Office of Research & Innovation honours faculty members

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

OCAD University’s Office of Research and Innovation has announced the 2016/2017 recipients of The OCAD University Award for Excellence in Early Stage Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity: Emma Westecott, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Science and Patricio Dávila, Associate Professor and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Design. 

The award recognizes promising, recently-appointed faculty members for their outstanding promise to be distinguished researchers, scholars, artists and designers within a university context. The goal of the program is to support the development of a culture of research, scholarship and creativity within OCAD University.

The Office of Research and Innovation also announced the 2016/2017 recipient of The OCAD University Award for Distinguished Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity: Johanna Householder, Professor, Faculty of Art and Graduate Studies, and Chair, Cross-Disciplinary Art Practices.

The award recognizes faculty members for their outstanding portfolio of research, scholarship and creative activity, and the impact that activity has had on the broad spectrum of art and design research and practice internationally. The award also recognizes contributions toward undergraduate and graduate research and scholarly training.
  
As Canada's university of the imagination, OCAD University offers a depth and breadth of undergraduate and graduate critical inquiry. The university engages in art and design research and creative practices through a diversity of perspectives, methods and approaches.
 

Dr. Gabrielle Moser’s Walrus Talk online

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

If you didn’t get to see Dr. Gabrielle Moser’s presentation at last month’s sold-out Walrus Talks, you can listen to her online.

The talk is available on CBC’s The Next 150 podcast (episode 11) and on YouTube.

On May 31, The Walrus Talk “Conversations about Canada: We Desire a Better Country” featured Dr. Moser, alongside author Margaret Atwood, activist Syrus Marcus Ware and singer/actor Tom Jackson, among other speakers. It was the last of the talks on a cross-country tour marking the anniversary of Confederation.

Dr. Moser, adjunct professor in art history FOLAS/IS, presented an excerpt from her research project, “Picturing race and citizenship: photography and belonging in the US and Canada, 1900-1948.” The project aims to build a visual vocabulary of citizenship by analyzing how photographers, subjects, and viewers used the camera to make claims for belonging in the United States and Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.

Dr. Moser held the position of Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University in the winter 2017 semester.

Gabrielle Moser receives Fulbright Scholar Award

Photo of Gabrielle Moser in a photo archive
Thursday, December 8, 2016 - 6:45pm

Dr. Gabrielle Moser, adjunct professor in art history in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and School of Interdisciplinary Studies, will take on the role of Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University in the winter 2017 semester. Dr. Moser’s research project, “Picturing race and citizenship: photography and belonging in the US and Canada, 1900-1948,” aims to build a visual vocabulary of citizenship by analyzing how photographers, subjects, and viewers used the camera to make claims for belonging in the United States and Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.

“Canada’s adoption of the Citizenship Act (1947) late in the 20th century means the idea of citizenship, and its representation, circulated for decades before being enshrined in law, shaping the experiences of minority groups, immigrants and indigenous subjects on both sides of the border,” said Dr. Moser. "The more work I do in the archive, the more I am interested in the period of 1946-48 in Canada because it allows me to examine Canadian visual citizenship from a transnational perspective that puts it into conversation with world events during this period.”

The project imagines citizenship beyond its legal definitions, as a visual and social practice. By looking at five instances in Canada's photographic record, the research examines how people of colour and indigenous subjects appealed to global ideas of rights and belonging to picture themselves as citizens.

“I am thrilled to celebrate Dr. Moser's research success. The Fulbright Visiting Scholar award is complemented by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Development Grant; her work is one example of the exemplary research being undertaken in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and School of Interdisciplinary Studies at the university,” said Dr. Robert Luke, OCAD University Vice-President, Research and Innovation.

Dr. Moser will present an excerpt from her research in progress as part of The Walrus Talks Conversations about Canada: We Desire A Better Country, coming to Toronto on May 31, 2017 which includes talks by Margaret Atwood, Deepa Mehta and Syrus Marcus Ware. More information can be found at The Walrus’s website.