Felicity Tsering Chödron Hamer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication Studies. She has a background in photography (Dawson Institute of Photography DEC) and holds both a BFA and MA in Art History from Concordia University. She is a Montreal-born recording and performing vocalist, songwriter and mother of two.
Felicity explores the relationship between photography-based media and remembrance. Her doctoral research has been supported by scholarships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC) and Concordia University. In 2020 she was awarded both Concordia’s Stand-Out Graduate Research Award and FRQSC’s Relève étoile Paul-Gerin-Lajoie Award for her book "Parental Grief and Photographic Remembrance: A Historical Account of Undying Love." Bingley: UK, Emerald Publishing.
Experience
–present
PhD Candidate and Public Scholar, Concordia University
Education
2015
Concordia University, MA Art History
2012
Concordia University, BFA Art History
1999
Dawson Institute of Photography, 3yr Professional Photography Program
Publications
2021
“Opinion: The pandemic may have changed funerals forever.” , Montreal Gazette, June 21, 2021. https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/opinion-the-pandemic-may-have-changed-funerals-forever
2020
Parental Grief and photographic Remembrance: A Historic Account of Undying Love., Bingley: UK, Emerald Publishing. (February 2020).
2020
“Keeper of the Hearth / Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph (review).", History of Photography Journal, (forthcoming issue, 2020). DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2020.1846894
2019
“Communion of Shadows (review).”, Material Religion, vol. 15, no. 3, (March 2019), 384-387. DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2019.1572367
2018
“Mrs. Helen F. Stuart and Hannah F. Green: the original spirit photographer.” , History of Photography Journal, vol. 42, no. 2 (September 2018), 146-167. doi: 10.1080/03087298.2018.1498491