ALUMNOTES Nance Ackerman’s, MJ’13, latest film, a feature documentary called Conviction, premiered to a full house at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival in Toronto in April 2019. Women are the fastest growing prison population in Canada and around the world. In Conviction, three filmmakers collaborate with women on the inside to explore the stories behind that statistic and ask what they would have needed in their lives to avoid incarceration. Martha Troian, MJ’13, (along with John Perry, FYP’96, BJ’04) is among five Canadian journalists who have received Massey College 2019-2020 William Southam Journalism Fellowships. Martha, the McLaughlin Centre Fellow, is an independent award-winning investigative journalist who has contributed to CBC, Vice Canada, Maclean’s, Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, The Walrus and APTN News.
Veronica Curran, BA(Hons)’12, and Thomas McCallum, BA(Hons)’14, were married in the King’s Chapel on August 17, 2019. Included in the wedding party were King’s alumni, Katie Merwin, BA(Hons)’11, Rosalind Curran, BA(Hons)’16, Colin Nicolle, BJ(Hons)’10, BA’13, and Aaron Shenkman, BA(Hons)’14.
After graduation, Adam Foster, BA’12, completed a MA at Acadia University in Social and Political Thought in 2015. Adam started his PhD in the fall of 2015 at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa in political science, specializing in political theory, and law and society, and is also completing an additional graduate certificate in international cultural studies. Adam also wrote a chapter in the book Childhood, Science Fiction, and Pedagogy published by Springer titled “Heretic Gnosis: Education, Children, and the Problem of Knowing Other-wise.”
Corbett Hancey, BJ’11, was awarded one of two 2019 Michener-Deacon Fellowships, an award that honours excellence in public-service journalism. Corbett will produce a series of investigative articles for print and broadcast on the recent controversial decision, made by the Canadian government, to allow Canadian defence contractors to sell weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian-backed rebels in the country’s restive east.
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Casey Lynch, BA(Hons)’12, completed a PhD in geography, with a minor in Gender and Women’s Studies, from the University of Arizona in May 2019. Casey has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship at the University of Nevada, Reno. Jordan Parker, BJ(Hons)’12, MJ’14, is currently a successful public relations (PR) professional and freelance journalist and is starting his own PR firm, Parker PR, to work with entertainment industry professionals.
Sarah Lawrynuik, BJ’14, has been awarded the Gordon Sinclair Roving Reporter Bursary. Sarah is a Calgary-based multimedia journalist who has worked across multiple platforms, filing stories to the CBC, The Narwhal, The Sprawl and New Scientist. As the Gordon Sinclair Roving Reporter, she will examine the current political shifts in Eastern and Central Europe and how those shifts are resonating in Canada. When Brenna Sobanski, BA(Hons)’14, and Anika Roberts-Stahlbrand, BA(Hons)’15, were matched as roommates in their first year at King’s in 2010, little did they know where it would lead. They remained roommates for four years as they both pursued History of Science and Technology (HOST) degrees and are still close friends today. Both also received Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) funding to pursue their master’s degrees. Eliza West, BA(Hons)’14, earned her MA from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware in May 2019. Her thesis, titled “ ‘Milled Fit for Trowsers’: Toward a Fuller[’s] Understanding of Woolen Finishing in the Mid-Atlantic from 1790 to 1830,” brought together her love of the early modern, history of technology and textiles, to explore a previously understudied craft, and was a runner-up for the program’s thesis prize. As always, she would like to thank King’s for fostering her creativity and making her the kind of writer who actually enjoyed the entire process of getting her master’s thesis on paper.
