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Sheryl N. Hamilton is Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Law and Legal Studies. She holds a J.D. in Law from the University of Saskatchewan (1988), an M.A. in Communication from Carleton University (1995), and a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from Concordia University (2000). She was the Canada Research Chair in Communication, Law and Governance (2003-2013) and is a Fellow of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada (2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

My current program of research explores the senses, bodies, media and regulation in the context of ubiquitous disease threat. From public health handwashing poster campaigns, to changing norms around social touch, to popular culture and media representations of disease risk, to viral photography, I am in interested in exploring how it feels to live in pandemic culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have also recently returned to the epistemological construct of the \u2018social science fiction\u2019 to explore contemporary issues in genetic science, non-human personhood, and the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Books<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Law\u2019s Expression: Communication, Law and Media<\/em> (2019), (with Sandra Robinson), LexisNexis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becoming Biosubjects: Bodies. Systems. Technologies. <\/em>(2013\/2011), (with Neil Gerlach, Rebecca Sullivan, and Priscilla Walton), University of Toronto Press. Winner of the G.J. Robinson Book Prize, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Impersonations: Troubling the Person in Law and Culture<\/em> (2009), University of Toronto Press. Winner of the Canadian Law and Society Association Best Book Prize, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited Collections and Special Issues Edited<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mediating Disease Cultures<\/em> (2019), special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication<\/em> 44(2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sensing Law <\/em>(2017), (with D. Majury, D. Moore, N. Sargent and C. Wilke), Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social Science Fictions<\/em> (2003), special issue of Science Fiction Studies<\/em> (with Neil Gerlach), 30(2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Articles and Book Chapters<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In press<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHands in Cont(r)act: The Resiliency of Business Handshakes in Pandemic Culture\u201d in Canadian Journal of Law and Society<\/em>, Special Issue Explorations in Sensori-Legal Studies<\/em> (D. Howes, ed.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMediating Disease Cultures: Introduction\u201d in Canadian Journal of Communication<\/em>, 44.2: 151-156.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEnvisioning a Habitus of Hygiene: Hands as Disease Media in Public Health Handwashing Campaigns\u201d in Canadian Journal of Communication<\/em>, 44.2: 263-288.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Charismatic Cultural Life of Cybernetics<\/em>: Reading Norbert Wiener as Visible Scientist\u201d in special issue of Canadian Journal of Communication<\/em> on the Margins of Cybernetics, 42(3): 407-429.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRituals of Intimate Legal Touch: Regulating the End-of-Game Handshake in Pandemic Culture\u201d in The Senses and Society<\/em>, 12(1): 53-68.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSensing Law: Introduction\u201d (with D. Majury, D. Moore, and N. Sargent) in Sensing Law<\/em> (S. Hamilton, D. Majury, D. Moore, N. Sargent and C. Wilke, eds.) London: Routledge, pp. 1-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEpilogue\u201d in Sensing Law<\/em> (S. Hamilton, D. Majury, D. Moore, N. Sargent and C. Wilke, eds.) London: Routledge, pp. 280-283.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlaying at Apocalypse<\/em>: Reading Plague Inc.<\/em> in and as Pandemic Culture\u201d (Equal co-authorship with Scott Mitchell) in Convergence:<\/em> The Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies<\/em> (2016): 1-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Human no like smart ape\u2019: Figuring the Ape as Legal Person in Rise of the Planet of the Apes<\/em>\u201d in Law and Humanities<\/em>, 10(2): 1-22. See http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17521483.2016.1233744<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrafficking in Zombie: The CDC Zombie Apocalypse Campaign, Diseaseability and Pandemic Culture\u201d (equal co-authorship with Neil Gerlach) in a special issue Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media<\/em> on the circulation of horror imagery at http:\/\/refractory.unimelb.edu.au\/2014\/06\/26\/cdc-zombie-apocalypse-gerlach-hamilton\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConsidering Critical Communication Studies in Canada\u201d in Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication<\/em> (Leslie Regan Shade, ed.), Scarborough, ON: Nelson \u2013 significantly revised version, pp. 4-24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCritical? No Question! Why critical communication study is still relevant, and even necessary in our contemporary mediascape\u201d in Communication in Question<\/em> (Joshua Greenberg and Charlene Elliott, eds.), Scarborough, ON: Nelson, pp. 57-65.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSupernatural Bureaucracy: Legal Rationality in Dark Fantasy Literature\u201d (equal co-authorship with Neil Gerlach) in Journal of Law, Culture and Humanities <\/em>6: 394-419.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIdentity Theft and the Construction of Creditable Subjects\u201d in Surveillance:  Power, Problems and Politics<\/em> (Sean P. Hier and Joshua Greenberg, eds.), Vancouver: UBC Press, pp. 116-139.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot-so-Intellectual: Have Intellectual Property Rights Run Amok\u201d in Communication in Question<\/em> (Charlene Elliott and Joshua Greenberg, eds.), Nelson, pp. 250-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow It\u2019s Getting Personal: Copyright Issues in Canada\u201d in How Canadians Communicate, vol. II<\/em> (David Taras, ed.), Calgary: University of Calgary Press, pp. 244-320.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2005<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom Mad Scientist to Bad Scientist: Richard Seed as Biogovernmental Event\u201d (equal co-authorship with Neil Gerlach) in special issue on Communication, Biotechnology and the Body, Communication Theory<\/em>, 15(2005): 78-99.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMade in Canada:  A Unique Solution to Internet Service Provider Liability and Copyright Issues\u201d in In the Public Interest:  Canadian Copyright Reform<\/em> (Michael Geist, ed.), Irwin Law, pp. 285-308.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2004<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPreserving Self in the City of the Imagination:  Georg Simmel and Dark City<\/em>\u201d (equal co-authorship with Neil Gerlach) in Canadian Review of American Studies<\/em>, 34.2: 115-34.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2003<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIntroduction: A History of Social Science Fiction\u201d (equal co-authorship with Neil Gerlach) Science Fiction Studies<\/em> 30(2), July 2003: 161-173.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTraces of the Future: Biotechnology, Science Fiction and the Media\u201d in Science Fiction Studies<\/em>, 30(2), July 2003: 267-282.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • Communication and the senses<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Sensory legal studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Disease, communication and media<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Intellectual property<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Science and media<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Bodies and regulation<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Freedom of expression<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Qualitative methods and methodology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Communication theory<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Regulation and governance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Graduate Students<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    I have supervised 46 Master\u2019s students, 8 Ph.D. students, 2 postdoctoral fellows and 15 honours research essay students to completion on a wide range of topics, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • philosophy and communication<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • celebrity culture<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • cultural regulation and cultural policy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • moral regulation<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • privacy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • gender and media<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • popular culture<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • cultural studies of food<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • gender and sexuality<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • discourse theory<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • surveillance<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • animal rights<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • personhood<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • science and media<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • law and emotions<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • and many other topics!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2839,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Sheryl","cu_people_last_name":"Hamilton","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[57],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-2838","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-journalism-communication"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"Sheryl.Hamilton@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"1975","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}