Joan Schwartz, Queen's University

Research

Read how they describe their research on their Queen's University profile.

History of Photography Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Geographical Imagination Early Landscape/Travel Photography Photography in Canada Photographic Archives Photographic Materiality and Meaning The Photograph as Art/Fact/Artifact Photographically Illustrated Books

Latest funding

Picturing Canada: photographic images and geographical imaginings in British North America, 1839-1889
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$186,845
Envisioning Canada: the contribution of photographic publications to the creation of a national imaginary in mid-nineteenth-century Canada
SSHRC · 2006 · Principal investigator
$44,393

All 2 grants and awards

No publications available.

Picturing Canada: photographic images and geographical imaginings in British North America, 1839-1889

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Schwartz, Joan M.

Keywords: history of photography in Canada; nineteenth-century visual culture; geographical imagination; social history of photographic practice; photographic archives

$186,845

Envisioning Canada: the contribution of photographic publications to the creation of a national imaginary in mid-nineteenth-century Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Schwartz, Joan M.

Keywords: sense of place; landscape and identity; photography; print culture; visual representation; nineteenth-century Canada; nation-building

$44,393

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.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: History of Photography Dear Professor Schwartz, 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]. Your research on history of photography connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] 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]