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THE TEAM

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CURRENT CORE TEAM

Aggie Frasunkiewicz
EAHR Graduate Coordinator and Administrator
Aggie is an Art History MA candidate at Concordia University. She is a writer and researcher based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). She holds a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from OCAD University, where she led the Journal of Visual and Critical Studies. Her research explores feminism and female artists working in the Polish People’s Republic, and how a distinct, homegrown feminism in Poland nurtures contemporary feminist movements in Poland. Aggie has worked in both archival and art education fields at the Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation and Oakville Galleries.

Karina Roman Justo
EAHR Graduate Coordinator and Administrator
Karina is an Art History MA candidate at Concordia University. She is also an emerging writer, researcher and educator based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). She holds a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from OCAD University, where she was the recipient of the Graduation Award in 2020. There she also led the Journal of Visual & Critical Studies. She has published reviews in diverse publications like C Magazine and the Senses and Society Journal. Karina was the education assistant at the Textile Museum of Canada (2020-2021). Karina’s research is led by a decolonial critical lens.

Naimah Amin
EAHR Undergraduate Coordinator and Administrator
Naimah is an undergraduate student in the Painting and Drawing program at Concordia. In her practice she is interested in how cultural objects carry different meanings throughout lifetimes as they, with the body, form together the focal point of her pieces. Her paintings and drawings explore the fine dialectic of identity and memory, therefore photographs are an integral tool to image-making. To situate her practice, Naimah is interested in learning about contemporary racialized artists and examining their multi-faceted identities under a decolonial lens.

Sarah Piché
EAHR Undergraduate Exhibitions Coordinator and Administrator
Sarah Piché is an undergraduate student in the art history and studio arts program at Concordia. Her art practice is primarily oil painting, with a particular focus on depicting multifaceted intimacy. Sarah believes that art history is essential to her practice, by situating her work within contemporary art and embracing a life-long adventure of learning about the complexities of visual culture. She is a recent MITACS Training Research awardee and has been supervised by Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim throughout the internship.

Ra’naa Brown
EAHR Graduate
Member-at-Large
Originally from Brampton, Ontario, Ra’anaa received her Bachelors of Architectural Studies and Masters of Architecture at Laurentian University’s McEwen School of Architecture. She is currently pursuing her PhD research on the intersection of Black art and activism (artivism) at Concordia University. Ra'anaa is the Co-Founder and President of Black Lives Matter Sudbury and Installation Coordinator for Up Here: Urban Arts Festival. She has participated in and curated numerous artivist initiatives and has contributed her talents to the development of many Afrocentric artistic installations. Ra'anaa has taken on many leadership roles, as an artist, activist and academic creating space for people of colour and continually promoting anti-racist practices and social justice.

Nicholas Raffoul
EAHR Graduate
Member-at-Large
Nicholas is a writer and artist committed to an anti-colonial art and research practice. Nicholas received a BA in Art History from McGill University in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). At McGill, Nicholas was the editor-in-chief of Canvas, the undergraduate journal of Art History and Communications. He is currently an MA student in the Art History program at Concordia University. His research interests are concerned with Internet visualities, ethnic futurisms, decolonial art histories, and new media art by contemporary Arab artists. Nicholas is an Advisory Board member for the Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery at NSCAD University.

Varda Nisar
EAHR and EAHR Media Liason Coordinator and Administrator
Varda is currently enrolled as a PhD student in the Art History Department at Concordia University. Previously, she has worked for the Karachi Biennale's Educational Program, as well as established a Children’s Art Fest. She was also a 2015-16 Fellow for Arthink South Asia; in 2012, she was selected for a month long Cultural Heritage Workshop, organized by Smithsonian, University of Wisconsin, and American Institute of Pakistan Studies.Currently her research is focused on national narratives in national institution in Pakistan, and the role they play in creating a hegemonic identity for the post-colonial nation state. Her previous research on the Silawat Community – the original stone masons in her city of Karachi – has been presented in a number of conferences.

