Charmaine Andrea Nelson (last updated 4 December 2020) Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada e-mail: [email protected] Website: blackcanadianstudies.com Table of Contents Permanent Affiliations - 2 Education - 2 Major Research Awards, Fellowships & Honours - 3 Other Awards, Fellowships & Honours – 4 Research - 5 Research Grants and Scholarships - 5 Publications - 9 Lectures, Conferences, Workshops – 18 Keynote Lectures – 18 Invited Lectures: Academic Seminars, Series, Workshops – 20 Refereed Conference Papers - 29 Invited Lectures: Public Forums – 37 Museum & Gallery Lectures – 42 Course Lectures - 45 Teaching - 50 Courses - 50 Course Development - 59 Graduate Supervision and Service - 60 Administration/Service - 71 Interviews & Media Coverage – 71 Blogs & OpEds - 96 Interventions - 99 Conference, Speaker & Workshop Organization - 100 University/Academic Service: Appointments - 103 University/Academic Service: Administration - 104 Committee Service & Seminar Participation - 105 Forum Organization and Participation - 107 Extra-University Academic Service – 108 Qualifications, Training and Memberships - 115 Related Cultural Work Experience – 118 2 Permanent Affiliations 2020-present Department of Art History and Contemporary Culture NSCAD, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Professor of Art History and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement/ Founding Director - Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery: research, administrative duties, teaching (1 half course/ year): undergraduate and MA teaching and supervision April 2016- Department of Art History and Communication Studies November 2020 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Professor of Art History: research, administrative duties, teaching (4 half courses/yearlY): BA Art History (minor, major, honours), MA and PhD Art History and Communication Studies; courses also cross-listed in African Studies, Canadian Studies, Minor in Ethnic and Racial Studies and Gender and Sexuality Diversity Program July 2006- Department of Art History and Communication Studies April 2016 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Associate Professor of Art History (tenured): *contract details as above July 2003- Department of Art History and Communication Studies June 2006 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Assistant Professor of Art History (tenure-track): *contract details as above July 2003- Department of Visual Arts 2006 University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada Adjunct Professor of Art History JulY 2001- Department of Visual Arts June 2003 University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada Assistant Professor of Art History (tenure-track): 40% teaching (5 half courses/yearly); 40% research, 20% administrative duties; taught and supervised BFA Art History and Studio Art, MA Art History and MFA Studio Art Students Education 1998-2001 University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K. Ph.D. Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology Supervisors: Dr. David Lomas and Professor Marcia Pointon External Examiner: Professor Griselda Pollock Dissertation: “Narrating Blackness: Studies in Femininity, SexualitY and Race in European and American Art of the 19th Century” 1996 - 1997 Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Ph.D. Art History, Department of Art Specialization: Race and Representation 2 3 Supervisor: Professor Lynda Jessup *transferred to The University of Manchester 1994-1995 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Master of Arts, Department oF Art History Specialization: Canadian Art History Supervisor: Professor Janice Helland Thesis: “‘Coloured Nude’: Fetishization, Disguise, Dichotomy” (accepted first submission) G.P.A.: 4.17 1990-1994 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Bachelor of Fine Arts, Department oF Art History G.P.A.: 3.53, with distinction Major Research Awards, Fellowships & Honours May & June 2021 Bard Graduate Center Research Fellowship Bard Graduate Center, New York City, USA Research Project: “Joe the Pressman: How and African-Born Man Refused a Life of Slavery in Canada” July 1, 2017- William Lyon Mackenzie King Chair of Canadian Studies June 30, 2018 Harvard University, Cambridge, USA Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and the Weatherhead Center For International Affairs -teaching (2 courses); chair year-long seminar on Canadian scholarship; organize academic workshop; publish edited book November 28-30, Principal’s Development Fund Visiting Scholar 2016 Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada November 2016- Member – College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists October 2023 The Royal Society of Canada May 2015 - Faculty Fellow April 2017 Institute for Public Life of