THE TEAM

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CORE TEAM

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.
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.
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Joni Cheung
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.
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.
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.
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Rodrigo D'Alcântara
​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. His theoretical research focuses on analyzing some of the concepts and imagery that have been perpetuated through Western Art History and have contributed in maintaining a colonial structure in contemporary times. He is interested in recent contemporary art movements and theories that have been created through the subversion of hegemonic historicity.
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. 

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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
Sarah Piché
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. 
Diane Wong
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 AT LARGE

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

​Concordia University is located on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters on which we gather today. Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations. Today, it is home to a diverse population of Indigenous and other peoples. We respect the continued connections with the past, present and future in our ongoing relationships with Indigenous and other peoples within the Montreal community.
For more information, please visit: https://www.concordia.ca/about/indigenous/territorial-acknowledgement.html 
Credits: EAHR's logo was created and designed by Adrienne Johnson, co-founder of EAHR / notre logo a été créé par Adrienne Johnson, co-fondatrice de EAHR.
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