海角社区

Graduate Entrance Scholarships

The Beaverbrook Fund for Media@海角社区 has awarded graduate entrance scholarships to the following students:

2017

PhD Art History

Sarah Carter - "Uncanny Objects: Henry Fuseli and Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory"

Nicolas Holt - "Architectural Media / Mediatic Architecture"

MA Communication Studies

Emma Flavian - "Mapping Utopia's Horizon: Cartographies of Futurity and the Queer Multitudinous Audience in Black and in Color"

PhD Communication Studies

Jessica Fontaine - "Affective Economies and Politically Infused Acts of Pleasure in Canadian Pop Music Performances"

Alican Koc - "Wide Awake Woke: Deception, Conspiracy, and the Aesthetics of Consciousness After 9/11"

Liza Tom - " 'Global Queering': Trans Narratives in Globalised听Bangalore Media"

2016

PhD Art History

Joana Joachim - "In(hair)itance: Self-representation and the Use of African Hair in Contemporary Art By Black Female Artists in Canada and the United-States"

Evgeniya Makarova -"Totalitarian Temporality: The visual culture of mass-seduction, mass-subduction and mass-sedation"

Braden Lee Scott - "Building Spaces for the Gods: Mythic Mediterranean Architecture in Early Modern Art"

MA Art History

Jacqueline Atkin -听"Medial Representation and Relationships Between Visual Arts and Literature"

Zoya Dare -"Viewer as Player: Audience's Role in Contemporary Art"

PhD Communication Studies

Clinton Glenn -" "We Are People 鈥� Not Propaganda": Building Transnational LGBT Cultural Networks in the Baltic States, Belarus, and Ukraine"

Allyson Rogers -"The Music and Sound of the National Film Board鈥檚 Unit B, 1948-1964"

MA Communication Studies

Genevi猫ve Plumptre - "Digital Storytelling Techniques and the Dissemination of Traumatic Experiences"

Hannah Tollefson - "Ways of Seeing: Public Perceptions of Transparency and Accountability in the Adoption of Police Body-Worn Cameras"

2015

PhD Art History

Deborah Galante 鈥� 鈥淚mmigrant Artists in the New Multicultural Italy: The Experience of Migration Expressed in Visual and Performing Art鈥�

jake moore - "probing the spatial turn and the re-materialization of the work of art, as an arena for making legible the feminine other within contemporary art practices and their historiography"

PhD Communication Studies

Itzayana Gutierrez Arillo - "Exotic affections: Post-Colonial Fantasies in Latin American Comics 1930-1975"

Farah Atoui -"Abu Dhabi's Louvre, Guggenheim and Zayed National Museums: Mediating a 'New Global Arabism'"

Gabrielle Kielich - "Not-for-Profit: The Complex Role of Touring in Rock Musicians鈥� Careers"

MA Communication Studies

Itzel Danae Maldonado Dorantes - "Communicative Mediations in Postmodern Urban Mobility: Gender Asymmetries within the Reconfiguration of City Discourse"

2014

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Zoe de Luca - "Artist voices from the 1980s: vocality, technics, and performativity"

PhD Communication Studies

Ayanna Dozier -"The Abject as a Counter-Aesthetic in Queer Performance in Art and Visual Culture"

Jonathan Karpetz -"Competitive Labour Practice in Creative Economies"

MA Communication Studies

Katherine Hales - "Exploring the establishment of national identity through collective memory produced by cultural institutions"

Z. Isadora Hellegren -"Cypherpunks in an Era of Internet Surveillance:A Study of a Movement and its Methods"

Luam Kidane -"Contentious Art: Disruption and Decolonial Aesthetics in Black Radical Tradition"

Matti Turner - "Knowledge, Power, and Restraint: a Critical Analysis of agricultural seed technologies"

2013

PhD Communication Studies

Mauricio Delfin 鈥� 鈥淐ultural policies, networked technologies and civic engagement in Latin America鈥�

