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Dr. Michelle S. A. McGeough, PhD

  • Assistant Professor, Art History

Research areas: Indigenous, gender, sexuality, Indigenous artistic production, Queer, 2Spirit, Indigenous Feminism(s), Indigenous Sovereignty, LGBTQ2spirit

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Publications

Journals

2018 “A Review of Maker of Monsters: The Extraordinary Life of Beau Dick.” BC Studies: The British Columbia Quarterly, no.199 Fall 2018. University of British Columbia.

2012 “Through Their Eyes: Indigenous Curatorial Practices.”  Wicazo Sa Review.  University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis. Vol. 27, No. 1, (Spring 2012), pp. 13-20.

Books

2009 “Through Their Eyes: Indian Painting in Santa Fe from 1918-1945.” Wheelwright Museum of the American IndianExhibition Catalogue

Book Chapters

2024                                   “Introduction.” Museum Queeries: Two-Spirit,                                              Indigiqueer, and LGBTTQ*

Interventions into Museums and Curation. Edited by Angela Failler, Michelle McGeough, and Heather Milne. Jagiellonian University Press. 2024

 

2024                                  “Finding the Unicorn: “Locating Queer Indigenous Lives in the Archive,” Museum Queeries: Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and LGBTTQ* Interventions into Museums and Curation.  ed. Angela Failer, Michelle McGeough and Angela Milne. Jagiellonian University Press. Forthcoming in 2024~peer reviewed.

 

2024                                  “Go-won-go Mohawk: Troubling Settler Colonial Constructions of Gender and Performativity.” In Looking Back and Looking Forward: American Indian Art Studies Today. Ed. Laura Smith and Kathleen Ash-Milby.  UNM Press~ peer reviewed

                         

2023                           “Beyond Queer Survivance.” The Routledge Companion                                      of Indigenous Art Histories in Canada and the United                                        States. New York: Routledge.  Peer reviewed



2008                                 “ Norval Morrisseau and the Erotic.” Me Sexy: an                                       Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality, edited by Drew                                         Hayden Taylor, Douglas & McIntyre, 2008, pp. 59–86.

Essays in catalogues

2020 “From Prohibition to Revitalization; Indigenous Arts and Cultural Production in British Columbia during the1950s.”commission essay Vancouver Art Gallery - Sumbitted

 

 

Participation activities

Conference Presentations

2019 Native American Indigenous Studies Association, Minneapolis MN.
Paper: 
Erotic Affections: Norval Morrisseau’s Influence on the Artist Production of Contemporary Two Spirit LGBTQQ2 Artists.

2019 Native and Indigenous Studies Association, Hamilton, New Zealand
Paper: 
Activating Indigenous Knowledge: Contemporary Indigenous Artists Push Beyond Queering the Canon.

2011 Native American Indigenous Studies Association, UC Davis, Sacramento CA. "Paper: Questioning The Colonial Constructions of Sexuality Identity: An Examination of the Indigenous Alternative Genders in the Films of Thirza Cuthand and Carey Tully

Boards and Memberships

2017- Sara and Tegan Foundation Board member
2009- Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) member
2005- Native American Art Studies Association (NAASA)
          Board member 2009-2013
2005- Aboriginal Curatorial Collective
           Board member 2019 -

Teaching activities

ARTH 376 Indigenous Art Survey

ARTH 396:  Mexican Muralism and its Legacies

ARTH 613: Seminar on Indigenous Feminism(s)

PhD Supervision -

2021

Adrian Deveau

Art History

2020

Alexandra Nordstrom

Art History

2022

Jamine Shira

Art History

2020

Nakasuk Alariaq

Art History

2022

Kari Cwyre

 

Art History

2022

Victoria May

INDI PhD

M.A. Supervision

2023

Julia Forin

Art History

2023

Emilie Contant

 

Art History

2021

Laia Nalin

Art History

2020

Emily Hassencahl-Perley

Art History


MFA 
2018  Jay Pahre M.F.A. Studio UBC 

External Examiner

External Examiner

Melanie Lefebvre

2024 Ph.D completed  Concordia

Marcella Torres Molano

2024 Ph.D completed Concordia

Kanwal Syed

2023 Ph.D completed Concordia

Susanne McCleod

2022 Ph.D. University of New Mexico

Dana Danger

Ph.D student Concordia

Rodrigo D’ Alcântara

  ABD Concordia

Alison Ariss

  ABD @ University of British Columbia

Yvonne Tiger

ABD University of Lethbridge

Caroline  DeFrias

 

2024 Concordia M.A.

Maegan Beck

2024 Concordia M.A

Teresa Vander Meer- Chassé.

2023 Concordia M.F.A.

Hanns Lujan

2023 Concordia M.A.

Laura Hodgins

 

2023 Concordia M.A.

Yasmeen Kanaan

 

2022 Concordia M.A

            Jasmine Shira

 

2022 Concordia M.A.

Michelle Sonas

2021 Concordia M.A.

Curation

2016.  Corollary Acts. I.D.E.A. Center Colorado College, Colorado Springs
2015 They Gather Together In One Place. 
Indigenous Art Center Hull Quebec 
2014 Beyond Recognition Aboriginal Abstraction.  
Indigenous Art Center Hull Quebec
2010
Rose B. Simpson, Matterings.   Museum of Contemporary Native American Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2009
Through Their Eyes: Indian Painting in Santa Fe 1918-1945.  Wheelwright Museum of the Native American Indian

Residencies

 2017 Banff Center for Creativity "Indigenous Art Journal May 29 -June 24.
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