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Elizabeth Bloodgood, PhD

Associate Professor, Political Science


Elizabeth Bloodgood, PhD
Office: S-H 1225.23  
Henry F. Hall Building,
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext. 7914
Email: elizabeth.bloodgood@concordia.ca
Website(s): Google Scholar
ORCID: 0000-0001-6093-8162

Dr. Beth Bloodgood is interested in the emergence and influence of non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and the political power of information and data. Her SSHRC-funded research (with Wendy Wong, Toronto, and Sarah Stroup, Middlebury) in partnership with Ajah examines NGO lifecycles and populations cross-nationally and over time in order to understand the relationships between national regulations, nonprofit data environments, and nonprofit regulators. The Global Registry of Nonprofit Data Sources (GRNDS) can be found at grnds.org and on the GRNDS Dataverse (https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataverse/GRNDS).

Education

Columbia University, MA, Political Science
Princeton University, PhD, Politics

Research interests

International Relations; Nongovernmental Organizations; Epistemic Communities; Nonprofit Regulations; Data


Teaching activities

Undergraduate Courses

  • ARTH 379 Postcolonial Theory and Art - Special Topic: Ethnic Futurisms and Contemporary Art
  • ARTH 379 Postcolonial Theory and Art - Special Topic: Migration and Mobility in Contemporary Art
  • ARTH 389 Issues in Ethnocultural Art Histories - Special Topic: Race, Citizenship and Art in Canada
  • ARTH 358 Studies in the History of Media Art - Special Topic: Fake News & Contemporary Art
  • ARTH 358 Studies in the History of Media Art - Special Topic: Screen-based Art and News Media
  • ARTH 368 Studies in Contemporary Art and Architecture - Special Topic: The Packaging of Contemporary Art
  • ARTH 358 Studies in the History of Media Art - Special Topic: Screen Culture
  • ARTH 358 Studies in the History of Media Art - Special Topic: Remix Culture
  • ARTH 450 Advanced Undergraduate Seminar - Special Topic: Contemporary Asian Art in a Global Context
  • ARTH 353 Technology and Contemporary Art

Graduate Seminars

  • ARTH 809 Interuniversity Doctoral Program Seminar - Methodologies - Global Art Histories (Winter 2022)
  • ARTH 615 Aspects of Postcolonial Theory in Art and Art History - Afrofuturism in Canadian Art
  • ARTH 615 Aspects of Postcolonial Theory in Art and Art History - The Art of Migration and Diaspora in Canada
  • ARTH 642 Aspects of Media and New Media -  Networked Art Practices
  • ARTH 615 Aspects of Postcolonial Theory in Art and Art History - Historiography of Contemporary Asian Art and Asian Diasporic Art
  • ARTH 648 Aspects of Museum Studies: Theories - Contemporary Exhibition Practice in the International Arena
  • ARTH 648 Aspects of Museum and Curatorial Studies: International Art Exhibitions (Fall 2019)
  • ARTH 649 Aspects of Museum Studies: Practice - Curating the 'Other' (Fall 2008)/Contemporary Exhibition Practice in the International Arena (BNL MTL) (Fall 2014)/ Curating Global Asian Indigenous (Fall 2018, Fall 2022)
  • ARTH 655 MA Thesis Seminar (Graduate Pro-Seminar) (2023-24, Fall 2024)

Graduate Supervision

Master’s Theses

 

MA Art History | Principal Supervisor 


Degree start date: 2023/09 (In Progress)

Margot Chambon

Kitty Kerr

Julia Lamar

Degree start date: 2022/09 (In Progress)

Daisy Duncan

Temple Marucci-Campbell


Kessie Theliar-Charles (Completed), Concordia University 

Degree Start Date: 2021/9 

Student Degree Received

Thesis/Project Title: Intergenerational transfer and Haitian artists in Quebec 

 