Koby Rogers Hall
EAHR Graduate
Member-at-Large
Koby is an artist, writer and social practice facilitator dedicated to dialogical arts practices, archiving as cultural activism, and public interventions for political engagement. She has facilitated long-term multi-stakeholder projects with the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal, the Politics & Care project, and the tactical media Living Archives installation. Her performance work is seen in warehouses, artist-run centres and street demos across the Americas, while she continues to teach in the departments of Theatre and School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia.

MEMBERS 2019 - 2020

Joni Cheung
EAHR Member at Large
Joni Cheung is a Canadian-born Hong Kongese-Chinese artist and an uninvited guest on unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, Stó:lō, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh, and Kanien’kehá:ka peoples. Her research-based interdisciplinary practice investigates the interdependent relationship between identity and space, navigating through discourses around/within transnationalism, migration, and diasporas. Cheung is a MFA student in the Sculpture and Ceramics Concentration (2022) at Concordia University and holds a BFA with Distinction in Visual Art (2018) from SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts.

Elizabeth Davis
Graduate Coordinator and EAHRlMedia Liason
Elizabeth Davis is an MA candidate in the Department of Art History at Concordia University. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History with a Minor in Political Science from McGill University. Elizabeth current research focuses on fat embodiment, subjectivity and vulnerability and shame in the art of Laura Aguilar and Jenny Saville.

Ashley Raghubir
Ashley Raghubir is a graduate student in the MA in Art History program at Concordia University. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Toronto (2008). Ashley has worked in the Canadian non-profit and arts and culture sectors, including positions at Ryerson Image Centre and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Her research interests are Afrofuturism in contemporary art and public programming as research and pedagogy.

Rodrigo D'Alcântara
Global South Working GRoup
Rodrigo D'Alcântara (Rodrigo de Alcântara Barros Bueno - b. Niterói, Brazil) is a visual artist, film/video-maker and PhD student in the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Art History at Concordia University (Montreal, CA). His doctoral studies are supported by Concordia University Graduate Fellowship and Concordia International Tuition Award of Excellence. He holds a Master degree in Visual Arts from the School of Fine Arts of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and a Bachelor degree in Plastic Arts from the University of Brasília (Brazil) - with an exchange term in the Los Andes University (Colombia). Rodrigo's works have been screened internationally, in countries such as Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Chile, Germany, Greece, Italy, among others. He is interested in recent contemporary art movements and theories that have been created through the subversion of hegemonic historicity.

Diane Wong
EAHR Undergraduate Coordinator
Diane Hau Yu Wong graduated from the BFA program in Art History in the summer of 2018 and have gained some working experience in a curatorial capacity prior to returning in September of this year to apply for the Art History graduate program. Her practice and research are largely based on her experience as a second-generation immigrant from British colonial Hong Kong and the intersection between community and diasporic identity as well as the role power plays in shaping post-colonial visual culture. She most recently curate Centre A's annual recent graduate exhibition titled (dis)location (dis)connect (dis)appearance, examining the loss of language, tradition, and culture in the diasporic community and as a result the disconnect between generations and how to bridge these gaps.

members 2018 - 2019

Petra Höller
Undergraduate Media & Publications Coordinator
Petra Höller is an artist, poet and arts facilitator originally from unceded Syilx/Okanagan Nation territory in the area referred to as British Columbia. Their research interests include critical examinations of the archive and institutions of memory; “North American” pop-culture and national myths; social justice in the settler-colonial state; and sustainable and ethical material practises. Petra is currently studying Art History and Studio Arts at Concordia University in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal on unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka.

Hanss Lujan Torres
Hanss Lujan Torres (b. Cusco, Peru) is an artist, curator and MA candidate in the Department of Art History at Concordia University. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts and a Minor in Art History and Visual Culture from the University of British Columbia Okanagan. His current research considers identity politics, queer theory, and the archive as points of departure to examine the social impact of contemporary art.

Alexandra Nordstrom
Alexandra Nordstrom is a curator and writer, currently pursuing an MA in the Department of Art History at Concordia University where she is the recipient of the Renata Hornstein Graduate Fellowship in Art History. Her current research examines how craft practices and Indigenous methodologies can be mobilized together as agents of activism. Alexandra completed her BA in Art History at the University of British Columbia where she was awarded the Trek Excellence Scholarship for Continuing Aboriginal Students.