the Arts and Ideas McGill University, Montreal December 2015- Associate Member present Concordia University, Montreal Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute For Studies in Canadian Art January - Visiting Associate Professor May 2011 University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, USA Department of AFricologY -research, administrative, teaching (2 courses): BA (minor, major, honours), MA and PhD Africology and Art History 3 4 September - Fulbright Visiting Research Chair December 2010 University of California – Santa Barbara, USA Art History Department Research Project: “Sugar Cane, Slaves and Ships: Colonialism and the Picturesque Landscapes of Nineteenth-Century Montreal and Jamaica”; teaching (1 course): BA Art History, Black Studies September 2007- Caird Senior Research Fellow August 2008 National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK Research Project: “Sugar Cane, Slaves and Ships: Race, Location and Power in Nineteenth-Century Transoceanic Art” Other Awards, Fellowships & Honours September 2017 15 Professors of the Year 2017 Harvard Crimson Harvard University, Cambridge, USA http://www.thecrimson.com/topic/15-interesting-professors-2017/ http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/14/fifteen-professors-2017-charmaine-nelson/ April 2016 Teaching Award The Arts Undergraduate Society of McGill UniversitY McGill University, Montreal April 2016 Faculty Award for Equity and Community Building McGill University, Montreal April 2014 Bronze Medal Horizon Interactive Awards, 12th Annual Websites: Advocacy/Non-Profit Category blackcanadianstudies.com December 2013 Laureate Montreal Black History Month Roundtable Black History Month - 2014 Calendar March 2013 Bravo 2013 Celebrant McGill University, Montreal, Canada Celebration of Research Excellence Award September 2012 Woman of Distinction Award (Arts and Culture Category) Women’s Y Foundation, Montreal Evaluation Criteria: 1) Action, (2) Influence in Society, (3) Impact, (4) Achievement February 2012 February Book of the Month Cambridge Scholars Press 4 5 Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010) 2006-07 Outstanding Alumni Contribution to the Student Community The African and Caribbean Students’ Network of Montreal 1995 David Rubin Graduate Research Award ($500) Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Exceptional MA Thesis (1st ever recipient) Research Research Grants and Scholarships Individual: Major April 2020 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada March 2025 Insight Grant - Five Years ($236,180): Joe the Pressman: How an African-born Man Refused a Life of Slavery in Canada April 2014 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada March 2019 Insight Grant - Five Years ($172,528): From African to Creole: Representing Canadian and Jamaican slaves in Late 18th c. & Early 19th c. Art and Fugitive Slave Advertisements April 2009 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada February 2012 Standard Research Grant - Three Years ($119,304): Sugar cane, Slaves and Ships: Race, Geography and Power in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica *with two-year Research Time Stipend for course release March 2004 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada February 2007 Standard Research Grant - Three Years ($54,479): The Colour of Stone: Sculpting Black Female Subjects in Nineteenth- Century American Neoclassicism March 2004 - Fonds québecois de la recherche sur la sociéte et la culture February 2007 New Researcher Grant - Three Years ($39,000): La couleur de la pierre: Le sujet feminin de race noire dans la sculpture neoclassique americaine du dix-neuvieme siecle September 1998- Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme August 2001 Overseas Research Student Award ($30,000): PhD Art History, University of Manchester 5 6 Narrating Blackness: Studies in Femininity, Sexuality and Race in European and American Art of the 19th Century September 1996- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada May 2001 Doctoral Fellowship ($62,676): PhD Art History Narrating Blackness: Studies in Femininity, Sexuality and Race in European and American Art of the 19th Century Individual: Minor June 2019 McGill University, Montreal, Canada Research Grants Office Conference Travel Grant ($1,500): Arctic Voices in Art and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso and Skibotn, Norway, (July 9-12, 2019) May 2019 McGill University, Montreal, Canada Internal Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant ($6,000): Joe the Pressman: How and African-born man Refused a Life of Slavery in Canada April 2019 McGill University, Montreal, Canada Arts Research Incentive Grant: ($2,500): Slavery in Quebec: The Impact of Cold Climates on the Enslaved in Temperate Region *awarded to a professor to support