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Professor Tonya Davidson is available for graduate student supervision. Please contact her for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Areas of Interest<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As a sociologist I am broadly interested in urban spaces, public memory, nostalgia, popular culture, and Canadian identity. Specifically, I have spent many years studying the social lives of statues in Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an instructor, I am deeply invested in improving my teaching practice and contributing to the culture of teaching excellence at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´. I have taught introduction to sociology every semester since I began teaching in 2010 (and I love it)! I take being students\u2019 first exposure to sociology very seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have taught courses on popular culture, research methods, social class and inequality, gender, social theory, and city life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courses<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

SOC1 1001: Introduction to Sociology I
SOCI 1002: Introduction to Sociology II
SOCI 3004: Qualitative Research: Approaches and Strategies
FYSM 1506A: The Sociology of Ottawa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Books and Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tours Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging<\/a>. (2024). Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seasonal Sociology<\/em><\/a> (2020) (co-edited with Ondine Park). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summer in Cottage Country: Expectations and Experiences of Canadian Nature (2020). In T. Davidson and O. Park (Eds.), Seasonal Sociology<\/em>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Social Lives of Statues (2017). In Albanese, P, L. Tepperman and E. Alexander (Eds), Reading Sociology 3rd edition<\/em>. Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davidson, Tonya, Ondine Park and Rob Shields (Eds), Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire and Hope <\/em>(2011), Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nostalgia and Postmemories of a Lost Place: Actualizing \u2018My Virtual Homeland In Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire and Hope<\/em> (2011) Tonya Davidson, Ondine Park and Rob Shields. (Eds.), Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journal Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Narratives of National Belonging at Ottawa Monuments: The Canadian Tribute to Human Rights and Enclave: The Women\u2019s Monument. Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies<\/em>. No. 36 (2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reassembling Ottawa: Editorial Introduction (with Nicholas Scott) Canadian Journal of Urban Research<\/em> Summer Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1-7 (Summer 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mica, Pedagogy, Defacement: Learning from Canada’s National War Memorial, The Public Historian<\/em>, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 42\u201361 (May 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mourning Stompin\u2019 Tom. Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. <\/em>No. 35 (2016). 
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Imperial Nostalgia, Social Ghosts, and Canada\u2019s National War Memorial. Space and Culture, <\/em>May 2016; vol. 19, 2: pp. 177-191.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Scout\u2019s Life: English-Canadian Nostalgia, Colonialism, and Aboriginality in Ottawa Journal of Canadian Studies, <\/em>(2014) vol. 48 (3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remembering Houses: The Role of Domestic Architecture in the Structuring of Memory Space<\/em> and Culture, <\/em>(2009) vol. 12 (3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStigma and the Single Girl: Performing Gender, Sex, and the City” Studies in Symbolic Interaction<\/em>, (2007) vol. 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22230,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Tonya","cu_people_last_name":"Davidson","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[39],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-3981","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-sociology-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor, Sociology Undergraduate Program Coordinator","cu_people_degree":"PhD (University of Alberta)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"tonya.davidson@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"2087","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30194,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3981\/revisions\/30194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}