CIH Fellows 2011 - 2012

Annual Fellows 2011-2012

 

Charlene Elliott received her PhD in Communication from Carleton University. 

She holds a Canada Research Chair in Food Marketing, Policy and Children's Health. Dr. Elliott is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture and jointly appointed with the Faculty of Kinesiology.

Dr. Elliott's Fellowship project is titled Eatertainment and the Marketing of Children's Food. Tracing back to the 1920s, the research details the ways that food as a commercial product has been marketed to children. Dr. Elliott is particularly interested in the rise and transformation of children's packaged foods, and how the promotion of “fun food” raises fascinating questions about health, policy, children's relationships with food—and even childhood itself. Her project combines qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, along with textual analysis and secondary research, in order to document and interrogate the complex and expansive nature of children’s food marketing. 

Eatertainment and the Marketing of Children’s Food examines the symbolic appeals of child-oriented food products, and also presents the results of focus groups (with 225 children), in-depth interviews (with 60 parents) and surveys (with 150 parents) to reveal the impact this kind of symbolic marketing has on attitudes toward food, eating, health/nutrition and consumption. Overall, the project is concerned with the theoretical and practical questions arising from the promotion of “eatertainment” in children’s packaged food products.

Lisa Hughes received her Ph.D. in the History of Art from Indiana University.  She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies.

Dr. Hughes’ Fellowship project is titled “Representations of Nonélite Roman Women on Augustan Funerary Monuments.”  It aims to show the manner in which select nonélite women, during the reign of the emperor Augustus (27 BCE-14CE), were perceived as members of Roman society and more specifically – what legal and funerary obligations were performed.  What were these obligations when compared to freeborn ruling élite women?  The project focuses on approximately 350-window relief funerary monuments from Italy that incorporate portraiture and inscriptions.

Nancy Janovicek received her Ph.D. in History from Simon Fraser University.  She is an Associate Professor in the Department of History. 

Dr. Janovicek’s Fellowship project is titled “Conflicts and Coalitions in the Back-to-the-land Movement, West Kootenays, British Columbia, 1950-1990.”  The project seeks to understand the political meaning and legacies of the 1960s.  It uses the methodologies of micro-history and oral history to examine how “new homesteaders” (e.g. counter-culturalists, communards, draft resisters, and well-educated professionals) in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia were part of an international movement who relocated to rural areas to grow their own food and live an ecologically sustainable lifestyle.  This research challenges certain theoretical perspectives that argue that this movement was evidence of the decline of the radical politics of the 1960s, and argues that they continue to have an impact on political engagement in the 1970s and 1980s.

Francis Spratt Graduate Student Fellow 2011-2012  

Kirsten Inglis holds her M.A. in English from Dalhousie University.  She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. 

Ms. Inglis' Fellowship project, titled " 'Delivered at Second Hand': Translation, Gifting, and the Politics of Authorship in Tudor Women's Writing," explores the political implications of translation as a genre and the ways in which early modern women writers evince a distinct and often politically motivated authorial voice through literary translation.  Translation as a genre is often dismissed as an activity of reproduction rather than the more valorized literary activity of production and is consequently an area of literary studies that demands more exploration. The project focuses on Tudor women's presentation bound translations as literature, art, and artefact and considers works by Mary Bassett (d. 1572), Jane Seager (fl. 1589), Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621), and Esther Inglis (1571-1624).

 Undergraduate Student Fellow 2011-2012

Jaqueline Webb is an undergraduate student at the University of Calgary completing an Honours major in Psychology. 

Ms. Webb’s Fellowship project is titled, “Parents’ and Children’s Experiences of When Language Brokering was Helpful and Unhelpful.”  It deals with children and adolescents functioning as informal translators and interpreters for parents and other family members of immigrant families in health-care settings.  This phenomenon is referred to as “language brokering.”  Using interpretative-phenomenological analysis, the project examines whether language brokering was helpful or unhelpful among a study group of immigrant parents and adult children.  The study provides insight into an increasing circumstance of health-care in culturally diverse Canada. She will investigate the experience of language brokering in educational and healthcare settings.