Tonya Davidson teaches sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at 杏吧原创 University. Her research focuses on monuments, public memory, various forms of public nostalgia, and Ottawa. She regularly teaches Introduction to Sociology, and a first-year seminar called 鈥渢he Sociology of Ottawa.鈥� She has most recently published . (2024) and (2020 and co-edited with Ondine Park). Seasonal Sociology won the 2021 American Association of Publishers award for best textbook in the social sciences. Tonya is currently working on a book project with David Dean, which will offer analyses of all of the monuments in the National Capital Region. 听
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. (2024). Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
(2020) (co-edited with Ondine Park). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
“Summer in Cottage Country: Expectations and Experiences of Canadian Nature” (2020). In T. Davidson and O. Park (Eds.), Seasonal Sociology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
“The Social Lives of Statues” (2017). In Albanese, P, L. Tepperman and E. Alexander (Eds), Reading Sociology 3rd edition. Oxford University Press.
Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire and Hope (2011).听Tonya Davidson, Ondine Park and Rob Shields. (Eds.), Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
“Nostalgia and Postmemories of a Lost Place: Actualizing 鈥楳y Virtual Homeland.” In Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire and Hope听(2011) Tonya Davidson, Ondine Park and Rob Shields. (Eds.), Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
“Narratives of National Belonging at Ottawa Monuments: The Canadian Tribute to Human Rights” and “Enclave: The Women鈥檚 Monument.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. No. 36 (2016).
“Reassembling Ottawa: Editorial Introduction (with Nicholas Scott).” Canadian Journal of Urban Research听Summer Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1-7 (Summer 2016).
“Mica, Pedagogy, Defacement: Learning from Canada鈥檚 National War Memorial.” The Public Historian, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 42鈥�61 (May 2016).
“Mourning Stompin鈥� Tom.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies.听No. 35 (2016).
“Imperial Nostalgia, Social Ghosts, and Canada鈥檚 National War Memorial.”听Space and Culture,听May 2016; vol. 19, 2: pp. 177-191.
“A Scout鈥檚 Life: English-Canadian Nostalgia, Colonialism, and Aboriginality.” In Ottawa Journal of Canadian Studies,听(2014) vol. 48 (3).
“Remembering Houses: The Role of Domestic Architecture in the Structuring of Memory.” Space听and Culture,听(2009) vol. 12 (3).