Faculty of Fine Arts names new associate dean, research
Whitelaw is an associate professor in the Department of Art History will take on the role of associate dean, research as of July 1, 2014 | Photo credit: Anne-Renée Hotte.
Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts will welcome Anne Whitelaw as the new associate dean, research as of July 1, 2014.
Whitelaw is an associate professor in the Department of Art History.
Prior to joining Concordia in January 2011, Whitelaw was a research fellow at the National Gallery of Canada, and an associate professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta. She currently serves as President of the Universities Art Association of Canada.
Whitelaw teaches courses on the history of visual culture in Canada, theories of museums and exhibitions and the history of advertising.
Her research examines the intersections of art historiography and cultural institutions in Canada, with a particular focus on practices of exhibition and collecting as a means of understanding the formation of nationhood. She is the co-leader of a recent SSHRC funded partnership development grant examining the global circulation of objects from northern North America.
Whitelaw has an MA in the History and Theory of Art from the University of Essex (1989) and a PhD in Communication Studies from Concordia University (1996).
Whitelaw replaces Haidee Wasson, who has served as associate dean since 2010.
Haidee Wasson first came to Concordia in 2004 as an assistant professor, receiving tenure in 2008. Her interdisciplinary scholarship includes work on film and film culture, museums, emergent technologies, feminism and media historiography. Wasson's current SSHRC-funded research project investigates the history of portable film technologies and expanded cinema.
As of July 1, 2014, Wasson returns to the Mel Hoppenhiem School of Cinema as an associate professor.