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Concordia University

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Balbir K. Singh

Assistant Professor

◦ Asian and Arab diasporic cultural studies
◦ Race, affect, and aesthetics
◦ Visual and material cultures
◦ Anti-colonial methods
◦ Surveillance studies
◦ Race, religion, empire
◦ Fashion and the body 

    Elaine Cheasley Paterson

    Associate Professor

    ◦ Theory and History of Craft, Decorative Arts, and Design
    ◦ 19th-Century Arts and Crafts Movement
    ◦ Women’s Art and Social History
    ◦ 18th-21st-Century Material Culture and Design History
    ◦ Studio Craft, Indie Craft, DIY and Craftivist Movements
    ◦ Critical Craft Theory
    ◦ Craft and the Museum, Curating Craft 

      May Chew

      Assistant Professor

      ◦ Visual and material cultures
      ◦ Interactivity and immersion
      ◦ Public art and social engagement
      ◦ Haunting and spectrality
      ◦ Museums and archives
      ◦ Culture and technology
      ◦ Cultural studies
      ◦ Settler and postcolonial studies 

        Rebecca Taylor Duclos

        Professor

        ◦ Contemporary Art
        ◦ Radical Pedagogy, Art and Design Education
        ◦ Canadian Art History
        ◦ Museology and Curatorial Practices
        ◦ Cultural Studies, Material Culture
        ◦ Transdisciplinarity

          Cynthia Imogen Hammond

          Professor

          ◦ History and theory of architecture, landscape architecture and the city
          ◦ Cultural landscapes
          ◦ Gender and space
          ◦ Feminist and posthumanist theory
          ◦ Research-creation and interdisciplinary practice
          ◦ Community-engaged scholarship and creative work 

            Kristina Huneault

            Professor

            ◦ Nineteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture
            ◦ Canadian Art
            ◦ Art-Historical Method
            ◦ Women Artists
            ◦ Art and Philosophy
            ◦ Art and Subjectivity
            ◦ Art and Colonialism 

              Heather Igloliorte

              Associate Professor

              ◦ Inuit Arts and Cultural History
              ◦ Contemporary Inuit, First Nations, and Métis art in Canada
              ◦ Native North American and Circumpolar Arts
              ◦ Indigenous Exhibition and Collecting Histories
              ◦ Curatorial Theory and Practice
              ◦ Decolonizing Methodologies
              ◦ Issues of Representation and Self-Representation
              ◦ Colonization, Sovereignty, Resilience and Self-Determination in Art
              ◦ Indigenous Film, Performance and New Media Practices 

                Joana Joachim

                Assistant Professor

                ◦ Black diasporic art histories
                ◦ Art and Black Feminisms
                ◦ Black Canadian art history
                ◦ Canada and the Black Atlantic ◦ Black Canadian studies
                ◦ Critical museum and archive studies
                ◦ Canadian slavery studies

                  Martha Langford

                  Professor

                  ◦ Photographic History and Theory
                  ◦ Canadian Photographic Historiography
                  ◦ Twentieth-Century Canadian Art
                  ◦ Visual Culture
                  ◦ Photographic Experience (Memory and Imagination)
                  ◦ Institutional Theory

                    Michelle McGeough

                    Assistant Professor

                    ◦ Indigenous Art and Art Histories
                    ◦ Indigenous Constructions of Gender, Sexuality
                    ◦ Indigenous Artistic / Cultural Production
                    ◦ LGBTQ2spirit Queer
                    ◦ Indigenous Feminism(s)
                    ◦ Indigenous Sovereignty
                    ◦ Indigenous Curatorial Methods
                    ◦ Contemporary Art
                    ◦ Decolonization

                      Alice Ming Wai Jim

                      Professor

                      ◦ Contemporary Art
                      ◦ Media Art
                      ◦ Contemporary Asian Art
                      ◦ Asian Canadian Art
                      ◦ Theories of Representation
                      ◦ Ethnocultural Art Histories
                      ◦ Mobility and Migration
                      ◦ Global Art Histories and Curatorial Studies 

                        Nicola Pezolet

                        Associate Professor

                        ◦ History of Architecture and the Built Environment in Europe and North America (19th-20th Century)
                        ◦ Modern Art and Architecture Theory
                        ◦ Abstraction and the “Synthesis of the Arts”
                        ◦ 20th Century Catholic Architecture and Art
                        ◦ Architecture, Media and Print Culture
                        ◦ Critical Historiography and Social History

                          John Potvin

                          Professor

                          ◦ The cultures of modernism in art, design and fashion
                          ◦ Histories and theories of the interior
                          ◦ Sexuality, gender and design
                          ◦ Material and visual cultures of masculinity
                          ◦ Queer theory and feminism
                          ◦ The design and visual cultures of Orientalism
                          ◦ The bodies, space and time of design
                          ◦ Fashion, legacy and the spaces of display
                          ◦ Fashion and tailoring in the age of globalization

                            Johanne Sloan

                            Professor

                            ◦ Contemporary Art
                            ◦ Canadian Art since the 1960s
                            ◦ Landscape Art and Aesthetics
                            ◦ Visual Culture
                            ◦ Urban Art and Culture 

                              Steven Stowell

                              Associate Professor

                              ◦ Art and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy
                              ◦ Early Modern European Art (Late Middle Ages to Baroque)
                              ◦ Sacred Art
                              ◦ Early Modern Art Theory
                              ◦ Anthropology and Art History
                              ◦ Histories of Sex and Gender 

                                • Welcome
                                • Program
                                  • Coursework
                                  • Research Tutorial
                                  • Comprehensive Examinations
                                  • Doctoral Forum
                                  • Thesis
                                • Seminars
                                  • 2023-2024 Seminars
                                  • 2022-2023
                                  • Archive
                                  • Registration
                                • Faculty
                                  • Concordia University
                                  • Université de Montréal
                                  • Université du Québec à Montréal
                                • Students
                                  • Our Graduates
                                  • Student-led Initiatives
                                  • Professional Development
                                  • Funding
                                • Language
                                  • Protocols
                                  • Proficiency Requirements
                                  • Training
                                • Admission
                                  • Funding
                                  • What we look for in a research proposal
                                • News
                                  • Program Events
                                  • Speakers and Symposia
                                  • Launches and Openings
                                  • Calls for Papers
                                  • Workshops
                                • Contact
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