CHERYL L. THOMPSON, PH.D. School of Creative Industries, FCAD, Ryerson University Email: Cheryl.Thompsonatryerson.Ca | Twitter: @Drcherylt
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CHERYL L. THOMPSON, PH.D. School of Creative Industries, FCAD, Ryerson University Email: cheryl.thompsonATryerson.ca | Twitter: @DrCherylT Education Ph.D. 2015, Communication Studies, McGill University. M.A. 2007, Communication and Culture, Ryerson University & York University. B.A. 2001, Honours Criminology, University of Windsor. Positions Ryerson University Assistant Professor, School of Creative Industries, 2018 – University of Toronto Instructor, Canadian Studies Program, 2015-18 University of Toronto Mississauga Instructor, Department of Visual Studies, 2015-18 McGill University Instructor, Department of Art History & Communication Studies, 2014 Teaching Assistant, Art History & Communication Studies, 2010-13 Teaching Assistant, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, 2010-12 Grants Co-applicant, SSHRC Connection Grant ($47,625), “White Skin, Black Masks: Canada's Blackface Secret,” 2020-21. Primary Investigator, SSHRC Insight Development Grant ($48,072), “Newspapers, Minstrelsy and Black Performance at the Theatre: Mapping the Spaces of Nation-Building in Toronto, 1870s to 1930s,” 2019-21. SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Publishing Program Grant ($8,000), Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture, 2019. Primary Investigator, SSHRC-Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship ($140, 000), University of Toronto and the University of Toronto Mississauga, “Visualizing Blackface Minstrelsy in Canada: Seeing Race, Negotiating Identities, 1890-1959,” 2016-18. Scholarly Research Creation (SRC) Seed Grant ($6880), Faculty of Communication and Design, “Newspapers, Theatres, and the Spaces of Black Performance in Toronto,” 2018-19. Max Stern-McCord Museum Fellowship ($20,000), Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas. 2012-13. Charles Bronfman and Alex Paterson Top Up Award ($10,000), McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, 2012-12. Curriculum Vitae – Cheryl L. Thompson, Ph.D. Page 1 of 20 Margaret Gillett Graduate Research Award ($500), Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, 2012-13. Fred and Betty Price Award ($7,500), Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas-McCord Museum, 2012. Media@McGill Research Fellowship ($11,000), 2011-12. Awards and Honours Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS) Ernest Redekop Prize Honourable Mention for “Locating ‘Dixie’ in Newspaper Discourse and Theatrical Performance in Toronto, 1880s to 1920s” (CRAS 49.2), 2019. Linda F. Dietz Graduate Essay Prize ($500), Canadian Journal of History, 2014. Graduate Best Paper Prize in Gender and Women’s Studies, Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, McGill University, 2012. Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Teaching Award, McGill University, 2010-11. Graduate Student Article Competition, Communication & Culture, Ryerson University, 2nd Prize, 2006. Publications (single-authored, unless otherwise noted) Books Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2021. Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2019. Edited Books and Journals “Black Canadian Creativity, Expressive Cultures, and Narratives of Space and Place.” Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of History/Anna/es canadiennes d'histoire, guest editor, under review. Critiques of Canada’s Creative Industries, co-edited with Miranda Campbell. Canadian Scholars Press: Vancouver, in progress. Journal Articles “From Venus to ‘Black Venus’: Beyoncé’s I Have Three Hearts, Fashion and the Limits of Visual Culture.” Fashion Studies (3) 1 (2020): 1-24. “Black Canada and Why the Archival Logic of Memory Needs Reform.” Les Ateliers de l'éthique/Ethics Forum, special issue The Ethical Challenges of Recovering Historical Memory (14) 2 (2020): 76-106. Curriculum Vitae – Cheryl L. Thompson, Ph.D. Page 2 of 20 “Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site and Creolization: The Material and Visual Culture of Archival Memory,” African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (2019), DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2019.1611325. “Locating ‘Dixie’ in Newspaper Discourse and Theatrical Performance in Toronto, 1880s to 1920s.” Canadian Review of American Studies (49) 2 (2019): 205-25. DOI: 10.3138/cras.2017-032. “Rethinking the Archive in the Public Sphere.” Roundtable on History for Non-Historians, Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d’histoire 54 1-2 (2019): 32-8, DOI: 10.3138/cjh.ach.54.1-2.04. “I’s in Town, Honey’: Reading Aunt Jemima Advertising in Canadian Print Media, 1919 to 1962.” Journal of Canadian Studies 49 1 (Winter 2015): 205-37. DOI: 10.3138/jcs.49.1.205. “Cultivating Narratives of Race, Faith, and Community: The Dawn of Tomorrow, 1923–1971.” Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d’histoire 50 1 (2015): 30-67. “Neoliberalism, Soul Food, and the Weight of Black Women.” Feminist Media Studies 15 5 (2015), 794-812. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2014.1003390. “Contesting the Aunt Jemima Trademark through Feminist Art: Why is she still smiling?” n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, 31 (2013): 65–72. “The Visual Culture of Slavery in 18th-Century Halifax: ‘Just Imported…Both Ran Away.’” Genre: A Thematic Journal for Comparative Literature and Classics, Visual Studies. California State University, Long Beach, 31 (2011): 95–135. “Black Women and Hair as a Matter of Being.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 38 8 (2009): 831-856. DOI: 10.1080/00497870903238463. “Black Women and Identity: What’s Hair Got to Do With It?” Michigan Feminist Studies, 22 (2009): 78–90. “Standing in the Shadows of America: Afro-Diasporic Oral Culture, and the Emancipation of Canadian Hip-Hop.” Canadian Theatre Review, 130 (2007): 113–15. Book Chapters (Under review) “Brand Advertising in Contrast in the 1970s: Selling Race and Culture Through Beer.” In Canada’s 19th Century Black Press: Roots and Trajectories of Exceptional Communication and Intellectual Activism. Claudine Bonner, Nina Reid-Maroney, and Boulou Ebanda de B'béri, Eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, expected 2022. Curriculum Vitae – Cheryl L. Thompson, Ph.D. Page 3 of 20 (Forthcoming) Thompson, Cheryl & Crooks, Julie. “Race, Community, and the Picturing of Identities: Photography and the Black Subject in Ontario, 1860 to 1900.” In Unsettling the Great White North: African Canadian History. Michele A. Johnson and Funké Aladejebi, Eds. Toronto: Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and Its Diasporas, 2021. “Representing Misogynoir in Canadian News Media: From BLMTO to Marci Ien.” In Women in Popular Culture in Canada. Laine Zisman Newman, Ed, 26-41. Toronto: Canadian Scholar/Women’s Press, 2020. “Come One, Come All’: Blackface Minstrelsy as a Canadian Tradition and Early Form of Popular Culture.” In Towards an African-Canadian Art History: Art, Memory, and Resistance. Charmaine Nelson, Ed., pp. 95-121. Concord, Ontario: Captus Press, 2018. “The New Afro in a Postfeminist Media Culture: Rachel Dolezal, Beyoncé’s ‘Formation,’ and the Politics of Choice.” In Emergent Feminisms: Challenging a Post-Feminist Media Culture. Jessalynn Keller and Maureen Ryan, Eds., 161-175. New York: Routledge, 2018. “My Ten-Year Dreadlock Journey: Why I Love the ‘kink’ in My Hair… Today.” In Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions, and Transformations. Samantha Kwan and Chris Bobel, Eds., pp. 54-55. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2019. “An Intersectional Analysis of Controlling Images and Neoliberal Meritocracy on Scandal and Empire.” In Neoliberalism and the U.S. Media. Marian Joanne Meyers, Ed., pp. 176-91. New York: Routledge, 2019. “Searching for Black Voices in Canada’s Archives: The Invisibility of a ‘Visible’ Minority.” PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas, Special Issue on Archive/Anarchive/Counter-Archive. May Chew, Susan Lord, Janine Marchessault, Eds., pp. 82-89. Toronto: York University, 2018. “Remembering Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” In The Ward Uncovered: The Archeology of Everyday Life. Michael McClelland, Holly Martelle, Tatum Taylor and John Lorinc, (Eds.), pp. 156-162. Toronto: Coach House Books/Alana Wilcox, 2018. Book Reviews The Selfie Generation: How Our Self Images are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture by Alicia Eler in Herizons, 34 1 (Spring, 2020): 34. The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox by Gerald Horne in Canadian Journal of History 53 3 (Fall, 2018): 576-78. DOI: 10.3138/cjh.ach.53.3.br31. Curriculum Vitae – Cheryl L. Thompson, Ph.D. Page 4 of 20 Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez in Herizons, 32 2 (Summer, 2018): 34. Griffintown by Marie Hélène Poitras (translated by Sheila Fischman) in Herizons, 31 2 (Fall, 2017): 38. de book of Mary by Pamela Mordecai in Herizons, 31 2 (Fall, 2017): 38. Viola Desmond’s Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land by Graham Reynolds with Wanda Robson in Canadian Journal of History 52 1 (Spring– Summer/printemps–été 2017): 145-47. Black Women’s Portrayals on Reality Television: The New Sapphire, edited by Donnetrice C. Allison in Journal of Communication, 66 (Dec., 2016): E5–E7. Online Publications Zoomer “The Anti-Racism Movement: Was 2020 the Year of the Great Awakening?” (Dec. 22, 2020). “Tired of Giving In: How the Actions of Rosa Parks and Viola Desmond Still Resonate Today” (Dec. 1, 2020) The Conversation “Trump has made America nostalgic again for a past that never existed” (Nov. 4, 2020). “Cardi B says ‘shit is gettin’ real’ as coronavirus pandemic reveals cracks in celebrity capitalism” (April 19, 2020). “Harriet Tubman