Ali Karimi 鈥� 鈥淭he Pursuit of Urban Modernity: Kabul City, 1870-2006鈥�

MA Communication Studies

Laura Dunn 鈥� 鈥淭he Impact and Reach of Humour in Feminist Media Online;鈥�

Hubert Alain 鈥� 鈥淏etter Versions of Us: on Human Enhancement and Biomedia;鈥�

Matthew Goerzen 鈥� 鈥淭owards a Productive Anonymity鈥�

Nicolas Maturo 鈥� 鈥淥ur Bandcamp Could Be Your Life: Precarious Labour in Contemporary Popular Music鈥�

PhD Art History

M. Lotfi Gouigah 鈥� 鈥淭ime-based Artistic Media and the Redefinitions of Difference鈥�

MA Art History

Isabelle Lynch 鈥� 鈥淲hat is Reality, Anyway? Rethinking the Visible in Contemporary Art鈥�

Pooja Sen 鈥� 鈥�Mission: Impossible: Espionage and the Imagined Geographies of Cold War America鈥�

2012

Li Cornfeld - "Mourning Becomes electronic: Death and Dying in Memorial Technology"

Frances Cullen - "Medium Specificity, Contemporary Art, and Temporal Representation"

Justin Lutz - "Southern Strategies: A Rapprochement of Gender, Space, and Transgression in the New World"

Victoria Simon - "Music Software: The Arbiters of Audio Culture"

Lorenzo Vargas - "Communication Processes for Settlement and Integration of Colombian IDPs and Refugees"

2011

Nathaniel Laywine -听 "Narratives of International Development and Identity Formation in Indigenous Communities"

Celina Van Dembroucke - "The recordatorios: Representations of Memory and Disappearance"

2010

Gretchen King - "Community Media Movements in the Middle East"

Guillaume Sirois - "Globalized artistic practices in the national cultural policy framework: towards a global governance for the arts sector"

2009

Katherine Borlongan - "Authoritarianism 2.0 : Censorship in Southeast Asia in the information age"

Oswald Michelin - "Examining the effect of new communication technologies on aboriginals in Canada's North"

Dylan Mulvin - "Sounds too learny: democratic aesthetics on the radio"

Errol Salamon - "Redefining the 鈥淧ublic鈥� in Canadian Public Service Broadcasting: Ontario and Quebec Communities, Youth Participation, and National Identity on CBC.ca"

2008

Christine Crowther - "Building Media Systems Post-Conflict 鈥� Integrating Public Service Broadcasting

Heather Gibb - "Turn-of-the-Century Arts & Entertainment Culture and the Montreal Urban Public sphere

Christopher Gutierrez -听 "On the Material Imagination of The State

Patricia Anne Schmidt - "Quebec Electric: Towards a Cultural Ecology of Contemporary Digital and Electronic Culture (Montreal in Europe and South America)"

Everett Wilson - "Public Intellectuals and Public Communication in Canada"

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Paulina Mickiewicz - "Cultural identity, nationalism and libraries: a close study of the Quebec case"

Heather Mills - "Transmedial commodity-worlds: Final Fantasy"

Yasmine Nachabe Taan - "Magazine publishing in Lebanon from听1943 to 1975"

2006

Tim Hecker - "Urban Noise: Signification and Political Subjectivity in 19th and early 20th century N.America"

Alison Jacques - "Coverage of female criminality and deviance in Canada's post-WWII tabloid press"

Normand Landry - "Radical and alternative media practices in Canada"

H茅l猫ne Laurin - "Journalistic accounts of heavy metal music"

Aysha Mawani - "Technology and citizenship; online identity formation"

Jaclyn Reid - "Visual Culture and Prostitution in the 19th Century, focusing on the intersection of commercial media and representations of women"

Graduate Research Fellowships for Continuing Doctoral Students

2017

Zo毛 De Luca - 鈥淵ou can go now鈥�: producing decolonial publics in a globalized art world

