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Concordia University

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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
                                • 2022-2023
                                • 2021-2022 Seminars
                                • 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
                              • FR