Dorota Glowacka, Dalhousie University

Research

Read how they describe their research on their Dalhousie University profile.

material culture comparative genocide national heritage critical museology Holocaust studies Indigenous-Jewish relations Indigenous studies settler colonialism

Latest papers

Expanded Tag Genomes for Cross-Domain Recommendation
2026
Don't Get Ahead of Yourself: A Critical Study on Data Leakage in Offline Evaluation of Sequential Recommenders
2025 · senior author
Paths and Recreation: Inclusive Recommendation of Physical Activities in your Neighbourhood
2025 · senior author

All 167 publications

Latest funding

Trauma, memory, and material culture: A conversation between the National Museum of the American Indian and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$24,980
Memory Activism and Collaborative Processes of Counter-Memorialization
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$235,312
Jewish memory in today's Poland and the Polish national narrative
SSHRC · 2006 · Principal investigator
$56,715

All 3 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 167 publications.

01

Expanded Tag Genomes for Cross-Domain Recommendation

Denis Kotkov, Alan J. Medlar, Dorota Głowacka, Martin J. Halvey

2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1145/3786304.3787950

02

Don't Get Ahead of Yourself: A Critical Study on Data Leakage in Offline Evaluation of Sequential Recommenders

Huy Hoang Le, Yang Liu, Alan J. Medlar, Dorota Głowacka

20252 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1145/3705328.3759329

03

Paths and Recreation: Inclusive Recommendation of Physical Activities in your Neighbourhood

Denis Kotkov, Alan J. Medlar, Dorota Głowacka

20251 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1145/3698204.3716473

04

Evaluating the Contextual Integrity of False Positives in Algorithmic Travel Surveillance

Alina Wernick, Alan J. Medlar, Sofia Söderholm, Dorota Głowacka

20251 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1145/3715275.3732139

05

Disentangling User and Item Sequence Patterns in Sequential Recommendation Data Sets

K. Liu, Yang Liu, Alan J. Medlar, Dorota Głowacka

20251 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1145/3705328.3748042

06

The Dark Matter of Serendipity in Recommender Systems

Denis Kotkov, Alan J. Medlar, Triin Kask, Dorota Głowacka

202416 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1145/3627508.3638342

07

Gender-Based and Sexual Violence in the Holocaust: On the Importance of Writing this History Today

Dorota Głowacka, Regina Mühlhäuser

The Journal of Holocaust Research20249 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1080/25785648.2024.2370632

08

On the Negative Perception of Cross-domain Recommendations and Explanations

Denis Kotkov, Alan J. Medlar, Yang Liu, Dorota Głowacka

20245 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1145/3626772.3657735

09

Behind the Scenes: Adapting Cinematography and Editing Concepts to Navigation in Virtual Reality

Alan J. Medlar, Mari Tatsuko Lehtikari, Dorota Głowacka

20244 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3642412

10

Unexplored Frontiers: A Review of Empirical Studies of Exploratory Search

Alan J. Medlar, Denis Kotkov, Dorota Głowacka

ACM SIGIR Forum20243 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1145/3687273.3687278

Trauma, memory, and material culture: A conversation between the National Museum of the American Indian and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Glowacka, Dorota

Keywords: material culture; comparative genocide; national heritage; critical museology; Holocaust studies; Indigenous-Jewish relations; Indigenous studies; settler colonialism; settler-Indigenous relations; Canada-US relations

$24,980

Memory Activism and Collaborative Processes of Counter-Memorialization

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Nagler, Solomon P.

Keywords: difficult heritage; counter-monument; Holocaust; genocide studies; research-creation; memorialization; critical museology; memory studies

$235,312

Jewish memory in today's Poland and the Polish national narrative

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Glowacka, Dorota

Keywords: Polish-Jewish relations; memory; holocaust; national narratives; national community; ethics; identity; witnessing

$56,715

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Department of English
Faculty of Computer Science
Computerscience

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Fernando Paulovich

Faculty of Computer Science

3 shared papers, latest 2021

Evangelos Milios

Computerscience

2 shared papers, latest 2021

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: material culture Dear Professor Glowacka, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Expanded Tag Genomes for Cross-Domain Recommendation" (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Trauma, memory, and material culture: A conversation between the National Museum of the American Indian and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]