Ayanna Dozier - "Black Women on the Run: The Counter-Poetics of Black Women鈥檚 Cinematic and Performance Art Practices"

Itzayana Guti茅rrez Arillo - "Exotic Affections, Totalitarism and Cartooning in Latin American Comics: 1930-1975"

Alexandra Kelebay - "The Imperial Image Imprinted: Circulation, Materiality, and Translation in Kievan Coinage, c. 980-1054"

Braden Scott - "Building Spaces for the Gods: Maarten van Heemskerck鈥檚 Ancient Mediterranean"

2016

Shana Cooperstein - "Reading Between the Lines: Post-Academic Drawing Pedagogy in Nineteenth-Century France"

Ayanna Dozier - "Archival Hauntings: Animating the Histories and Archives of Black Women鈥檚 Post Civil Rights Experimental Cinema"

2015

Tawny Andersen - "Performativity as Material Praxis"

Shana Cooperstein - "Reading Between the Lines: Post-Academic Drawing Pedagogy in Nineteenth-Century France"

Li Cornfeld - "Stages of Technology"

Lotfi Gouigah - "Opaque Media and Performative Technics: Communication Theory and New Media Art Criticism"

Victoria Simon - "Mobile Musical Screens and the App Economy"

Celina van Dembroucke - "Pics or it didn鈥檛 happen: how photography delivers a message: The case of amateurs and photojournalists in Latin America"

2014

Tawny Andersen - "Performativity as Critical Praxis"

Shana Cooperstein - Archival research, Paris, France

Li Cornfield - "Products in Production at International CES"

Nathaniel Laywine - "Solidarity and Global Citizenship: International Volunteerism and Service Learning in Peru"

Isabelle Masse - "M茅dium et sensation: Histoires crois茅es dans le portrait fran莽ais du XVIIIe si猫cle"

Maryse Ouellet - "Le sublime par l'image : contemporan茅it茅 du sublime dans l'art actuel"

Jonathan Rouleau - "The Cultural Nocturnalization of the Marconi-Alexandra Neighborhood in Montreal: Implications and Issues"

Victoria Simon - "Anybody can be a Musician: Transparency and the Discursive Construction of Touch in Interfaces for Music Composition"

Abi Shapiro - "Home Making and Making Homes: Intersections of Feminist Art and Architecture in the 1970s"

Samine Tabatabaei - "Contemporary Art of Iran"

2013

Jonathan Rouleau - "The cultural role of universities in Montreal: reframing the university-city approach"

Abigail Shapiro - ''Reading Politics in Process: Historicizing Feminist Artists' Notebooks, 1960 - 1980"

Guillaume Sirois - "Making Judgement on the Arts in a Globalized World: the Case of the Venice Biennale"

Samine Tabatabaei - "Confines of Art Historical Narratives"

2012

Caroline Bem - "'Death Proof' and the Cinematic Diptych"

Rafico Ruiz - "Sites of Communication: The Grenfell Mission of Newfoundland and Labrador"

Errol Salamon - "Media Labour Disputes and Social Change in Canada: An Institutional and Policy History of the Present"

Cheryl Thompson - "The Racialization of Beauty Culture, Hollywood Films, and Advertising, 1920-1939"

2011

Caroline Bem - "The Cinematic Diptych: From Writing Tablets to System Reboots

Cheryl Thompson - "The Rise of Western Beauty Culture, Black Hair Products, and
Canada's Ladies' Magazine, Chatelaine 1860s to 1990s"

Errol Salamon - "Working Community Media Labour Disputes: Community Radio Workers' Lockout Blog Take Back Our Radio, 2008-2009"

Heather Gibb - "The Rialto Theatre and the Challenge to Preservation"

Christine Crowther - "Post-conflict Journalism Assistance: Finding a Complement to "Social" Peacebuilding"

Guillaume Sirois - "Building the global metaculture: the UNESCO and the narrative of the universality of human culture"

