Anne Whitelaw
Associate Professor
Office: 3-91A FAB     Phone: 492-7597
E-mail: whitelaw@ualberta.ca

Areas of teaching and research

Teaching	History of 20th Century visual culture in Canada, history of advertising, theories of exhibition and visual culture, and research methods.
Research	Cultural institutions in Canada and popular discourses of art history in Canada and the United States. I am currently completing a book on the exhibition of Canadian art at the National Gallery of Canada between 1980 and 1995, and editing an anthology of new writing on Canadian art history for Oxford University Press.

Honors and awards

2005	University of Alberta - HFASS Travel Grant University of Alberta - Conference Fund
2000, 2001, 2002	University of Alberta Support for Advancement of Scholarship Grant
2000-01	University of Alberta SSHRC Junior Faculty Development Grant
1995-97	SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program in Visual and Cultural Studies University of Rochester
1995-96	National Gallery of Canada Fellowship in Contemporary Canadian Art

Major administrative responsibilities

2003-2005	Faculty of Arts Research Committee
2002-2005	Fine Arts Representative, AAS:UA
2000-2003	Faculty of Arts Teaching Committee
2000-2005	Graduate Program Advisor, History of Art, Design and Visual Culture
1999-02	Coordinator Division of History of Art, Design and Visual Culture

Selected publications/Creative activities

"Placing Aboriginal Art at the National Gallery of Canada" Canadian Journal of Communications (forthcoming, 2006) Building a Collection: 80 Years at the Edmonton Art Gallery (curator), Art Gallery of Alberta Jan 21 to March 26, 2006 “Theorizing in the Bush: Camping, Pedagogy, Tom Thomson, and Cultural Studies” in Richard Cavell and Imre Szeman, eds, Canadian Spaces/Cultural Spaces:Cultural Studies in Canada and Beyond. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (forthcoming 2006).

“To Better Know Ourselves: J. Russell Harper’s Painting in Canada: A History” Journal of Canadian Art History 26(1-2), 2005, 8-33.

“Parolin Products for Busy People” Fuse. 26 (3), Fall 2003, 47-48.

“‘Whiffs of Balsam, Pine and Spruce’: Art Museums and the Negotiation of a ‘Canadian’ Aesthetic,” in J. Berland and S. Hornstein (eds), Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions and the Value(s) of Art, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000, 122-137.

“Nationalism and Globalization: Exhibitions and the Circulation of Objects,” International Journal of Canadian Studies 16, Fall 1997, 261-267.

“The Statistical Imperative: Representing the Nation in Exhibitions of Contemporary Art,” Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 1:1, Spring 1997, 22-41.

“Land Spirit Power: First Nations Cultural Production and Canadian Nationhood” International Journal of Canadian studies, 12, Fall 1995, 31-49.

Work in progress

The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century, contributing co-editor, with Brian Foss and Sandra Paikowsky, Oxford University Press.

The Nation on Display: Canadian Art at the National Gallery of Canada (book ms)