{"id":2199,"date":"2014-03-14T14:02:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T18:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/discoverycentre\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:28:19","slug":"profile-art-history-cureus-participant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2014\/profile-art-history-cureus-participant\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile: Art History I-CUREUS participant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Profile: Art History I-CUREUS participant\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

NAME:<\/strong> Gabi Doiron<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROGRAM:<\/strong> Combined Honours in Humanities and Art History, fourth year<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FIELD OF RESEARCH:<\/strong> Art History<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. What have you been doing with your I-CUREUS research?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Michael Windover (my supervisor)  is currently working on research for a prospective exhibition on material and visual culture surrounding radio and interwar radio culture in Canada entitled Seeing, Selling and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956<\/em>. The project is highly collaborative, including work with Professor Anne MacLennan at York University. My role has been researching exhibition theory and design and considering education strategies for the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Why did you choose to do I-CUREUS?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was eager to do research work outside of my classes and was thrilled to find out about I-CUREUS. I am exploring my professional goals and this seemed like a great opportunity to gain personal and professional development while becoming familiar with some of my career options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. How is it related to your course work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I first met Professor Michael Windover last year in his class on Art Deco and interwar modernity and design and culture. In the class, he talked a lot about how objects speak and this was my first forray into material culture studies. The work I am doing for I-CUREUS is a continuation of some of the coursework I did for Professor Windover. Beyond Art History, I have interests in museum and art education. Overall, I-CUREUS has allowed me to bridge theoretical curriculum with practical skills. Also, with my background in humanities, I am pretty comfortable with theory so this connects well with my knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. What is the most valuable skill you have gained from the experience thus far? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My research skills have improved a lot. This role has meant I have made use of inter-library loans more than I ever had before. I have also become much more efficient at distilling the theses of texts. Due to the nature of my research, I am becoming very familiar with current debates concerning exhibition theory and how visitors learn within exhibitions–all of which would prove very useful for graduate studies and a career in museum or art education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. What would you tell people considering participating in this opportunity?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think it is a really unique opportunity to see what professors and academic professionals are doing outside of course work. You get to see first-hand what a career in academia involves. It is also a great confidence-building experience to work alongside academic professionals. I have found it a highly collaborative process; my supervisor has been very flexible and open to accommodating my research interests. In this way, I have found that I-CUREUS provides students with an invaluable learning experience, as well as the opportunity to develop personally, professionally, and academically guided by academic professionals. I would highly recommend the experience!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAME: Gabi Doiron PROGRAM: Combined Honours in Humanities and Art History, fourth year FIELD OF RESEARCH: Art History 1. What have you been doing with your I-CUREUS research? Professor Michael Windover (my supervisor)  is currently working on research for a prospective exhibition on material and visual culture surrounding radio and interwar radio culture in Canada […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icureus-testimonials"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42825,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/42825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}