First Jarislowsky Foundation doctoral fellow named

Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande has been named the first Jarislowsky Foundation Doctoral Fellow in Canadian Art History. The fellowship will be held at the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. This one-year appointment, which took effect on June 1, 2013, is made possible by a generous donation from the Foundation.

Gaudreau-Lalande is studying the uses and functions of the portrait as an expression of modernity in Quebec in the first half of the twentieth century. In addition to pursuing his research, Gaudreau-Lalande will be working to increase graduate and undergraduate involvement in the Institute's activities.

Gaudreau-Lalande completed his master's degree in Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal, working under the direction of Dr. Annie Gérin. He entered the Inter-university PhD program at Concordia in 2012. In March 2013, he was co-organizer, with Marissa Neave, of an international graduate student conference Crisis!/La crise! which explored forms of rupture and contestation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art.