My CV

EDUCATION

2007 – 2011 • Currently a PhD student in Communication Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON.

2005 – 2007 • Completed a Masters (MA) in Media Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, QC.

2003 – 2005 • Completed a double major in Communication Studies and Political Science, with honours, at Concordia University, Montreal, QC.

2002 • Completed one semester of undergraduate studies at North Island College, Courtenay, BC. Major: Communication Studies.

2001 – 2002 • Completed one and a half years of undergraduate studies at Langara College, Vancouver, BC. Major: Political Science.

EDUCATION AWARDS

• Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral (SSHRC), 2008-2011 ($105,000)
• Carleton University Graduate Scholarship, 2007-2011 ($16,000)
• Carleton University Dean of Graduate Studies Academic Excellence Scholarship for Domestic Students, 2007-2011 ($24,000)
• SSHRC Graduate Fellowship – MA Media Studies, 2005/06 ($17,000)
• Concordia University Graduate Fellowship – MA Media Studies, 2005-2007 ($12,000)
• Nicolas Diniacopoulos – BBC Graduate Fellowship, 2005 ($8,000)
• Campaign for a New Millenium Student Contribution Graduate Scholarship – Arts and Science, 2005 ($1,000)
• ASFA Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Life, 2004
• Canadian Millenium Scholarship Bursary, Federal, 2004, ($3,500)

OTHER EXPERIENCE

2001 – Present • Director and Founder | Cinema Politica Film Network

2004 – Present • Executive Board Member | Documentary Organization of Canada, Quebec Chapter

2008 • Pre-Selection Committee Member | RIDM – Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (Montreal’s international documentary film festival), 11th Edition

2007 • Jury Member | Camera au poing section | RIDM – Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, 10th Edition

2003 – 2007 • Project Coordinator and Co-founder | überculture – a political media arts non-profit based in Montreal

CONFERENCE TALKS, PANELS, AND GUEST LECTURES

June 7, 2009 • “Battling Islam on Western Screens: Information Wars and Documentary Representations of the Other” | Presentation at the RACE Conference | McGill University | Montreal, Quebec

May 290, 2009 • “Battling Islam on Western Screens: Information Wars and Documentary Representations of the Other” | Presentation at Congress 2009 | Carleton University | Ottawa, Ontario

November 18, 2008 • “Representing Race, Religion and Gender: The Female Suicide Bomber in Documentary Cinema” | Guest Lecture | Gender and Communication (MCOM 1010) | Maria-Jose Frere, Assistant pofessor

November 7, 2008 • “You are On Indian Land: Distributing a Different Kind of ‘Indian’” | Presentation with Tom Waugh at the Gimme Some Truth Documentary Conference | Winnipeg, Manitoba

2008 (July 20-25) • “Touring with Wal-Town: Screening Documentary off the Beaten Path” | Paper presentation in the Audience Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research at its Digital Divides Conference | Stockholm, Sweden

2008 (June 12) • “Activist and Solidarity Documentary in Canada since 2001: Taking Stock” | Panel Co-Chaired by Thomas Waugh, Concordia University and Ezra Winton, Carleton University | At the 2008 FSAC Congress | UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia

2008 (June 12) • “Touring with Wal-Town: Screening Documentary off the Beaten Path” | Paper presentation as part of the 2008 FSAC Congress | UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia

2008 (March 14) • “Mother, Daughter, Martyr, Killer: Recent Documentary Representations of ‘the Female Suicide Bomber’” | Paper presentation as part of the Memory as Medium: Experience, Exchange, Representation – Communication Graduate Conference | Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

2008 | “The Myth of the Thesis of Canada’s ‘Cinema of Failure’” | Guest Lecture | …

2007 (May 28) • “You are on Indian Land: Foregrounding Distribution and Exhibition” | Challenge for Change/Société nouvelle 40th Anniversary Panel | Paper presentation as part of the Social Science and Humanities Congress (as part of the FSAC Congress) | University of Saskatoon, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

2006 (October 17) • “Multiplexes for Multicultures: Hollywood, Cinemahouses and Canada’s Urban Mosaic” | presented at the 2006 FSAC Congress, The City: A Festival of Knowledge | York University, Toronto, Ontario

2006 (Octobery 10) • “Docs get Digital: New pipes for old dreams” | presentation at the Documentary Organization of Canada-Quebec Distribution Conference Think Tank | Montreal, Quebec

2006 (August 9) • “Networking Global Realities: Documentary Film and New Emerging Information Networks” | presented at the Visible Evidence XIII Conference | Sao Paulo, Brazil