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Post-Doc, History and Classics
Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow (incoming, August 2011)
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About
Dr. Laurie K. Bertram is a public historian and the Grant Notley Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta. She completed her PhD under the supervision of Franca Iacovetta in the Department of History at the University of Toronto in 2010. Specializing in both memory and trauma and Canadian ethnic history, her work focuses on ‘inauthentic’ and undervalued forms of cultural and sentimental expression, including ghost stories, landscape, souvenirs and clothing.
She recently completed a manuscript on Icelandic-Canadian popular cultural history and is currently researching Icelandic-Aboriginal exchange and material culture in Western Canada. Her most recent work on memory, trauma and material and visual culture is a traveling exhibit, Pioneer Ladies [of the evening]: a commemorative landscape for women on the margins in Western Canada, 1878-1916. The show reworks mugshots of women and historical clothing to create three-dimensional, sentimental and detailed historical biographies of incarcerated women from this period.
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