Ashley Raghubir (Completed), Concordia University 

Degree Start Date: 2019/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2021/6 

Thesis/Project Title: The Reparative Imaginary in the Contemporary Afrofuturist Art of Mohau Modisakeng and Ayana V. Jackson 

 

Jeanne Voizard-Marceau (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2017/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2020/11 

Thesis/Project Title: Digital Anxieties: Affect and Technological Governance in the Works of Cécile B. Evans and Ryan Trecartin 

 

Eli Larin (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2016/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2020/11 

Thesis/Project Title: Fourth Wave Feminism, Shadow Feminism, and the Explicit Body in the Performances of Kate Durbin, Ann Hirsch and Faith Holland 

 

Chiara Montpetit (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2016/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2020/11 

Thesis/Project Title: Connected By a Thread: Stories of Migration and Labour in Sara Angelucci’s Piece Work (2017) 

 

Jay Bossé (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2017/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2019/11 

Thesis/Project Title: Beyond the “Wrong Body” Narrative: Trans Masculine Embodiment and Disidentification Through Autobiography, Sex, and Play in James Diamond’s Jizz Envy (2014) and Skyler Braeden Fox’s Hello Titty (2015) 

 

Sarah-Eve Tousignant (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2016/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2018/6 

Thesis/Project Title: Jeremy Shaw’s Liminals: Imagining Possible Futures 

 

Tianmo Zhang (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2014/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2018/11 

Thesis/Project Title: Expanding Chinese Ink Painting in the 2014 Exhibition - Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art 

 

Anik Marchand (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2015/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2017/11 

Thesis/Project Title: Acadian Art and Identity: Évangéline, Claude Roussel, and Paul Édouard Bourque 

 

Jessica Kirsh (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2013/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2015/11 

Thesis/Project Title: Breathing Life into the Virtual: Towards Intersubjective Intimacy in Mixed Reality Art 

 

Victoria Nolte (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2013/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2015/6 

Thesis/Project Title: Crawling Across Borders: Transnational Nationalisms and the Asian Canadian Body in the Video Works of Jin-me Yoon 

 

Adrienne Johnson (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2013/1 

Student Degree Received Date: 2015/11 

Thesis/Project Title: Through African Canadian Eyes: Landscape Painting by Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century African Canadians 

 

Mikhel Proulx (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2011/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2013/6 

Thesis/Project Title: The Progress of Ambiguity: Uncertain Imagery in Digital Culture 

 

Charles Patrick Leonard (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2011/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2014/11 

Thesis/Project Title: Gu Xiong: Contemporary Chinese Art at the National Gallery of Canada 

 

Rajee Jejisher Gill (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2011/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2014/11 

Thesis/Project Title: Partition and Postmemory in the Work of Kriti Arora and Sharlene Bamboat 

 

Sarah Wilkinson (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2009/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2011/6 

Thesis/Project Title: The Living Monument: A Consideration of the Politics of Indigenous Representation and Historical Public Monuments in Quebec 

 

Jessa Alston-O'Connor (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2009/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2011/11 

Thesis/Project Title: Consuming Culture: Negotiating Asian-Canadian Identities through Food Culture and Art 

 

Wesley Colclough (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2009/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2012/6 

Thesis/Project Title: At the Crossroads: Brendan Tang, M. N. Yahgulanaas and Manga 

 

Michael Frederick Rattray (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2006/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2008/11 

Thesis/Project Title: Mapping the Post-Colonial Landscape Project: A Critical Analysis 

 

Erandy Vergera Vargas (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2006/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2008/11 

Thesis/Project Title: In Site-Specific: Three Art Projects on the Tijuana-San Diego Border Zone 

 

Dina Vescio (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2006/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2009/11 

Thesis/Project Title: Surveillance and Spectacle in Webcam-based Artworks: Eyes of Laura by Janet Cardiff and Homecammers—Women by Cheryl Sourkes 

 

 

