{"id":3534,"date":"2020-01-20T13:02:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T18:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:02:50","slug":"morrisseau-project-phd-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/2020\/morrisseau-project-phd-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrisseau Project PhD Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Morrisseau Project PhD Fellowship\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Morrisseau Project PhD Fellowship<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Application Deadline: 1 February 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD Program Start: 1 September 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contemporary Indigenous art history in Canada owes a debt to the art and life of Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau, a trail blazer and cultural warrior whose unique visual language has shaped diverse ways of thinking about Indigenous arts today. Under the directorship of Dr. Carmen Robertson<\/a>, Tier I Canada Research Chair in North American Indigenous Art and Material Culture, the Morrisseau Project (1955-85) at Carleton University is investigating the aesthetic, political, and cultural work of this Anishinaabe artist in order to create a comprehensive understanding of Morrisseau\u2019s art and artistic impact that will enable new ways of analyzing Indigenous artworks and their circulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Morrisseau Project (MP) is currently recruiting a new PhD student to join the Morrisseau Project team and conduct original dissertation research<\/strong> on some aspect of Indigenous art history in Canada or the United States that contributes to conceiving of art through Indigenous ways of knowing. Potential dissertation topics include: Woodland School and Anishinaabe artistic contributions by artists in communities, art galleries or museum collections; contemporary curatorial articulations of Indigenous ways of knowing; the impact of the Woodland School on Indigenous popular culture; theorizing Indigenous histories of art;  building new histories of art inspired by Morrisseau\u2019s entry into the mainstream art world since the 1960s. (Note that our Morrisseau Project focuses particularly on the period from 1955 through 1985.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the admissions funding package<\/a>, travel bursaries<\/a>, and awards offered by Carleton University, the MP PhD fellow will be guaranteed the following funding package in Year 1, which will be renewable for up to four years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n