Contributors
- Contributors
Carolina Cambre is a doctoral candidate in the department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta in the Theoretical, Cultural, and International (TCI) Studies stream. Her doctoral research examines the cultural work of one image in particular, the famous photograph of Che Guevara by Alberto Korda. Her areas of interest are: Critical pedagogy, Visual communication and phenomenological semiotics, discourse analysis, social justice in education, and Indigenous epistemologies and research.
Mike Evans is an associate professor and head, of the Department of Community, Culture, and Global Studies, UBC Okanagan. He has been working closely with members of the Métis Community in BC for over a decade; together with Elders and community leaders in Prince George he put together a Métis Studies curriculum, ands a number of publications including What it is to be a Métis (Evans et al. 1999), A Brief History, of the Short Life, of the Island Cache (Evans et al. 2004). He is currently completing two participatory video projects with the Métis Community.
Stephen Foster is an associate professor in the Department of Creative Studies, UBC Okanagan. He is a media-based and video artist whose work addresses issues of identity politics. The recipient of a large Research/Creation Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for exploring interactive and experimental approaches to documentary, Stephen is also the coordinator of the CanWest Global Centre for Artists’ Video in the Department of Creative Studies.
Christopher Fletcher is a medical and ecological anthropologist with more than a decade of intercultural and interdisciplinary research experience in northern Canadian Aboriginal communities. He is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. His research interests include culture, health and healing, “equivocal illnesses,” the imbrications of place, illness and culture, visual and sensory anthropology generally. He directs the Anthropology Visualization Laboratory at the University of Alberta.
Steven High is Canada Research Chair in Public History at Concordia University. He is lead researcher in the Life Stories Community-University Research Alliance project ( www.lifestoriesmontreal.ca/www.histoiredeviemontreal.ca ) which is comprised of 40 university based researchers and community co-applicants as well as 18 community partners from Montreal’s Rwandan, Cambodian, Haitian, and Jewish communities. They are recording the life stories of 500 people displaced by war, genocide and other human rights abuses, and exploring ways to incorporate these stories into performance, radio, documentary filmmaking, the arts, the classroom, and in digital environments. [End Page 261]
Nicole Lang enseigne l’histoire acadienne et canadienne au campus d’Edmundston de l’Université de Moncton. Elle est également membre du projet ARUC Histoire du travail au Nouveau-Brunswick.
Elizabeth Miller is a professor, a documentary filmmaker, and a community media artist with 15 years of experience working on collaborative media projects. She teaches at Concordia University and is a co-founder of the Concordia Documentary Centre. Her newest project involves refugee youth in Montreal.
Lisa Ndejuru is a psychotherapist and works as a clinical counselor in Montreal. She studied religions, psychology and theology and hopes to enroll in the coming fall to pursue a doctorate in clinical psychology. Lisa is committed to wellness and joy, soulwork and love, art and creativity, and family and community. She is co-applicant to the Cura Lifestories project and represents Isangano, the Rwandan youth group ( www.isangano.ca ) and Umurage the Rwandan cultural centre ( www.umurage.ca ).
Kristen (Krissy) O’Hare is a PhD student in the History Department at Concordia University where she is also affiliated with the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. Her research blends oral history, digital storytelling, and geography in an examination of Canada’s deindustrialized tourist miningscapes.
Joy Parr is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Risk in the Department of Geography at the University of Western Ontario. Her book, Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments and the Everyday, Canada, 1953–2003, will appear in 2009.
Robert Storey teaches in the Sociology Department and the Labour Studies Programme at McMaster University.
Pamela Sugiman is a professor of Sociology at Ryerson University and is currently writing a book about Japanese Canadian women’s memories of the wartime internment. She is...