MA Art History | Co-supervisor 

 

Rosemary Marland (Completed), Carleton University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2007/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2009/11 

Thesis/Project Title: Unmasking the Canon: The Role of the Uli Sigg Collection in the Construction of the Contemporary Chinese Art Canon 

 

 

M.A en Muséologie | Principal Superviser 

 

Delphine Larose (Completed), Université de Montreal 

Student Degree Start Date: 2014/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2016/4 

Thesis/Project Title: L’ART CONTEMPORAIN CHINOIS À MONTRÉAL: Études de casDrapeau rouge au Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal & Coup de foudre chinois à Arsenal 

 

 

MA Individualized Program | Co-supervisor 

 

Lennart (Naveed) Salek Nejad (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2021/9 

Student Degree ReceivedDate: 2024/6 

Thesis/Project Title: Social practice and racialized communities 

 

Doctorate | Concordia University

 

 

PhD Art History | Principal Supervisor 

 

Alexandra Tsay (In Progress), Concordia University

Contemporary Art in Kazakhstan


Manar Abo Touk (In Progress), Concordia University

Syrian Contemporary Art in Diaspora

 

Ojo Agi (In Progress), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2020/9 

Thesis/Project Title: Black feminism and Nigerian contemporary artists in the diaspora 

 

Varda Nisar (In Progress), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2019/9 

Thesis/Project Title: Complicity and Contradictions: Cultural Spaces and National Narratives in Pakistan 

 

Julie Alary Lavallee (In Progress), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2015/9 

Thesis/Project Title: Exhibition history of Indian contemporary art outside of the Subcontinent 

 

Kanwal Syed (Completed), Concordia University *Graduate Valedictorian

Student Degree Start Date: 2014/9 

Student Degree Received

Thesis/Project Title: (We the Sinful Women) Emerging Feminist Visuality in Contemporary Pakistani Art and Urban Feminist Discourses Post-9/11 

 

Mikhel Proulx (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2013/9 

Thesis/Project Title: Social Practice Before the Web: Participatory Networks in Canadian Art  

 

 

PhD Humanities | Principal Supervisor 

 

Joanne Hui (Completed) 

Student Degree Start Date: 2007/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2017/11 

Thesis/Project Title: Graphic Travelogue as Post-National Expression. 

 

 

PhD Humanities | Co-supervisor 

 

Koby Rogers Hall (In Progress), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2021/9 

Thesis/Project Title: Migration in Social Practice (Research-Creation) 

 

Sanaz Sohrabi (In Progress), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2017/9 

Thesis/Project Title: Petrocapitalism and Contemporary Art in Iran (Research-Creation) 

 

Ifeoma Ugonnwa Anyaeji (In Progress), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2014/9 

Thesis/Project Title: Plasto-Art: Neo-traditionalism – a decolonized journaling of indigenous Igbo (non)material culture through the eco-aesthetic practice of the Ikpa isiowu traditional (hair)craft 

 

Jaclyn Meloche (Completed) 

Student Degree Start Date: 2010/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2015/6 

Thesis/Project Title: Materials Matter: The Politics of Posthumanist Performativity in Contemporary Studio Practice 

 

Valerie Cools (Completed) 

Student Degree Start Date: 2008/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2014/11 

Thesis/Project Title: Motifs,Textures and Folds: Japanese Popular Visual Culture as Transcultural and Phenomenological Flow 

 

Devora Neumark (Completed) 

Student Degree Start Date: 2008/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2013/11 

Thesis/Project Title: “Radical Beauty for Troubled Times: The (Un)making of Home” 

 

 

PhD Individualized Program (INDI) | Co-supervisor 

 

Olivia McGilchrist (Completed), Concordia University 

Student Degree Start Date: 2018/9 

Student Degree Received Date: 2024/6

Thesis/Project Title: The Resilient Lens: Virtual Reality as Embodied Pedagogy (Research-Creation) 


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