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. Communication Studies, McGill University, 2015 M.A. Communication and Culture, Ryerson University & York University, 2007 B.A. (Honours), Criminology, University of Windsor, 2001 ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE 2018 – present Assistant Professor, School of Creative Industries Faculty of Communication and Design (FCAD) Ryerson University, Toronto 2016 – 2018 CIHR Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies and the Department of English and Drama, University of Toronto and University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). 2015 – 2018 Instructor, Department of Visual Studies, UTM and Canadian Studies Program, University College, University of Toronto. 2014 Instructor, Department of Art History & Communication Studies (AHCS), McGill University. 2010-2012 Teaching Assistant, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, and AHCS, McGill University. EXTERNAL GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2019-21 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.” 2018 Aid to Scholarly Publishing Program Grant ($8,000), Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture (Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2019). 2016-18 SSHRC-Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship ($140, 000), University of Toronto, “Visualizing Blackface Minstrelsy in Canada: Seeing Race, Negotiating Identities, 1890-1959.” INTERNAL GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Curriculum Vitae – Cheryl L. Thompson, Ph.D. Page 1 of 14 Ryerson University 2018-19 SRC Seed Grant ($6880), Faculty of Communication and Design, “Newspapers, Theatres, and the Spaces of Black Performance in Toronto.” McGill University 2012-13 Max Stern-McCord Museum Fellowship ($20,000), Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas. 2012-12 Charles Bronfman and Alex Paterson Top Up Award ($10,000), McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. 2012-13 Margaret Gillett Graduate Research Award ($500), Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. 2012 Fred and Betty Price Award ($7,500), Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas- McCord Museum 2011-12 Media@McGill Research Fellowship ($11,000). WRITING AWARDS 2014 Linda F. Dietz Graduate Essay Prize ($500), Canadian Journal of History. 2012 Graduate Best Paper Prize in Gender and Women’s Studies ($500), Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, McGill University. 2006 Graduate Student Article Competition ($300), Communication & Culture, Ryerson University, 2nd Prize. TEACHING AWARDS 2010-11 Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Teaching Award ($500), McGill University. PUBLICATIONS (single-authored, unless otherwise noted) Refereed Books (anticipated 2020). Uncle: Race, Nostalgia and the Politics of Loyalty. Toronto: Coach House Books. Curriculum Vitae – Cheryl L. Thompson, Ph.D. Page 2 of 14 (2019) Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press. Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters (In-press) Thompson, Cheryl & Crooks, Julie. (Spring, 2020) “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. (Accepted) (Spring, 2021). “Black Canada and Why the Archival Logic of Memory Needs Reform.” In Les Ateliers de l'éthique/Ethics Forum, special issue The Ethical Challenges of Recovering Historical Memory. Jean-Philippe Royer and Anne-Marie Reynaud, Eds., Montreal: Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ)/Center for Research on Ethics (CRE). (Under review) (Fall, 2020). “From Venus to Olympia: Beyoncé, Fashion, and the Limits of Visual Culture.” In Fashion Studies, Issue 3. Ben Barry and Alison Matthews David, eds. Toronto: Ryerson University. (Under review). Thompson, Cheryl & Jabouin, Emilie (Fall, 2020). “The Black Press in Canada During Jim Crow: Transnational Conversations, Diasporic Migration, 1890s to 1950s.” In The Arts in the Age of Jim Crow, special issue, American Studies. Lucy Caplan and Kristen M. Turner, Eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2019) “Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site and Creolization: The Material and Visual Culture of Archival Memory,” African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2019.1611325. (2019) “Locating ‘Dixie’ in Newspaper Discourse and Theatrical Performance in Toronto, 1880s to 1920s.” Canadian Review of American Studies (49) 2, 205-25. DOI: 10.3138/cras.2017-032. (2018) “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. Curriculum Vitae – Cheryl L. Thompson, Ph.D. Page 3 of 14 (Winter 2015). “I’s in Town, Honey’: Reading Aunt Jemima Advertising in Canadian Print Media, 1919 to 1962.” Journal of Canadian Studies 49 (1), 205-37. DOI: 10.3138/jcs.49.1.205. (2015). “Cultivating Narratives of Race, Faith, and Community: The Dawn of Tomorrow, 1923–1971.” Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d’histoire 50 (1), 30- 67. (2015) “Neoliberalism, Soul Food, and the Weight of Black Women.” Feminist Media Studies 15 (5), 794-812. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2014.1003390. 2009 “Black Women and Hair as a Matter of Being.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 38 (8), 831-856. DOI: 10.1080/00497870903238463. Edited Journal Articles and Book Chapters in Edited Collections (In-press) (Spring, 2020). “Representing Misogynoir in Canadian News Media: From BLMTO to Marci Ien.” In Women in Popular Culture in Canada. Laine Zisman Newman, Ed. Toronto: Canadian Scholar / Women’s Press. (2019) “Rethinking the Archive in the Public Sphere.” Roundtable on History for Non- Historians, Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d’histoire 54 (1-2), 32-8, DOI: 10.3138/cjh.ach.54.1-2.04. (2019) “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. (2018) “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. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/public. (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. (2013) “Contesting the Aunt Jemima Trademark through Feminist Art: Why is she still smiling?” n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, 31, 65–72. Curriculum Vitae – Cheryl L. Thompson, Ph.D. Page 4 of 14 (2011) “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, 95–135. (2009) “Black Women and Identity: What’s Hair Got to Do With It?” Michigan Feminist Studies, 22, 78–90. (2007) “Standing in the Shadows of America: Afro-Diasporic Oral Culture, and the Emancipation of Canadian Hip-Hop.” Canadian Theatre Review, 130, 113–15. Book Reviews (Fall, 2018) 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), 576-78. DOI: 10.3138/cjh.ach.53.3.br31. Summer, 2018 Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez in Herizons, 32 (2), 34. (Fall, 2017) Griffintown by Marie Hélène Poitras (translated by Sheila Fischman) in Herizons, 31 (2), 38. (Fall, 2017) de book of Mary by Pamela Mordecai in Herizons, 31 (2), 38. (Spring– Summer/printemps–été 2017) 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), 145-147. (Dec., 2016) Black Women’s Portrayals on Reality Television: The New Sapphire, edited by Donnetrice C. Allison in Journal of Communication, 66, E5–E7. Articles in Popular Publications (Nov. 28, 2019). “Harriet Tubman film does not deserve the Twitter hate,” The Conversation. (Oct. 23, 2019). “Trudeau Survived. Now Stop Pretending Canada Is a Diverse Paradise,” The New York Times. (Oct. 7, 2019). “Why Blackface Persists and What Historians Can Do to Change It,” Activehistory.ca. (Sept. 26, 2019). “Trudeau and blackface: it's time to stop a practice that's as Canadian as hockey,” The National. (Sept. 19, 2019). “Why Trudeau’s ‘brownface’ photo is not shocking,” Toronto Star. Curriculum Vitae – Cheryl L. Thompson, Ph.D.