Awards, audio pieces and ambassadorships
Two of Canada’s newest ambassadors are also Concordia graduates: Carol McQueen (left) became ambassador to the Republic of Tunisia and Nathalie Dubé became ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco.
There is plenty to take pride in this end of winter, with prizes, ambassadorships, fellowships and grants going to Concordia’s community of students and scholars.
Here’s a roundup of our most recent bragging rights:
A $44,392 SSHRC Connection Grant was recently awarded to Erica Lehrer, a professor in the Department of History, in support of the experimental research-creation project, Moving memory: Dismantling hierarchies of knowledge via experimental curating.
The project is led by postdoctoral fellow Nadine Blumer, who is an assistant faculty affiliate in the history department and with the Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence/Centre for Curating and Public Scholarship (CCPS), in collaboration Hourig Attarian, an assistant professor in the Department of Education and member of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, and independent curator Anique Vered, a visiting academic in the Department of Studio Arts.
The project launches at the Association for Critical Heritage Studies conference held at Concordia in June.
Linda Kay, professor in the Department of Journalism, is a finalist for the Prix du Canada 2016 in social sciences for her book, Elles étaient seize : Les premières femmes journalistes au Canada, published by Presses de l’Université de Montréal (in English, The Sweet Sixteen: The Journey that Inspired the Canadian Women’s Press Club, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press).
The Prix du Canada are awarded annually to the best scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences. The awards celebrate books which make outstanding contributions to research, are written in an engaging way, and enrich social, cultural and intellectual life in Canada.
John Potvin, associate professor of art history, has been awarded the Historians of British Art Book Award for Bachelors of a Different Sort: Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain, published with Manchester University Press.
Two of Canada’s newest ambassadors are also Concordia graduates. Nathalie Dubé, BComm 90, became ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco, and Carol McQueen, BA 95, became ambassador to the Republic of Tunisia in December.
PhD student Lachlan MacKinnon was awarded an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship to be held at the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. The project builds on his thesis work at Concordia on the decline of industrial Cape Breton.
An audio fiction piece by three master’s students and an alumnus premiered yesterday on Radiotopia's award-winning podcast, The Heart. The 15-minute piece, "Alex," is the second instalment of The Heart's current mini-series, "Ghost."
The conventional narrative of dating is queried in this non-linear story. Using sound in an emotive and imaginative way, it metaphorically explores human connection and the peculiarity of memory. "Alex" is available to stream on The Heart's website. It can also be downloaded for free on iTunes.
The team behind it is composed of media studies master’s students Michelle Macklem and Katie Hill, as well as individualized study MA student Dane Stewart and Matthew Kariatsumari, BComm 13.
Patrick Lehman, BFA 09, has been nominated for a Juno in the R&B/Soul Recording of the Year category for his album, Butchy’s Son. Read more about his musical family. The Juno Awards will air on CTV at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 3.
Do you know an exceptional Concordian? Submissions are welcome at now@concordia.ca.