Public Scholars Initiative alumna, Jessica Hallenbeck, has won the Canadian Association of Geographers’ Starkey-Robinson Award for Graduate Research on Canada, in recognition of high-quality graduate research that furthers understanding of the geography of Canada.
Dr. Hallenbeck’s research expands on Women in Fish: We Have Stories, a twenty-minute documentary film inspired by Coast Salish / Sahtu Dene storyteller Rosemary Georgeson’s experiences in the commercial fishing industry, and playwright Marie Clement's longstanding project Women in Fish: Hours of Water.
Together Dr. Hallenbeck and Georgeson created a feature-length documentary film and interview archive that explores the interconnections between Indigenous women's labor, water, fish, and urbanization.
Dr. Hallenbeck will be continuing her work in the fall, in a SSHRC postdoc at SFU’s School of Interactive Art and Technology, where she will be working with Georgeson and her postdoctoral supervisor Kate Hennessey to create a museum exhibition from her award-winning doctoral research.