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Ph. D. Candidate, Sociology: September 2005- present
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
M.A. Sociology: August 2005
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
B.A. Anthropology: June 2002
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
Academic Publications
“Nostalgia and Postmemories of a Lost Place: Actualizing ‘My Virtual Homeland” In Ecologies of
Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire and Hope (Eds). Tonya Davidson, Ondine Park and Rob Shields. In
press with Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Davidson, Tonya, Ondine Park, and Rob Shields. (accepted). "Introduction." In Ecologies of Affect:
Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Shields, Rob, Ondine Park, Tonya Davidson, and contributors. (accepted). "Conclusion." In Ecologies
of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
“Remembering Houses: The Role of Domestic Architecture in the Structuring of Memory” Space and
Culture, 2009.
“Stigma and the Single Girl: Performing Gender, Sex, and the City" Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 2007.
Book Review: Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities, edited by Cheryl Teelucksingh (2006).
Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Space and Culture, 8 2007; vol. 10: pp. 373 - 375.
Book Review: Claims to Memory: Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean,
Catherine Reinhardt (2006) New York: Berghahn Books Canadian Review of Sociology, 2007.
Book Review: Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy Space and Culture, 8 2006; vol. 9:
pp. 326 - 328.
Popular Press Publications
“Our Labouring Capital: Canal Diggers, Matchstick Girls and Big Joe Mufferaw” Canadian Dimension
Magazine, Winnipeg, 2010.
“Cupcakes, Gender, Nostalgia: the commodification and consumption of girlhoods past” with Ondine
Park, Briarpatch Magazine, Regina, 2010.
“Hot Architecture” In Das Universum Nebenan Schoeppingen:Stiftung Schoeppingen, 2010.
“Letter From the Editor” Curb Magazine, Edmonton, 2009.
"Leamington: Bloom or Bust" with Katherine Davidson, Canadian Dimension, Winnipeg, 2009.
“Loft Space” Take Vol. 4.1, Edmonton, 2009.
“Searching for Unicorns in Ottawa: The Eternal Seduction of the British Empire” Take Vol. 3.2,
Edmonton, 2009.
“The Shipbuilder, Dog River and Other Road-Side Delights: How I learned to stop in Saskatchewan”
Briarpatch Magazine, Regina, 2008.
“Destinations: Big Things on the Side of the Road” Legacy Magazine, Edmonton, 2008.
“The Calgary Project” Review Legacy Magazine, Edmonton, 2007.
“Running Toward Home” Review. Legacy Magazine Edmonton, 2007.
"Stephanie Davidson: A Sensory Conversation" Catalogue Essay for exhibition Disonancias Tour
Donostia-San Sebastian Spain, 2007.
“Haunting Edmonton” Review-in-Brief, Latitude 53 Magazine 7.3, Edmonton, 2006
“The World’s Largest Corn Maze” Take Vol 1.2, Edmonton, 2006.
“Death of Camp” Take Vol 1.1, Edmonton, 2006.
Co-founder and co-editor of Take Magazine: the publication of the SGSA of the University of Alberta,
2006.
Conference Presentations
“Speaking to the Angels: Unmapping Grief, Gender, Queens and Heroines in Ottawa’s Built
Environment” Presented at: The Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers,
Washington, April, 2010.
“Affectionate Design: Love Letters to Berlin”
Presented at: Psychogeographies of Possibility: Re-imagining Spaces in Critical Times, Guelph,
November, 2009.
“Scouting for Aboriginality in Ottawa’s Urban Spaces: Unmapping as Methodological Practice”
Presented at: Canadian Association of Cultural Studies, Montreal, October, 2009.
“Bodies of Memory in Bronze: Unmapping Memory and Belonging in the National War Memorial”
Presented at: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Ottawa, May, 2009.
Invited panelist to “Women’s Bodies in a Public History Context” Canadian Association of Women in
Public History, Ottawa, November, 2008.
“Working Stories: An Autoethnography of my Virtual Homeland”
Presented at: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Vancouver, June, 2008.
“The First Great Canadian: Expanding Narratives of Belonging Through Stone Bodies”
Presented at: American Association of Geographers, Boston, April, 2008.
“Martha Stewart: ‘Camp’ Cupcake” Presented at: Canadian Association of Cultural Studies, Edmonton,
October, 2007. * featured on the radio show Adament Eve
“A House History Project: Grappling with the role of Domestic Architecture in the Structuring of Memory”
Presented at: On Mobilities SGSA Conference at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. May, 2007
“Traces and Translations:Actualizing a Hereditary Bruise”
Presented at: the University of British Columbia, Sociology Department's conference: Shifts, Ruptures
and Dissonances: Liminal Spaces of the Social Vancouver British Columbia. May, 2007
“My Virtual Homeland: The Kapetanovo Diaspora Project”
Presented at: Canadian Studies Student Forum: Multiculturalism, Aboriginalities and Diasporas:
Canadian Identities at Risk or Gaining Strength? Vancouver, October 2006.
“Big Things on the Side of the Road: Road-Side Enticements in an Era of Supermodernity”
Presented at: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Learneds,York University, Toronto,
June 2006. *featured in the National Post coverage of Congress
“My Virtual Homeland: The Kapetanovo Diaspora Project”
Presented at: Fear, Space and the Subject of Violence, University of Alberta, Edmonton, May 2006.
“Feminist Zine Pirate: Rearticulating Femininity and Feminism in the 3rd Wave”
Presented at: W David Pierce Research Colloquium, University of Alberta, Edmonton, November 2005.
“The Perzine is Political: Feminist Zines, Style and the Third Wave”
Presented at: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Learneds, London, June 2005.
