EDUCATION AND FELLOWSHIPS:
International Science Research Fellowship 2014 – 2015
Lichtenberg-Kolleg – The Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and German Science Council, Göttingen, Germany
- Research project: Advancing Scientific Knowledge: The Trade of Enlightenment Science Collections
- Research rare 18th and 19th Century German, French and British anatomical and medical texts, atlases, diaries, letters, specimen collections and scientific instruments.
Postdoctoral Fellowship 2012 – 2014
“Situating Science,”National Strategic Knowledge Cluster Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Dalhousie University and University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Areas of concentration:
- Prepare book From Body to Book: An Anatomy of the 19th Century Scientific Atlas
- Research North American and European archival and material science collections for invited journal articles and book chapters
- Coordinate symposium Bodies Laid Bare in Anatomy, Law and Culture
- Curate exhibition Model Bodies, featuring historical science models, books, scientific instruments and recent scientific images.
- Develop CIHR grant proposal on science artifacts with Canadian historians and curators of medicine and science/technology studies
Research Fellowship 2011 – 2012
The Helfand Fellowship in the History of Medicine
New York Academy of Medicine, Rare Book Room, New York, New York
- Research project: Picturing Science: Diagrams, Atlases and Photographs
Ph.D. (History) 2010
Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
- Areas of specialization: Cultural and social histories of science and scientific imagery; history of scientific publishing; feminist philosophy; history and theory on gender, race and sexuality.
- Ph.D. dissertation: Bodies of Knowledge: 19th-Century Scientific Atlases
M.A. (Art History and Gender Studies) 1995
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
- Areas of specialization: visual and cultural analysis of the body; interdisciplinary methodologies; museum studies; gender politics and theory
B.A. (Honors Art History) 1993 and B.A. (Studio Arts)
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES IN SCIENCE AND CULTURE:
REQUIRE RECENT PROJECTS
Museum Consultant Present (DATE?)
Contribute historical research and content expertise
Medical Sensations: Medicine and the Five Senses
(National permanent museum exhibition of historical artifacts, books and profiles)
Canadian Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, Ontario
Curator 2015
Anatomica (Contemporary artworks by international artists, scientific books, photographs and artifacts)
Dalhousie University Art Gallery Halifax, Nova Scotia
Interdisciplinary Science Symposium Coordinator 2013
Bodies Laid Bare in Anatomy, Law and Culture
Royal Society of Canada “Open Academy”
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Curator 2013
Model Bodies
(Over 100 scientific artifacts, x-rays, books and photographs related to Dalhousie University’s scientific research projects and laboratory records)
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Museum Research Consultant 2011-2012
Research artifacts, images and stories from across Canada for exhibition planning
Medical Sensations: Medicine and the Five Senses
(National museum exhibition of historical medical artifacts, books and medical instruments)
Canadian Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, Ontario
Project Curator and Public Programming Coordinator 2007-2011
Enriched Bread Artists, Ottawa, Ontario
Curator 2003
Mindscapes: Contemporary Art and Mental Illness (National exhibition featuring artwork from across Canada)
Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Curator 2002
Fluid: Emerging Artists from Canada
Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario
Curatorial Assistant 1998 – 1999
Artists Space, New York, New York
Visual Arts Consultant 1998 – 1999
Canadian Consulate, Cultural Division, New York, New York
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Lecturer 2012-2014
University of King’s College, Dalhousie University and
Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (NSCAD), Halifax, Nova Scotia
History of Science and Technology
• Scientific Artifacts: The Material Culture of Science Education
Faculty of Medicine (Novel Tech Ethics)
• History of Scientific Specimens and the Science Cabinet
• From Body to Book: 19th Century Aesthetics, Atlases and Bookmaking
Media Arts at NSCAD (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design)
• Recent Biomedical Art
Professor 2011
Canadian Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, Ontario
• Reading Artifacts: Summer Institute in the Material Culture of Science
Instructor 2004 – 2011
School for Studies in Art and Culture
Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
• Feminist and/or Gender Issues in Art and Visual Culture – ARTH 4600A (2007 – 2011)
• Art and Society: Renaissance to Present – ARTH 1101 (Summer 2003)
• The Body and Representation – WOMN 3003 (Winter 2004)
• Envisioning the Body: Between Art and Science – ARTH 3809B (2007, 2003)
• Gender, Race and Society – IND 3601A (Winter 2008)
• Special Museums Exhibition Seminar – National Gallery of Canada – ARTH 3705A/4705A
(The 1930s and the Making of the New Man: Science, Visuality and Body Politics) (Spring 2008)
Part-Time Professor 2003 – 2004
Visual Arts Department
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
• Contemporary Art and Visual Culture 11: 1980’s to Present – ART 3181 (Winter 2004)
• Contemporary Art and Visual Culture 1: 1960’s and 70’s – ART 3180 (Fall 2003)
Sessional Lecturer and Graduate Teaching Assistant 2001 – 2003
Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
• Envisioning the Body: Between Art and Science (Winter 2001)
Graduate Teaching Assistant and Guest Lecturer 1992 – 1994
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
Research Paper, Thesis and Graduate Student Supervision 2004-2014
Carleton University, University of King’s College and Dalhousie University
• I have supervised undergraduate and graduate research projects, graduate-level TAs, and have
been an External Examiner for Master’s thesis. As a Professor at the Canadian Science and
Technology Museum’s Summer Institute, I have supervised graduate students at both the
Masters and Doctoral levels.
