Faculty in Communication Studies and Cultural Studies are extremely active scholars. Below you can find a handful of examples from some of our faculty members’ research and creation endeavours. Please also feel free to visit our faculty and staff page for a broader listing of department members, and you can click on individual profiles for an in-depth view of each person’s work.
Alexandra Boutros
- Boutros, Alexandra. 2020. The impossibility of being Drake: Or, what it means to be a successful (Black) Canadian rapper. Global Hip Hop Studies 1, no. 1, 95–114.
- “Alexandra Boutros: A Cultural Studies Approach to the Communicative Praxis of Talking to Covidiots.” (2022, April 14). Uploaded by Trent Speakers on YouTube.
- Boutros, Alexandra. 2020. “The Edges of a Pandemic: Pseudoscience, Alter:native Medicine, and Belief in the Age of COVID.” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 41, 42–49.
Shaunasea Brown
- Laurier News spotlight: Get to know Laurier Communication Studies Assistant Professor Shaunasea Brown
- Link to my 2018 open access article, “Don’t Touch My Hair” from Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies.
- Link to my October 2023 discussion “Building Collective Care in the Classroom” from The Laurier Teaching Podcast.
Colleen Kim Daniher
- Daniher, C. (2020). Looking at Pauline Johnson: Gender, Race, and Delsartism’s Legible Body. Theatre Journal 72(1), 1-20. Winner of the 2021 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Outstanding Article Award.
- Participatory Food Performance, Feast: Eating with Winnie and Sara (Fluxus Style), shown as part of the Onoto Watanna’s Cattle at 100: Indomitable Women of the West During the Chinese Exclusion Era conference, Calgary, July 30, 2023.
Greig de Peuter
- As part of my ongoing research on digital media unions with Nicole Cohen, we recently published our book New Media Unions: Organizing Digital Journalists and collaborated on a video about union organizing in digital media, and we track media union drives on this timeline.
- My research collaborations on worker ownership in the media and tech sector have generated two recent co-authored reports: Co-operatives, Work, and the Digital Economy: A Knowledge Synthesis Report and Sharing Like We Mean It: Working Co-operatively in the Cultural and Tech Sectors.
- Addressing cultural work amid the COVID-19 pandemic, my article with Kate Oakley and Madison Trusolino, “The Pandemic Politics of Cultural Work: Collective Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis,” was recently published in the International Journal of Cultural Policy, and a community report on artists and basic income, co-authored with Rebecca Applebaum and Nahed Mansour, is forthcoming.
Jonathan Finn
- 2023: SSHRC Insight Development Grant for “The Self-Tracking Project: Strava and the Structuring of Sport.”
- 2023: Donald F. Morgenson Award for Teaching Excellence (in the Innovation category).
- 2020: Beyond the Finish Line: Images, Evidence and the History of the Photo-Finish. Montreal: McGill-Queens.
Barbara Jenkins
- Jenkins, Barbara. (2022). “Smart City Toronto: Extraction, Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism.” Canadian Journal of Communication, 47(2), 247–270.
- Jenkins, Barbara (2017). Eros and Economy: Jung, Deleuze, Sexual Difference. London: Routledge.
Jeremy Hunsinger
- Hunsinger, Jeremy. 2022. “For a More Playful Communication Studies.” Communication+ 1 9, no. 2, Article 3.
- Hunsinger, Jeremy. 2022. “Introduction to Special Section: Academic Automation, Machine Un/Learning and Artificial Non/Intelligences.” Fast Capitalism 19, no. 1. You can also check out the whole special section.
- Hunsinger, Jeremy. 2020. “Critical Internet Studies.” In Second International Handbook of Internet Research, edited by Jeremy Hunsinger, Matthew M. Allen, and Lisbeth Klastrup, 263–79. Springer.
Jordan Kinder
- Anne Pasek, Cindy Kaiying Lin, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, and Jordan B. Kinder. Digital Energetics. Minneapolis, MN: meson.press and University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
- Kinder, Jordan B. “Solar Infrastructure as Media of Resistance, or, Indigenous Solarities against Settler Colonialism.” South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 1 (2021): 63–76.
Sara Matthews
- Matthews, Sara. 2023. “Visualizing Drone Ethnography in the Shadows of Distributive War.” In Creative Methods in Military Studies, edited by Alice Cree, pp. 25–40. Rowan & Littlefield.
- Matthews, Sara and Margrethe McKoen. 2022. Canadian Cold War Propaganda Posters: Lessons from Bea Alerte and Justin Case. This collaborative exhibit explores the gendered aspects of Canadian civil defence publicity through an analysis of early Cold War propaganda posters.
- Abu Hatoum, Nayrouz, Sara Matthews, Brett Story, and Anna Visan. 2022. Visualizing Security Studies Research. Surveillance and Society Vol 20(1):115-124; also available as a podcast episode.
Jade Miller
- Book chapter in edited volume:
- Miller, J. (2021) “Video-On-Demand: Formal challengers for Nollywood’s informal domestic market” in Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines, Eds. Paul McDonald, Timothy Havens, and Courtney Brannon Donoghue. New York: NYU Press, 259 – 276.
- Journal article:
- Miller, J. (2020) “‘Counting’ informal media industries” Media Industries Journal, 7 (2): 25 – 43.
- Book:
- Miller, J. (2016) Nollywood Central. London: British Film Institute Press.
Nathan Rambukkana
- SSHRC Insight Development Grant “Exploring Digital Intimacies in the Emergent Field of Platform Studies through Haptics” (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2018–2020)
- Rambukkana, Nathan. (2015). Fraught Intimacies: Non/Monogamy in the Public Sphere. UBC Press. You can read the introduction here.
- Rambukkana, Nathan, Ed. (2021). Intersectional Automations: Robots, AI, Algorithms, and Equity.
Lindsay Thistle
- Currently working on a manuscript about identity, rhetoric and politics in contemporary Canadian theatre and plays about war.
- “Investigating Afghanada: Situating the CBC Radio Drama in the Context and Politics of Canada and the War on Terror.” Theatre Research in Canada 1 (2016): 91-101.
- “Once Upon a Nation: Fables & Fairy Tales in Canadian Plays about War.” Warfare, Myths & Fairy Tales. Maartje Abbenhuis and Sara Buttsworth. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017. 93-116.