“Love it/ Shove it: Third Wave Feminisms, Popular Culture and Consumption”
Presented at: Social Sciences Graduate Symposium, University of Victoria, February 2005.
“Feminist Zines: Cutting and Pasting A New Wave”
Presented at: Celebrating a Legacy: A Teach-In on Institutional Ethnography, OISE, Toronto, October 2004.
“Race and Cultural Space: Immortalizing Canada’s Multicultural Past”
Presented at: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Learneds, Winnipeg, June 2004.
“Relocating Woman: Embodiment and the Postmodern/ Feminist Debate”
Presented at: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourses Of/ Against Incorporation and Corp-
orealization, Victoria, March 2004.
“Speed Dating: The Presentation of Self in Five Minutes” with Jason Manett
Presented at: Couch-Stone Winter Symposium, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction,
Vancouver, February 2004.
Teaching Experience
Instructor
SOC 300: Sociology of Gender, Summer 2009, University of Alberta
Teaching Assistant
SOC 300: Sociology of Gender, January 2008, University of Alberta
SOC 212: Social Theory: September 2007, University of Alberta
SOC 301: Sociology of Gender: January 2007, University of Alberta
SOC 212: Social Theory: September 2006, University of Alberta
SOC 212: Social Theory: January 2006, University of Alberta
SOC 301: Sociology of Gender: September 2005, University of Alberta
SOC 202: Social Problems: January 2005, University of Victoria
SOC 306: Deviance and Crime: September 2004, University of Victoria
SOC 390: Media and Popular Culture: September 2004, University of Victoria
SOC 202: Social Problems: January 2004, University of Victoria
SOC 100: Introduction to Sociology: September 2003, University of Victoria
HUMR 100: Introduction to Human Rights: January 2002, Carleton University
Guest Lecturer
WST 300: Introduction to Women’s Studies: January 2006, University of Alberta
SOC 302: Sociology of Gender: November 2005, University of Alberta
SOC 390: Media and Popular Culture: November 2004, University of Victoria
Prizes/ Awards Received
2009- nominee, “Gold Saskatchewan Award” Western Canada Magazine Association for: “The
Shipbuilder, Dog River and Other Road-Side Delights: How I learned to stop in Saskatchewan”
Briarpatch Magazine, Regina, 2008
2009- Queen Elizabeth II Doctoral Scholarship
2006- Provost Doctoral Scholarship renewal, University of Alberta, Graduate Assistantship
2005- Provost Doctoral Entrance Scholarship, University of Alberta, Graduate Assistantship
2004- Graduate Tuition Fellowship, University of Victoria
2003- Roy Watson Graduate Scholarship, University of Victoria, Graduate Tuition Fellowship
2002- B.A. Highest Honours, Carleton University
2001- Dean’s Honour List, Carleton University, A. Davidson Dunton Scholarship
2000- Dean’s Honour List, Carleton University, George Fierheller Scholarship
1999- Dean’s Honour List, Carleton University, Gordon Robertson Scholarships
1998- Carleton University Entrance Scholarship, Carleton University
Employment
2009-present; _Senior Editor: Curb Magazine
_____________Edit a magazine for The City-Region Studies Centre at the University of Alberta
2008-present; _Animator: Canadian Museum of Civilization
_____________Give educational programs to visiting school groups from Grade 3-9 on a variety of
_____________subjects: Settlers of the Ottawa Valley, Canada’s First Peoples, The Development of
_____________the Canadian West
2008-present; _Editorial Assistant: Space and Culture
_____________Pre-review incoming articles to the journal
_____________Find appropriate reviewers for potential journal articles
2005-2008; ___Teacher’s Assistant: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
_____________Plan and execute tutorials for small groups of students in the courses Social Theory
_____________and Sociology of Gender
_____________Mark assignments and exams
2005-2008; ___Research Assistant: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
_____________Provide literature reviews for various research projects
02-08.2005; __ Research and Communications Assistant: Ministry of Aboriginal, Community and
_____________and Women’s Services, Government of British Columbia
_____________02-05.2005; Immigration Branch
_____________05-08.2005; Stop the Violence Branch
_____________Compiled labour market research
_____________Drafted briefing notes
_____________Developed exit surveys
_____________Worked on website development
2003-2005; ___Teacher’s Assistant: University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
_____________Marked assignments and exams for various Sociology courses
2002-2003; ___English Teacher: 8Plus English School, Sanok, Poland
_____________Taught English to students from 8 years old to adult
_____________Planned lessons, assessed improvement
_____________Edited the school magazine, “Flabbergast”
_____________Assisted in preparation of school play
2002-2003; ___Museum Educator: Canada Agriculture Museum, Ottawa, Ontario
_____________Taught educational programs to school groups on diverse topics regarding agriculture
_____________Delivered guided tours, birthday parties and special event programming
_____________Assisted in training new interpreters
Community Involvement
Blogger for Spacing Ottawa: www.spacingottawa.ca, and Yolk Soc: www.yolksoc.blogspot.com
Co-founder and co-editor of Take Magazine: the publication of the SGSA of the University of Alberta,
2006- present
Graduate Students’ Association, Sociology Representative: 2005-2006, Edmonton, Alberta
Space and Culture Reading Group, Member: September 2005-present, Edmonton, Alberta
Sociology Graduate Students’ Association Conference Organizing Committee, Member: December
2005- May 2006
Girl Guides Leader: September 2003- June 2004, Victoria, British Columbia
Languages
- I have a working knowledge of reading and speaking French
- I have studied Swahili, Polish and German