Rafico Ruiz - "The Grenfell Mission: extractive economies, labour patterns, and practices of social reform"

2010

Caroline Bem - "The Cinematic Diptych: From Writing Tablets to System Reboots"

Errol Salamon - "Labour demand: Worker struggles in North American public service media"

Cheryl Thompson - "Sale and Runaway Advertisements of the Halifax Gazette, 1752-1830: Black Bodies, Racial Stereotypes, and the Marketing of Servitude"

2009

Chris Gutierrez - "Fashioning the Veil: Bodies, Borders and the Multi-Cultural State"

Allison Jacques - "Not only the Lonely: Personal Advertisements in Justice Weekly, 1946-72"

2008

Neal Thomas - "Postmetaphysical Informatics"

Lalai Manjikian - "Spaces of Contention: Deconstructing Social Exclusion/Inclusion and Everyday Refugee Experiences in Montr茅al"

Dwayne Avery - "The Future is Behind You: The Reclamation of Place in Michel Gondry鈥檚 Be Kind Rewind"

Jorge Frozzini - "Understanding Intimacy: The Cultural and Ethical Implications of Intimacy in our World"

2007

Genevi猫ve Bonin - "Licence renewal accountability: The CRTC versus radio broadcasters"

Richard Hink - "The limits of the knowledge society: representation, risk and the revenge of the material economy"

Aysha Mawani - "Cultural diversity: A budding global policy platform"

Tobias C. van Veen - "Technics of disappearance: rave culture vs. the State, as unheard by the media in Vancouver, B.C., 1990-2000"

2006

Ali Mohammed - "The growing impact of alternative media on traditional news and emerging democracy in the Arab World"

Jeremy Morris - "MySpace.com: Political economy and policy on social network sites"

Liz Springate - "Stories of resistance: Digital storytelling and anti-violence activism"

Gregory Taylor - "Co-regulation and Canadian media"

Samantha Thrift - "Canadian feminism meets neo-liberalism: The 1984 NAC leaders鈥� debate"

Arts Graduate Research Fellowships

2017

Shana Cooperstein - 鈥淩eading Between the Lines: Post-Academic Drawing Pedagogy in Nineteenth-Century France,鈥� Department of Art History and Communication Studies

Vincenza Mazzeo - "SPEAKing a History of 鈥淢edical Feminism鈥� and Women鈥檚 Health Activism in South Africa, 1982-2000," Department of History

2016

Darcie DeAngelo - "To Love a Rat in a Cambodian Minefield:
Subjects and objects in a post-war context," Department of Anthropology

2015

Qiuyu Jiang - "The Ebola Epidemic and the African Community in Guangzhou: An Analysis of the Chinese Media Response to Ebola," Department of Anthropology

2014

M. Max Hamon - "Louis Riel and Red River Publics: The Rise and Fall of an Indigenous Public Sphere," Department of History

Zygmunt Alexander Mochnacki - "Open Data City: The Politics of Civic Hacking in Toronto," Department of Sociology

2013

Nicolas Barber 鈥� 鈥淧articipatory Videomaking and Indigenous Identity in Sub-Saharan Africa,鈥� Department of Anthropology

Saoussan Askar 鈥� 鈥淎n Analysis of the Discourses on HIV/AIDS in Popular Arab News Media,鈥� Department of Sociology

Professional Development Grants

2017-2018

Anne-Sophie Garcia - New Cities Foundation, Montreal, QC

Emma Flavian - Artesian Films, Montreal, QC

Itzayana Gutierrez - Cabaret Commons Critical Project/Cabaret Commons Exhibition Place

Evgeniya Makarova, - Central Institute for Art History (Zentralinstitut f眉r Kunstgeschichte), Munich, Germany

Sofia Misenheimer - Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), 海角社区, Montreal, QC

Jonthan Rouleau - 4001 Berri Arts Hub, Montreal, QC

Sophie Toupin - World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) , Montreal, QC