Women’s and Gender Studies Professor Dr. Angela Failler will continue her internationally-recognized research into public memory and the afterlife of the 1985 Air India bombings, thanks to the联邦政府的任ewalof her appointment asTier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Culture and Public Memory这项奖励在五年期间价值500,000美元。
This topic remains timely and relevant for its focus on how practices of remembrance and memorialization might be used to grapple with traumatic loss.
Dr. Angela Failler
“The bombings were an incident of mass violence and transnational scope that continues to have social and political resonance in and beyond Canada,” said Failler. “The renewal of my CRC term will allow me to further this research, including collaborations with other scholars and artists, some of whom lost relatives in the bombings.”
Failler is interested in ways that people find critical hope through expressions of remembrance that acknowledge the past as inherently connected to the present and the future.
她说：“这个话题仍然及时而相关，因为它的重点是如何使用纪念和纪念的实践来应对创伤的损失，以及它在加拿大背景下揭示了种族主义和归属和其他人的概念的内容。”。
“Dr. Angela Failler’s commitment to training students, community involvement, and collaborative research reflects the quality and significance of research undertaken at UWinnipeg,” said Dr. Jino Distasio, Vice-President, Research and Innovation. “She is well deserving of this prestigious Canada Research Chair renewal.”
Enhancing public education through collaboration
Failler is also a core team member of an international network and research project calledThinking Through the Museum (TTTM)。在她的第一个CRC任期期间，她带领TTTM完成了该项目的开发阶段。TTTM现在正在启动一项为期7年的SSHRC资助合作赠款项目，Failler与Concordia，Carleton和McGill University的研究人员共同领导。第二阶段建立了加拿大，波兰，荷兰，南非和美国的全球大学，博物馆和社区合作伙伴之间的联系。亚愽娱乐app
The project’s key research question is based in collaborative methodology: How might scholars, museum curators, and members of marginalized groups, working in sustained collaboration, enhance public education on contentious histories, and redress their present-day legacies?
Failler共同领导TTTM的研究集群之一，即Museum Queeries, with Concordia University art historian Dr. Michelle McGeough and UWinnipeg English scholar Dr. Heather Milne.Museum Queeriesprioritizes Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and queer (2S+LGBTTQ) contributions and interventions into museums and museum studies in order to help change the face of museums, cultural heritage sites, and other public memory institutions and improve responsiveness to calls for social justice.
Failler’s CRC renewal will also allow her to continue serving as director of UWinnipeg’s文化研究研究中心（CRICS），她于2018年成立。
她说：“即使在大流行中，奇特也是一个非常宝贵的空间。”“它支持文化研究人员和学生的工作，并提醒我们我们在自己校园里拥有的知识社区。亚愽娱乐app毫无疑问，克里克斯将Uwinnipeg作为一个有影响力的文化研究进行的地方。”
Across her various projects, Failler commits a significant amount of energy to mentorship, helping students and emerging scholars build research skills. She supervises undergraduate and graduate Research Assistants, as well as post-graduate Research Coordinators, instilling a passion for research that digs deep into vital, and sometimes difficult, histories. In 2012, Failler received theClifford J. Robson Memorial Award for Teaching Excellencein recognition of her commitment to teaching and mentorship, which she will continue to sustain through her CRC term, in and beyond the classroom.
Meet UWinnipeg’s Canada Research Chairs
UWinnipeg’s eight加拿大研究椅(listed in alphabetical order) are world-class scientists and scholars from diverse backgrounds who are working on new discoveries and innovations that help our environment, health, communities and economy thrive:
Dr. Ryan Bullock
加拿大人类环境互动研究主席
Nora Casson博士
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Influences on Water Quality
Dr. Jaime Cidro
加拿大健康与文化研究主席
Dr. Angela Failler
加拿大文化和公共记忆研究主席
Dr. Jeff Martin
Canada Research Chair in Fundamental Symmetries in Subatomic Physics.
Dr. Mary Jane Logan McCallum
加拿大土著人，历史和档案馆的研究主席
朱莉Nagam博士
Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts, Collaboration and Digital Media
Dr. Christopher Wiebe
加拿大量子材料研究主席发现
Failler说：“我很幸运能成为Uwinnipeg的这一特殊CRC之一，我从中学到了很多。”“在温尼伯大学担任CRC职位是一种特权和荣幸，我特别感谢它为我提供对我和其他人重要的问题的机会。”亚愽国际app下载
The加拿大研究椅(CRC) Programenhances research excellence in Canada in the humanities, social sciences, health sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. It is a tri-agency initiative of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR).
