Congratulations to Cultural Mediations alumna,听Dr. Trina听Cooper-Bolam, who was recently awarded a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Her postdoctoral research project,听Storied Transformations: Decolonizing Inherited Space through Memorial Performance, builds upon her doctoral work at 杏吧原创.
Responding to the priorities of Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association, the Survivors of the Shingwauk Indian Residential School,听Storied Transformations听is a research-creation and pedagogical project of transdisciplinary Indigenous/settler research collaboration that investigates and reveals the evidentiary landscape of the Shingwauk Indian Industrial and Residential Schools. Using land-based learning, praxiological museology, and other cultural, creative, and performative methods developed for the project鈥檚 experiential field-schools exchange program,听Storied Transformations听deploys pedagogies from diverse disciplines to engage students in building and supporting Survivor-driven, technologically-enhanced, in situ interpretation, memorialization, and Indigenous place-(re)making.
Dr. Cooper Bolam will be undertaking her fellowship at Concordia University鈥檚 .