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The Baltic Amber Trade, c. 1500-1800: The Effects and Ramifications of a Global Counterflow Commodity
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My thesis adds a new dimension to the history of the Baltic region during the early modern period (c. 1500-1800) by focusing on a previously unexamined global commodity from the Baltic: amber. Historically, the Baltic’s commercial activity during this period has been characterized as one...
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Fall 2017
Over the last few years, the importance of place in the creation, and continuation of, Metis communities has comprised one of my primary research interests. Tied up in this idea of place are the key questions: why did Metis individuals and families decide to stay in the borderlands in the face of...
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Response competition operates on movement direction and is effector-independent: Evidence from three free choice reaching tasks
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People and other organisms live in complex environments where the number of potential actions is almost always greater than the number of actions that can be performed at a time. Thus, organisms must make decisions about which actions to perform and which to not perform. Theories about how action...
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Privacy, Dignity, and Integrity: A Material Culture Analysis of What Space and Technology Affords the Neonatal Nurse
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Despite a large and ever-growing body of literature that is concerned withthe relationship between the neonatal nurse and the physical environment of herworkplace, particularly as knowledge that can inform the design of NICUs, thereis very little work that looks to understand how the neonatal...
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2023-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: "Paper Lives, Post-Digital Connections" will explore the unlikely, and vibrant, connection of paper journals to digitally connected international communities devoted to journaling, particularly by members of Gen-Z, on the social media platforms they use the most:...
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Integral Urbanism: Investigating the Materiality and Spatiality of the University of Alberta Quadrangle
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The university quadrangle is a space that exists on the majority of North American campuses, yet detailed investigation into the creation, existence and perpetuation of the quadrangle has been minimal. Considering how universities look to distinguish themselves from one another in search of the...
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09/27/2021
SSRHC IG awarded 2022: The PI will test the well-worn trope, "you are what you where," by examining how racial hierarchies in the imperial Atlantic used dress and material systems to enact race. Whiteness shaped aesthetic priorities in empires and colonies, including the raced and gendered...
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Encounter and Engagement with Curricular Material Culture in Multicultural Educational Contexts
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The number of immigrants entering Canada annually is projected to rise to 333,600 by 2035 (Statistics Canada, 2010). This migration increase also means an upsurge in newcomers in Canadian classrooms, which creates pedagogical challenges and concerns (Canadian Teachers’ Federation, 2013). These...
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2020-09-28
SSHRC IG awarded 2021: This project investigates how medieval Japanese monastics from Nara-area schools performed cultic practices. But it is also concerned with how modern scholars treat the "lived religion" of those practices. My focus on creative syntheses of material, visual, and ritual...