{"id":38311,"date":"2024-07-09T15:57:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T19:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?p=38311"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:35:55","slug":"hailey-ann-walker-wins-cpsa-3-minute-thesis-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/2024\/hailey-ann-walker-wins-cpsa-3-minute-thesis-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Hailey-Ann Walker wins CPSA 3 Minute Thesis Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Hailey-Ann Walker wins CPSA 3 Minute Thesis Competition\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Hailey3_PhDstudent2024_300x455.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Hailey-Ann Walker\" class=\"wp-image-38312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Hailey3_PhDstudent2024_300x455.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Hailey3_PhDstudent2024_300x455-160x243.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Hailey3_PhDstudent2024_300x455-240x364.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to PhD candidate Hailey-Ann Walker for winning the 2024 CPSA 3 Minute Thesis Competition!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About Hailey-Ann&#8217;s research:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In the last two decades, genealogy has been transformed from the niche pursuit of family-tree hobbyists into a multi-billion-dollar international industry. <em>Ancestry.com<\/em> dominates this industry. With the help of public government archives from around the world and the active participation of its massive international userbase, <em>Ancestry<\/em> has consolidated an astonishing collection of over 60 billion digitized archival artefacts and a genetic database with over 25 million DNA specimens from around the globe. Hailey\u2019s work aims to analyze Ancestry.com not simply as another \u201cbig data\u201d corporate success story, but as a distinctly political phenomenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ancestry\u2019s<\/em> ever-expanding digital database is a useful tool for modern governments because it centralizes enormous amounts of population data that can be used by states to legitimate (or delegitimate) ethnic claims to land as much as it can be used in law enforcement or to measure genetic mortality statistics. However, <em>Ancestry.com<\/em> conveniently serves the ends of modern government in a more fundamental way: by facilitating the continual incitement, participation, and formation of governable subjects who offer themselves up willingly, and even eagerly, as identities that can be known, compartmentalized, and managed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether it\u2019s being able to prove what ethnic group we belong to, what land we are indigenous to, or what generational traumas and triumphs we carry on behalf of our ancestors, we, the subjects of modern government, are routinely called to know, represent, and document the truth of our identities. <em>Ancestry.com<\/em> makes this concretely possible by offering individuals instant access to the raw materials of self-curation in both archival and genetic form.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/hailey-ann-walker\/\">Hailey-Ann Walker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to PhD candidate Hailey-Ann Walker for winning the 2024 CPSA 3 Minute Thesis Competition! About Hailey-Ann&#8217;s research: &#8220;In the last two decades, genealogy has been transformed from the niche pursuit of family-tree hobbyists into a multi-billion-dollar international industry. Ancestry.com dominates this industry. 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