
Emily Draicchio Graduate Student Fellow (Spring/Summer 2022)
Emily Draicchio (she/her/elle) is a white settler and first generation Canadian of Italian and German descent. She was born and raised in...

Amanda Trager Graduate Student Fellow (Spring/Summer 2022)
Amanda Trager is an American intermedia artist who lives in the U.S. and Nova Scotia. Her research-based work situates narratives within distinct...

Chris J. Gismondi Graduate Student Fellow (Winter 2022)
Chris J. Gismondi (he/they) is a queer, white, Qallunaak-zhaaganaash-settler, first generation “Canadian” of Scottish and Italian descent, born and raised on Nanzuhzaugewazog,...

Tyshan Wright Artist-in-Residence Fellow (Winter 2022)
Tyshan Wright hails from the historic Maroon Town of Accompong in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. A “Keeper Of The Heritage” (Jamaica Gleaner) and...

Jason Cyrus Graduate Student Fellow (Fall 2021)
Jason Cyrus analyzes fashion and textile history to explore questions of identity, cultural exchange, and agency. He is the 2021 Isabel Bader...

Tonya “Sam’Gwan” Paris Artist-in-Residence Fellow (Fall 2021)
Tonya Paris, also known as Sam’Gwan, is an established Mi’kmaq and African Nova Scotia artist activist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia; which...

Bruno R. Véras Graduate Student Fellow (Fall 2021)
Bruno R. Véras is a historian and cultural producer native of Recife, Brazil. His research interests include the African Diasporas, West African...
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