Gabrielle Moser, Toronto Metropolitan University

Research

photography biopolitics surveillance visual culture contemporary art public pedagogy art education youth culture

Latest papers

Labeur = Labour
E-Artexte (Artexte) · 2026 · senior author
Affidamento as Curatorial Methodology: Feminist Approaches to Pedagogy and Curating in the Work of EMILIA-AMALIA
Journal of Curatorial Studies · 2023 · first author
Ellen Winner, An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse: Art Education from Colonial Times to a Promising Future
Historical Studies in Education / Revue d histoire de l éducation · 2023 · first author

All 64 publications

Latest funding

Photography and Biopolitics: Race, Visibility and Embodiment in 21st Century Image Culture
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$42,241
Photography and Biopolitics: Race, Visibility and Embodiment in 21st Century Image Culture
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$32,278

All 2 grants and awards

64 publications.

01

Labeur = Labour

Ingrid Jones, Gabrielle Moser

E-Artexte (Artexte)2026Senior author

02

Affidamento as Curatorial Methodology: Feminist Approaches to Pedagogy and Curating in the Work of EMILIA-AMALIA

Gabrielle Moser

Journal of Curatorial Studies20231 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1386/jcs_00095_1

03

Ellen Winner, An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse: Art Education from Colonial Times to a Promising Future

Gabrielle Moser

Historical Studies in Education / Revue d histoire de l éducation2023First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.32316/hse-rhe.vi0.5161

04

Editorial Introduction: Reparation and Visual Culture

Adrienne Huard, Gabrielle Moser

Journal of Visual Culture202213 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1177/14704129221093638

05

When Photographs Fail, When Monuments Fall: Photography and Reparations in Canada

Gabrielle Moser

Photography and Culture202211 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1080/17514517.2022.2035985

06

Race, Climate Change and the Photographic Negative in Richard Mosse’s Heat Maps

Gabrielle Moser

Third Text20221 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2022.2074707

07

School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference

Gabrielle Moser

Photography and Culture20215 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1080/17514517.2021.1872198

08

Settler colonialism’s container technologies: photographing crates in the Canadian Arctic (1926–1953)

Gabrielle Moser

Settler Colonial Studies20212 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1080/2201473x.2021.1884427

09

The Arts, Environmental Justice, and the Ecological Crisis

Sria Chatterjee, Jessica L. Horton, Ashley Dawson, Pablo Mukherjee, Shadreck Chirikure, Ayesha Hameed, Macarena Gómez‐Barris, Tao Leigh Goffe, G. Elliot Smith, Andil Gosine, Franklin Ginn, Sonny Assu, Douglas A. Kahn, Andrea Gaynor, Amanda Boetzkes, Julia Lum, Gabrielle Moser, Jennifer Hamilton, Kate Flint, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Simon Schaffer

British Art Studies20203 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-18/conversation

10

Familial ties and citizen claims: photography and early civil rights activism in African–Canadian newspapers

Gabrielle Moser

Visual Studies20201 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1080/1472586x.2020.1827973

Photography and Biopolitics: Race, Visibility and Embodiment in 21st Century Image Culture

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Moser, Gabrielle A.

Keywords: photography; biopolitics; surveillance; visual culture; contemporary art; public pedagogy; art education; youth culture

$42,241

Photography and Biopolitics: Race, Visibility and Embodiment in 21st Century Image Culture

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Moser, Gabrielle A.

Keywords: photography; biopolitics; surveillance; visual culture; contemporary art; public pedagogy; art education; youth culture

$32,278

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, Brain Canada and the New Frontiers in Research Fund.

Frequent collaborators

Image Arts
School of Fine Art and Music
EUC

Co-authors at Toronto Metropolitan University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Andil Gosine

EUC

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Amanda Boetzkes

School of Fine Art and Music

1 shared papers, latest 2020

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: photography Dear Professor Moser, 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 "Labeur = Labour" (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 "Photography and Biopolitics: Race, Visibility and Embodiment in 21st Century Image Culture" (2021), 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]