PUBLICATIONS:
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS AND REVIEWS
“Dissecting Scientific Books: The Visual, Material, Marketing and Technical Shifts Effecting
Scientific Atlases in the First half of the Nineteenth Century,” forthcoming invited
journal article for the 2016 special issue on McGill University’s Osler Library of the
History of Medicine and its Collections. Papers of The Bibliographical Society of
Canada: Toronto.
“Disease, Representation and the Clinical Gaze in 19thC Science,” forthcoming invited
chapter in the 2016 book entitled Where is the Laboratory Now?
“Representation”, “Intervention” and “Realism” in 19th to 21st-Century Sciences.
University of Toronto Press: Toronto.
“Gender, Fate and McGill University’s Medical Collections: The Case of Curator Maude
Abbott,” The Fate of Anatomical Collections, eds. Rina Knoeff and Robert
Zwijnenberg, (Ashgate: England), 2015. Invited chapter for Ashgate’s series on The
History of Medicine in Context, University of Cambridge, England.
Reading Medical Artifacts, Contemporary Art and Medical Regimes: Curating Anatomica.
Feature article posted on Impact Ethics: Making a Difference in Bioethics Blog, 2015.
The Women Question in Science. Review of “Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine
Symposium” at McGill University, posted on Situating Science Blog, 2012.
“The Instructive Corpse: Dissection, Specimens and Illustrations in Early-Nineteenth Century
Science Education,” Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and
Philosophy of Science, (Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and
Technology, University of Toronto), Vol. 6, No. 1 (2012): 50-64. Invited article for the
special issue on Visual Representation and Science.
“Bodies of Knowledge: The Nineteenth-Century Anatomical Atlas in the Spaces of Art and
Science,” RACAR (University Art Association of Canada Journal), Vol. 33, No. 1-2,
(Winter 2008): 75-86. Invited article for special issue entitled Medical Tableau.
“Life, Art, Death and the Power of the Real: Mueck’s Scientific Bodies at the National
Gallery,” Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 176, No. 9, (April 24, 2007): 1314.
“Ars Medica: Medical Illustration through the Ages,” Canadian Medical Association Journal,
Vol. 175, No. 5, (August 29, 2006): 505-506.
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
“The Art and Science of Visual Investigation,” curatorial essay in exhibition catalogue
Anatomica, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, 2015.
“Digital Spaces and the Specter of Science,” Guerilla Magazine, (Get Guerilla, Ottawa), (Fall 2007): 14.
“Life, Art, Death and the Power of the Real: Mueck’s Bodies at the National Gallery,” Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 176, No. 9, (April 24, 2007): 1314-1315.
“Ars Medica: Medical Illustration through the Ages,” Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 175, No. 5, (August 29, 2006): 505-506.
“Medicine’s Melancholy Male Mannequins,” Theodore Wan, (Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax), (2004): 40-45.
“Between Line and Form: Contemporary Installations at The Ottawa Art Gallery,” (Exhibition Review), ESPACE: Contemporary Sculpture, (Fall 2003): 35-36.
“Mindscapes: Visual Art and Mental Illness,” Mindscapes: Contemporary Art and Mental Illness, (Canadian Mental Health Association, Ottawa), 2003.
“Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Body,” Parachute, Vol. 104, (Fall 2001): 143.
“Metamorphosis and Cloning of the Body in Contemporary Art,” C Magazine: International Contemporary Art, No. 71, (Fall 2001): 42-43.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES:
Fleshed Out: Science, Art and Matter 2015
Truth of the Matter Symposium, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
Science and Artifacts: Historical Ways of Seeing and Making Science 2015
Biomedical Visions Lecture Series, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax
Scientific and Artistic ‘Perfection’ at Göttingen’s Enlightened Museum 2014
Collect, Exchange, Display: Artistic Practice and the Medical Museum
Hunterian Museum – The Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, England
Linking the History of Science to Scientific Artifacts 2014, History of Science and Technology Studies, University of King’s College, Halifax
Making Scientific Knowledge Visible during the German Enlightenment 2013, Lichtenberg-Kolleg Institute of Advanced Study, Göttingen, Germany
Science and Culture: Emerging Agendas Panelist 2013
CIHR, NRSERC and SSHRC Policy Development Symposium
Science and Society: Emerging Agendas for Citizens and the Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Disease Representation and Observational Practice in 19thC Medicine 2013
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Workshop
Where is the Laboratory Now? “Representation”, “Intervention” and
“Realism” in 19th and 20th Century Biomedical Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary
The Order of Bodies and the Order of Books: Nineteenth-Century 2013
Atlases, Authorship and Scientific Publishing
Symposium: What is a Scientific Author? Cultures of Scientific Publishing, Harvard University, Cambridge
Specimens and Dissections: Their Histories and Publics 2013
Royal Society of Canada “Open Academy”
Bodies Laid Bare in Anatomy, Law and Culture Symposium, Dalhousie University, Halifax
Picturing Pathology: Morbid Anatomy Diagrams, Scientific Atlases and Disease 1700–1840 2012, New York Academy of Medicine, New York
Seeing is Knowing: The Rise of Clinical Science and Visualization 2012
Conference: Cultures of Scientific Collections, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Anatomical Texts as Scientific Artifacts 2011
Reading Artifacts: Summer Institute in the Material Culture of Science, Canadian Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa
The Instructive Corpse: 19th Century Anatomical Diagrams and Dissection 2011
Hannah Chair Lecture Series 2011, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
Dissected Bodies as Books: Illustrated Nineteenth-Century Anatomical 2010
Atlases as Medicine’s New Teaching Texts
Symposium: Medicine, Art and Visualization in the Nineteenth Century, Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal
Perfectly Diseased and Pathologically Real: Scientific Atlases, 1830s 2010
Panel: The Visual Realm of Science and Medicine, University Art Association of Canada Annual Conference, Guelph, Ontario
Recent Studies, Methods and Theories in Art, Science and Culture 2009, SSAC – Art History Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
Kristi Engle Gallery 2008, Los Angeles, California
Bodies of Evidence: The Illustrative Apparatus of 2007
Nineteenth-Century Science Atlases
Panel: New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Art History, College Art Association Annual Conference. New York, New York
“The natural appearance of the parts dissected”: The Rhetoric of the Real 2006 in Scientific Illustration. University Art Association of Canada Annual Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Medical Atlases and Ideal Beauty 2006
North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Purdue University, Indianapolis
Roadmaps of the Body?: The Languages of Science 2005, University Art Association of Canada Annual Conference, Victoria, British Columbia
Feminist Theory and Science’s Body of Knowledge 2005
School of Arts and Letters: Culture & Expression, York University, Toronto, Ontario
GRANTS / AWARDS:
Lichtenberg-Kolleg Fellowship 2014
German Research Foundation and German Science Council, The Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study
Royal Society of Canada “Open Academy” Grant 2012-2013
Symposium “Bodies Laid Bare in Anatomy, Law and Culture,” Dalhousie University
Postdoctoral Fellowship 2012-2013
“Situating Science” Strategic Knowledge Cluster
Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
The Helfand Fellowship in the History of Medicine 2011-2012
New York Academy of Medicine
Professional Development Award 2008-2011, Carleton University
Dissertation Year Fellowship and Tuition Scholarship 2007-2008, Binghamton University
Binghamton University Graduate Teaching Assistantship 2001-2003
Carleton University Teaching Assistantship 1993-1994
Charlotte Whitton Foundation Graduate Scholarship – Carleton University 1993-1994