ways in which digital platforms can constitute spaces for memory-making and dissemination. As well, I am investigating the ways in which visitors seek to engage in this process by taking photographs of these spaces and sharing them in online forums;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications:<\/strong>
\nHolocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape<\/em>. Co-written with Jennifer Evans and Erica Fagen. (Continuum, forthcoming in 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected conference presentations and lectures:<\/strong>
\n“Crafting History in the Age of Social Media.” Guest lecture for HIST 2809: Historian’s Craft (P. Nelles), Carleton University, ON, March 28th, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c#NeverForget: Social Media, Visuality, and Affectual Engagement at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.\u201d Paper presented at Context and Meaning XV: Sensing Matter(s), Queen\u2019s University, ON, January 29, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVisible Authority: Holocaust Aesthetics in the Age of Social Media.\u201d National Council on Public History Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, April 16, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFiltering Memory: #Selfie Culture at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.\u201d Paper presented at 20th Annual Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium, Carleton University, ON, March 6, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching and Mentoring Experience<\/strong>
\nHIST 2510A: 19th Century Germany, Fall 2016.
\nTA Mentor, Department of History, 2014-2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching Assistantships and Research Assistantships:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n