Anna Hoddé

Anna Hoddé is a doctoral student in the Interuniversity PhD Program in Art history at Concordia University. She investigates collaborative practices between designers and Zapotec potters in Valles Centrales, Oaxaca, Mexico, focusing on a social design collective involved with the production, promotion and circulation of functional ceramics from the region. Looking at pottery as a relational process, she questions its potential for the unfolding of counter-hegemonic practices and narratives in vernacular craft and design produced in “the South”. Committed to ethics and epistemic justice, her work is informed by decolonial, transcultural and feminist approaches and wishes to foreground critical work by Indigenous thinkers and activists.
Her research is supported by a doctoral fellowship from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC).

Originally from the south of France, Anna holds a MA in History (2017) and a BA with a double major in Art History and History (2013), from Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, France. She is currently based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), humbly working and learning as an uninvited guest on unceded Kanien’keha:ka territory.

She is actively involved in the academic community, as the general coordinator of the art history symposium series Hypotheses, AHGSA PhD representative, member of the Doc-Inter Student Committee, TRAC Union co-delegate for the Art History department, and active member of TRAC’s Feminist Workplace Committee (FWC).