Undergraduate Research Awards

Honours students Amy Milne (WGS) and Billy-Ray Belcourt (Comparative Literature) are the recipients of six-month research stipends each from the Office of the Vice-President (Research) to work with faculty in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies. There are only five of these given out across the faculty each year. Please click on the title above for the full story.

5 March 2015

Honours students Amy Milne (WGS) and Billy-Ray Belcourt (Comparative Literature) are the recipients of six-month research stipends each from the Office of the Vice-President (Research) to work with faculty in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies.

Amy Milne will work with Dr. Michelle Meagher to consider the relationship between the feminist periodical Heresies (1977-1992) and one of its most influential editors and contributors, Lucy Lippard. Amy's research will trace Lippard's intellectual trajectory, particularly during the Heresies years, to reflect on how working in and with Heresies shaped Lippard's intellectual practices and, accordingly, influenced the broader field of feminist art.

Billy-Ray Belcourt will work with Dr. Chloë Taylor to examine the intersections between critical prison studies, critical animal studies, and decolonial studies. He will research the ways in which incarceration functions in Canada and its role, like the reserve and residential school systems, in containing indigenous bodies to empty Indigenous lands for settler colonial expansion. Billy-Ray will also explore the ways in which settler colonialism functions to erase and exploit both animal and indigenous bodies. As part of his research project, Billy-Ray will organize a teach-in for WGS students.