Dr. Shaunasea Brown has won the CFR’s 2022-2023 Mary McEwan Memorial Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled Art Routes: Locating Second-Generation Black Caribbean Canadian Women’s Perspectives.
Dr. Shaunasea Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies program at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON. Her research collaborates with Black women artists of Caribbean descent and uses music, photography, visual and performance art to unpack second-generation understandings of “home.” This work provides Black feminist art critique to illuminate not only the artwork of the artists she studies, but also to amplify their wider communities as key contributors to our Canadian landscape who reshape how we understand place, care, and relationality. She teaches courses such as Toward Freedom, Being Black in Diaspora and Beyond Multiculturalism. Her current playlist includes Mortimer, Bob Marley, and Shenseea. Brown is also a co-founder of a new network, Black Researchers of Southwestern Ontario (BRSO).
Read more about Dr. Brown and her dissertation at this link: https://www.yorku.ca/cfr/mary-mcewan-memorial-award/
Nominations for the 2023-24 Mary McEwan Award are now open. See this link for more information: https://www.yorku.ca/cfr/mary-mcewan-award-nomination-process-2023/