Student profile
Victoria MacBeath
Program
Victoria (Tori) MacBeath is a PhD student in the Art History department at Concordia University. She holds an MA in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory from McMaster University. Victoria's SSHRC-funded doctoral research considers how crafted objects act as materializations of a feminist ethics of care in rural New Brunswick. In doing so, her project tackles themes of decolonization, language politics, marginalized communities and histories of making, and place- and identity-making.
Thesis Title: Care Ethics in Rural New Brunswick Craftmaking
Supervisor: Dr. Elaine Cheasley Paterson
Research Interests:
- Material culture
- Craft
- Atlantic Canadian history
- Gender studies
- Care Ethics
- Place
Teaching:
- ARTH 380 Histories of Art History
Teaching Assistantships:
- ARTH 200 Perspectives in Art History (2022-23) - Professor Steven Stowell
- FFAR 250 Interdisciplinarity Across the Fine Arts (2023-24) - Professors Sandra Huber and Molly-Claire Gillet
Research Assistantships:
- The Home/Making Project - Elaine Paterson (2022-24)