Laurence Charlebois
Laurence Charlebois is an MA candidate in the department of art history at Concordia University. Prior to her graduate studies, she completed her bachelor’s degree at McGill University with a major in Art History and minor in Hispanic Studies. Her current research is looking at ecocriticism and participatory art in Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Vicious Circular Breathing.

Austin Henderson
Austin Henderson is a visual artist and writer, currently pursuing an MA in Art History at Concordia University. He holds a BFA in Visual Art from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, with a minor in Art History, during which he also studied at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Austin’s artwork has been exhibited in juried group shows across Canada and the United States. His current research is concerned with intersections between contemporary art, design, film, popular culture, queer identities, and memory.

Mikhel Proulx
Mikhel Proulx’s PhD research considers the artistic products from marginalized communities on the early Web. This research attends to histories of Queer collectives, women’s communities, and Indigenous cultural networks, and asks what lessons can be learned from a generation of artists concerned with communication networks and social action. Mikhel is in the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Art History at Concordia, under the supervision of Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim.

Renata Critton-Papp
Renata Critton-Papp is a second-year Art History major at Concordia University in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. Moving between research, visual arts, and creative writing, her practice revolves around documenting emotion, memory, and healing through creation. She is interested in studying intersectionality, accessibility, and reconciliation within art institutions.

MEMBERS AT LARGE

Nina Chabelnik
Nina Chabelnik is an MA graduate student in art history at Concordia University. Based in Montreal, she completed her BA at McGill University in art history and English literature. For her thesis, she will be looking at modernist architecture and religion in the Soviet Union, specifically investigating the Palace of the Soviets and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Her research interests extend to photography, moving images, and cultural studies from the Soviet period. She is currently an editorial assistant at the Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas journal.

Chiara Montpetit
Chiara Montpetit is pursuing a MA in art history at Concordia University under the supervision of Alice Ming Wai Jim. Her current thesis focuses on oral histories inviting empathic listening to narratives of female migrant garment workers. In addition to her academic endeavours, Chiara has interned in Canada and Italy, including the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery and the Cultural Association il Palmerino. Previously, Chiara completed a BA at the University of Ottawa with a double major in Art History and Theory and Italian Language and Culture.

Kimberly Glassman, Jeanne Voizard Marceau, Gabrielle Montpetit, Kanwal Syed.

Estelle/Gatien Wathieu
Estelle/Gatien Wathieu is a MA Student in Art History at Concordia University working under the supervision of Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim. Their thesis focuses on the intersection(s) of contemporary art, corporate social media platforms, and social justice activism. In parallel to their academic studies, Estelle is enthusiastic about deepening their knowledge of herbalism and healing justice, and is working towards building a community-based healing practice.

Autumn Cadorette
Autumn Cadorette is in her final year of her BFA in Art History and Studio Arts at Concordia University. Some of her research interests include studying how archives and institutions contribute the formation of national narratives, and her studio practice centers around enacting memory through craft based mediums.

Raven Spiratos
Raven Spiratos currently is a Masters candidate at McGill University under the supervision of Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson in the department of Art History. Her research interests include the intersection of mixed race populations, with a particular focus on Black mixed race, and art history in Canada taking care to, when possible, draw from Canadian scholars that deal with Black Canadian identity. Her work examines representations of mixed race Black persons in contemporary visual art in Canada that question the legacies of Canadian slavery. More information: https://ravenspiratos.com/

Adrienne Johnson (founding member)
Adrienna Johnson is a Ph.D candidate in art history at McGill University, and holds an MA in Art History from Concordia University (2015). A passionate and long-time contributor to Montreal’s indie art scene, Johnson’s current research is focused on African Canadian landscape painting from the late nineteenth century as it relates to the exploration of African Canadian presence, creative authorship, (mis)representation, and the formation of identity. In addition to contributing to the Canadian Women’s Art Historical Initiative (CWAHI), she is a co-founder of Ethnocultural Art Histories Research (EAHR), a student-driven research community based in Concordia’s Art History Department, launched in 2011 with Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim that facilitates opportunities for exchange and creation in the examination of, and engagement with, issues of ethnic and cultural representation within the visual arts in Canada.