by Gabby | Jan 7, 2021 | Photography, Research, Writing
The tempo of academic publishing is sometimes maddeningly slow, but it also provides the opportunity to return to archival research with fresh eyes, and the perspectives of other scholars and researchers, and to think about what it means for the present. As part of my...
by Gabby | Dec 4, 2018 | Photography, Research, Writing
A colleague and mentor once told me that the average amount of time between an academic author completing the manuscript to their first book and its actual publication was 9 years. That number was a helpful mile marker over the last several years as I moved through...
by Gabby | Sep 16, 2017 | Photography, Research
When Canada’s first citizenship laws came into effect in 1947, photography had already been representing this mode of belonging in the country for more than 50 years. Citizen Subjects: photography, race and belonging in Canada explores this unique context that allowed...
by Gabby | Sep 15, 2017 | Photography, Research, Teaching
I spent a lot of time over the last year reading, and making notes, and generally spending time alone with my thoughts. I think that is what research fellowships and post-docs are for, but for an extrovert double Leo, it was sometimes hard to remember why I was doing...
by Gabby | Jun 8, 2017 | Photography, Research, Writing
Academic publishing sometimes feels painfully slow. I learned, towards the end of my PhD, that the average time between finishing a dissertation and getting it edited into and published as a book manuscript is 9 years. 9 years! That felt like an eternity at the time,...
by Gabby | Aug 8, 2016 | Photography, Research
Throughout the month of June, I had the pleasure of working in the Black Star agency’s collection at the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) through their Elaine Ling Fellowship. During that time, I looked through more than 3,300 photographs in the collection, as part of...
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