Post-Doc, City-Region Studies Centre
Postdoctoral Fellow
Thesis Title: Putting Animals on Display: Geographies of Taxidermy Practice
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Dr Rob Shields
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About
I describe myself as a cultural geographer and freelance curator.
My past five years of research - in which time I completed a Masters and PhD at the University of Glasgow wholly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council - were dedicated to the exploration of human and animal lives connected through the cultural practice of taxidermy.
This research critically examined the craft worlds and knowledge-practices of taxidermists, past and present, and their material culture of animal remains. To date, I have published on this research in international peer-reviewed journals and have been a co-curator of taxidermy artwork exhibitions at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.
I am presently based in Edmonton, Canada where I recently created and curated the exhibition "Fashioning Feathers: Dead Birds, Millinery Crafts and the Plumage Trade” (www.fashioningfeathers.com) in association with the University of Alberta's Material Culture Institute. A revamped version of this show recently opened at the Royal Alberta Museum: http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/events/exhibits/feature.cfm?id=10
I am currently a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta's City-Region Studies Centre. As a postdoctoral fellow with the CRSC, I am curating Strip Appeal, an ideas design competition and traveling exhibit intended to stimulate and showcase creative design proposals for the adaptive reuse of small-scale strip-malls. This work is part of Rob Shields’ SSHRC-funded project “Reimagining the Mini-Mall.”
Visit www.strip-appeal.com for more details.
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