Congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate Krista Ulujuk Zawadski聽on being nominated as a . Krista is an Arctic anthropologist, curator and Inuk researcher. Her doctoral project focuses on Qatiktalik (Cape Fullerton) as a 鈥渘exus of colonial encounters鈥� and offers 鈥漚 (re)interpretation of known history 鈥� written and oral 鈥� through Inuit eyes and voices.鈥� 聽Krista鈥檚 doctoral research is being supervised by Cultural Mediations professor and Canada Research Chair holder .
Recipient of a Polar Northern Resident Scholarship and an Inuit Cultural Repatriation Award, Krista is an engaged and prolific Inuk curator, with an impressive body of exhibitions and collaborations spanning the new Inuit Art Centre,聽Qaumajuqat, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (INUA), The National Art Center (Breaking Ground), Canadian Heritage (Echoing the Land) 聽and the 杏吧原创 University Art Gallery (Nuvisi: Threading Our Beads at Qatiktalik).
Nominations for a聽聽are highly prestigious, with only three finalists selected nation-wide, The award recognizes 鈥渙utstanding achievement by someone who currently holds a聽SSHRC聽doctoral scholarship or fellowship or postdoctoral fellowship鈥�, in areas of academic excellence, research and knowledge mobilization and leadership聽potential.
Congratulations on this tremendous achievement, Krista!