Carla Rice, Phd Canada Research Chair and Professor
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Dr. Carla Rice | Curriculum Vitae Part 1: Education, Awards, Appointments Carla Rice, PhD Canada Research Chair and Professor (Full) 321 Wellesley Street East Toronto, Ontario | M4X 1H2 Home Office: 416.779.8930 | Fax: 1 (416) 628-1667 University of Guelph Offices: College of Social and Applied Human Sciences Macdonald Institute | Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice @ REDLAB | Revisioning Differences Mobile Media Arts Lab 103 Blackwood Hall | Trent Lane Email: [email protected] | Websites: www.carlarice.ca; revisioncentre.ca; Executive Summary: This executive summary encapsulates my career accomplishments in 3 areas: research, publishing, and socio-cultural impact. Research - In the past 8 years, I founded Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice and the Revisioning Differences Media Arts Laboratory (REDLAB), a cutting-edge research creation centre and a state-of-the-art media-lab, which seek to explore the efficacy and power of arts-informed research and research creation methods to advance social well-being, inclusion, equity and justice in Canada and beyond. Over my relatively brief academic career (starting July 1, 2004), I have achieved full professor, received five awards for advocacy, research, mentorship, and teaching, and was recently inducted into the Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists (November 2017). I currently direct nine research programs and co-investigate eight initiatives, representing over $8 million, 180+ researchers, 40 Canadian and five international universities. In the role as Principal Investigator, I was most recently awarded a SSHRC Partnership Grant totaling $2.5M (with matching funds of $3.5M) and involving 50+ organizations as well as an Insight Grant of $299,000 involving 9 community/ academic partners. My Partnership Grant was ranked 1st nationally, with the panel noting that the “project provides an enormously significant, comprehensive, well-researched, unconventional, paradigm-changing framework with the potential to substantially shift the dominant discourse around disability arts and activism as well as to provide a solid platform for multiple forms of research-creation and substantial opportunities for high-quality training and pedagogical development.” Publishing: Over my whole professional career (in academia and in community-facing work), I have published 5 books with 2 more under contract (UT Press, UBC Press, Routledge, Canadian Scholars/Women’s Press and Wilfrid Laurier University Press), 74+ refereed papers (published/ in press/ submitted in some of the world’s highest ranking feminist and critical theory/ methods journals), over 35 refereed book chapters, 20 invited papers/articles, and 16+ reports/ manuals; mentored 50+ students in scholarship and research; supervised 40+ students in clinical training and community work; produced an archive of 800+ films; and delivered hundreds of training workshops, consultations, and presentations, including close to 270 refereed paper presentations and 250+ non-refereed talks and workshops. My co-edited book (with Marg Hobbs) Gender and Women’s Studies: Critical Terrain has sold over 10,000 copies and is now in second edition (April 2018) and already selling over 10,000 copies in just a year. We have been approached to develop a version of this text for the US market. Lifetime General | Page 1 Dr. Carla Rice | Curriculum Vitae Part 1: Education, Awards, Appointments Social and Cultural Impact: A leader in the field of body image/embodiment studies in Canada and internationally both prior to and since moving into academia, I am a founding member and former director of initiatives including Canada’s National Eating Disorder Information Centre, the internationally acknowledged Eating Disorder Awareness Week and the Body Image Project at Women's College Hospital in Toronto. I am nationally and internationally recognized, as exemplified by my receiving the Outstanding International Researcher Prize from the British Psychological Society Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section (June 2019), and numerous speaking invitations ranging from intensive trainings to keynote addresses. Recent keynotes include at the Jim Silcox Visiting Professorship, School of Medicine, (Western University), Arts Futures (Ottawa and Toronto), Guelph Sexuality Conference (University of Guelph), 33rd Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference (Brock University), the Conference on Applied Qualitative Research (Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion, Wales), the Amplify Culture Summit (City of Waterloo, Ontario), Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences 2017 inaugural Fat Studies Conference (Ryerson University, Toronto), Interdisciplinary Feminist Forum Inaugural Lecture (University of Guelph). In 2020, one of the research projects that I lead, Into the Light: Eugenics and Education in Southern Ontario, mounted a museum exhibition that received the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation. In 2018, I was the first non-physician to be selected for the Jim Silcox Lectureship by the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry’s Medical Education Committee at Western University (London, Ontario), an honorific that involved delivering keynote lectures and intensive workshops to the medical faculty and residents in 2018-2019. I have also consulted with provincial and federal governments including most recently the Government of Canada’s Standing Committee on the Status of Women and the Prime Minister’s Privy Council Office (PCO). Education, Awards, Appointments EDUCATION Ph.D. in Women’s Studies, York University, June 2004 Dissertation: Becoming Women: Body Image, Identity, and Difference in the Passage to Womanhood Focus areas: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the body, including fat, disability, and embodiment studies; body image/embodiment across the life-span; poststructuralist and new materialist theories of subjectivities and bodies; gender, race, health, and critical psychology; qualitative and arts-informed research methodologies; and feminist pedagogy. Defense date: December 8, 2003. Graduation: June 2004. M.Ed. in Applied Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, November 1993 Qualifying Research Paper – The Politics of Program Development: Women’s Services, State Power, and Social Change Honours B.A. in History, Harvard University, June 1985 Magna Cum Laude Thesis – Fashion, Feminism, and Conflict: The Politics of Dress Reform from 1850 to 1914 AWARDS Nominee, CSAHS for a SSHRC Tier 1 CRC in Feminist Studies and Social Practice, University of Guelph, 2020 Lifetime General | Page 2 Dr. Carla Rice | Curriculum Vitae Part 1: Education, Awards, Appointments Co-Recipient, Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation for Into the Light: Eugenics and Education in Southern Ontario. Into the Light is an exhibition at Guelph Museums, in collaboration with Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice/Bodies in Translation, that brings the histories and experiences of eugenics to light. The exhibition has preserved and protected the stories of survivors of eugenic practices, and uncovered evidence of eugenics in education found in university archives. Into the Light situates individuals with lived experience at the forefront and turns over museum space to tell these stories. The museum provides the space and acts as liaison between voices that have been marginalized from the broader community. Substantial efforts have been made to ensure that the exhibition is accessible, including use of plain language, American Sign Language interpretation at events, captioning and transcripts of audio components, and narrative audio description. Its curators hope that Into the Light will inspire future examination and scholarship regarding the issue of eugenics and other difficult histories. February 2020 Recipient, Outstanding International Researcher Prize, British Psychological Society Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section. Awarded to a researcher not based in the UK who has done something exceptional with qualitative methods, moving qualitative methods forward internationally in exciting new ways. June 2019 Nominee, CSAHS for a SSHRC Tier 1 CRC in Feminist Studies, Creative Research and Social Practice, University of Guelph, (CRC cancelled for budgetary reasons) 2018 Nominee, Governor General Innovation Awards, University of Guelph, 2018 Nominee, John Bell Teaching Award for Pedagogical Innovation, University of Guelph, 2018 Nominee, Jill Vickers Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in Political Science, 2017 Inductee, Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists The University of Guelph nominated me to become a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Canada’s first national system of multidisciplinary recognition for the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leadership. The Members of the College are scholars who, at an early stage in their career, have demonstrated a high level of achievement. The criteria for election is excellence, and membership is for seven years. (Nominated: February 2017; Inducted: November 2017) Recipient, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences Faculty Teaching Award This award recognizes excellence and innovation in teaching. Five graduate students, two faculty members and two research collaborators commented on my “outstanding” and “profoundly paradigm shifting” modes of instruction and skill and talents as a “gifted”. “dedicated” “brilliant”