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Rachel Jekanowski wins the prestigious Gerald Pratley Award
November 4, 2016
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| The Gerald Pratley Award was established in 1991 in tribute to Gerald Pratley's (1923-2011) contribution to the advancement of Canadian film studies. The Film Studies Association of Canada
invites applications from Honours and Graduate students (MA or PhD)
undertaking innovative research in cinema studies that will contribute
to the understanding of Canadian/Québec cinema both within Canada and
elsewhere. |
Concordia PhD student Rachel Webb Jekanowski (Concordia University) has won the award for her project entitled: "Entanglements of Resource Extraction in Hudson’s Bay Company Films.” Jekanowski’s research project forms a section of her dissertation in progress, “A Nation of Fur, Fish and Fuel: Documenting Resource Extraction in Canada, 1920-1980,” which draws on impressive archival research and interdisciplinary approaches to film and environmental humanities. Rachel will present this work to the Film Studies Association of Canada at their annual meeting, held in conjunction with the Social Sciences and Humanities Learned’s Congress June 2017.