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They are Director of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.protohyve.com\/\">PROTOHYVE: Centre for Innovative Research-Creation<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveillart.ca\/\">surveillART: care-laboratory for research-creation and disruptive exhibitionism<\/a>, at 杏吧原创 University on the unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Algonquin nation.<\/p>\n<p>St\u00e9fy\u2019s research examines research-creation as a methodology for knowledge production and fact-based storytelling in so called Canada. \u00a0Their current research looks at care-laboration and care-centric research-creation; surveillance and pleasure, and settler colonial logics of rural land management, territory and property.<\/p>\n<p>Their scholarly work takes the form of performance, multi-media interventions, 3D printing, installation, video art, and various digital and physical curatorial projects. Their research-creation has been exhibited at the Stratford Gallery (Stratford); Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre (Kingston); Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts (Kingston); White Water Gallery (North Bay) and others. St\u00e9fy is a member of the performance duo<a href=\"https:\/\/www.camhunters.org\/\">\u00a0Cam Hunters<\/a>\u00a0with Dr. Julia Chan from the University of Calgary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cross Listed for Graduate Supervision<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Communication and Media Studies<\/li>\n<li>Public History<\/li>\n<li>Cultural Mediations<\/li>\n<li>Digital Humanities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Current Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>watching territory: Creative Interventions into Examining Surveillance in Rural Northern Ontario: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveillart.ca\/watching-territory\">https:\/\/www.surveillart.ca\/watching-territory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surveillant Pleasures: Using Research-Creation to Explore the Generative Potential of Surveillance (with Dr. Julian Chan, University of Calgary): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.camhunters.org\/surveillantpleasures\">https:\/\/www.camhunters.org\/surveillantpleasures<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhantom Intimacies: Creative Interventions into Visualizing Disability and Queer Relationality.\u201d\u00a0 Artwork. City of Kingston Arts Fund funded:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefymcknight.com\/phantom-intimacies\">https:\/\/www.stefymcknight.com\/phantom-intimacies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Select Past Projects\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAqtion Arqhive: Tracing 2SLGBTQIA+ Labour Activism in Katarokwi-Kingston.\u201d\u00a0SSHRC PEG funded (Principal Investigator) (co-Applicant Dr. Morgan Oddie):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/4f0fc725cd5e4088bbe8740a2cfff183\">https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/4f0fc725cd5e4088bbe8740a2cfff183<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPROTOHYVE: Centre for Innovative Research-Creation in so called Canada.\u201d:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.protohyve.com\">https:\/\/www.protohyve.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Storytelling with Indigenous Youth and Post-Secondary Students: Youth Co-creation of a Vision for Sustainable Development as a Strategy toward Reconciliation. (Principal Investigator Rick Colbourne):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigenousyouthstories.com\">https:\/\/www.indigenousyouthstories.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Select Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chan, Julia and St\u00e9fy McKnight. (2024). \u201cPleasures of Surveillance.\u201d Editorial.\u00a0Surveillance & Society:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ojs.library.queensu.ca\/index.php\/surveillance-and-society\/article\/view\/17261\">https:\/\/ojs.library.queensu.ca\/index.php\/surveillance-and-society\/article\/view\/17261<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chan, Julia and St\u00e9fy McKnight. (2023). \u201cDisruptive Exhibitionism: A performance methodology for surveillance art.\u201d\u00a0Media Practice and Education. Taylor & Francis Online:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/25741136.2023.2209685\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/25741136.2023.2209685<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bahng, Sojung, S. McKnight, and J. McCormack. (2022). \u201cA comparative study of practice-based research and research-creation in media art: Comparing two doctoral studies in Australia and Canada.\u201d\u00a0ISEA Proceedings:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sojungb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ISEA_PBRvsRc_Bahng_McKnight.pdf\">https:\/\/sojungb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ISEA_PBRvsRc_Bahng_McKnight.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McKnight, St\u00e9fy. (2020). \u201cCreative Research Methodologies for Surveillance Studies\u201d,\u00a0Surveillance & Society:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ojs.library.queensu.ca\/index.php\/surveillance-and-society\/article\/view\/13530\">https:\/\/ojs.library.queensu.ca\/index.php\/surveillance-and-society\/article\/view\/13530<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Select Research Funding Awarded<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2024: SSHRC Insight Grant (Principal Investigator)<\/p>\n<p>2022: Ontario Research Fund: Research Infrastructure (Principal Investigator)<\/p>\n<p>2022: Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund (Principal Investigator)<\/p>\n<p>2022: New Frontiers in Research Fund (Principal Nominated Investigator with Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Julia Chan, University of Calgary)<\/p>\n<p>2022: Individual Project Fund, City of Kingston Arts Fund (Artist)<\/p>\n<p>2021: Partnership Engage Grant, Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (Principal Investigator with Co-Applicant Dr. Morgan Oddie, Public Service Alliance of Canada)<\/p>\n<p>2021: Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (Principal Investigator)<\/p>\n<p>2021: Multidisciplinary Research Catalyst Fund (MRCF), 杏吧原创 University (Co-Applicant with Principal Investigator Rick Colbourne)<\/p>\n<p>2018-2021 (deferred 2021): (PI) Joseph-Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (Principal Investigator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Select Honours\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2024: Research Achievement Award, 杏吧原创 University, Ottawa, ON<\/p>\n<p>2022: Research Excellence Award, Faculty of Public Affairs, 杏吧原创 University, Ottawa, ON<\/p>\n<p>2019: Union Activist of the Year, Kingston District Labour Council, Kingston, ON<\/p>\n<p>2017: Honorable mention, Inaugural bi-annual Surveillance Studies Network Art Fund Prize<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic Training<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2020: PhD, Cultural Studies Program, Queen\u2019s University, Kingston, ON.<\/p>\n<p>2016: Master of Art, Cultural Studies Program, Queen\u2019s University, Kingston, ON.<\/p>\n<p>2014: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) and minor in Gender Equality and Social Justice, Nipissing University, North Bay, ON.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stefymcknight.com\">www.stefymcknight.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","email_address":"stefy.mcknight@carleton.ca","phone_number":"613-520-2600","phone_extension":"7423","mobile_number":"","department_list":"school-of-journalism","on_campus":"yes","select_building":"river","office_number":"4105","personal_website":"","twitter_profile":"","linkedin_profile":"","youtube_channel":"","pinterest_profile":"","facebook_profile":"","instagram_profile":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu-people\/13410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu-people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu-people"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu-people\/13410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24005,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu-people\/13410\/revisions\/24005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"people-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people-type?post=13410"},{"taxonomy":"areas-of-expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/areas-of-expertise?post=13410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}