A L U M N OT E S Thorfinn Stainforth (BAH ’04) received his MA in European studies at UBC following King’s and is now working in Brussels at the European Commission’s Directorate for Climate Action.
shine Coast. They met when they were both studying for the one-year BJ at King’s. Kate and Erik now live in Ottawa where they both work for Canada’s Foreign Service.
Jon Paul (JP) Brooker (BAH ’05) is a natural resources attorney and policy analyst who specializes in fisheries law. He works for the Ocean Conservancy in St Petersburg, Florida, and Washington, DC. HOST grad Sebastian Gil-Riano (BAH ’05) successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Toronto in early December and in July 2014 he will take up a two-year postdoc at the University of Sydney as part of Warwick Anderson’s “Race and Ethnicity in the Global South” research project. Greg Hughes (BJ ’05) will complete a masters in information systems and design at the University of Toronto in June 2014. Jessica Davey-Quantick (BJH ’07) has returned to Canada after five years as editor of several publications in Qatar, most recently for Time Out Doha. She is now studying for her masters in cultural studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Arwen Kidd’s (BJH ’07) independent documentary short film, Smell No Taste, has recently been named a finalist in this year’s PovertyCure International Short Film Festival and is also up for a $3000 Audience Choice Award.
Jamie Lee (BJH ’08) and Darcy MacLean (FYP ’04) were married on 30 June 2013. Currently living in Toronto, Jamie is working freelance in public relations and Darcy works as a healthcare technology consultant.
After being nominated for a Canadian Society of Cinematographers award (CSC), Liam Hyland (BJH ’08) won the CSC’s Roy Tash Award for Spot News for his coverage of Hurricane Isaac. Liam also received an award from the Los Angeles Press Club at the Southern California Journalism Awards for a feature on William Shatner. This year he also covered the birth of the royal baby and the typhoon in the Philippines. He continues to be happily married and now has a second dog named Rocky. Liam can be contacted at liamhyland2@gmail.com. Gwenith Cross (BAH ’07) is in the final stages of her PhD at Wilfrid Laurier University. “Although I am in the history department and not HOST/HPS,” she writes, “I am still studying the history of medicine and my dissertation looks at midwifery and obstetrics in Canada and England in the first half of the twentieth century.” In the summer of 2012 she spent two months doing research at the Wellcome Trust and the National Archives in London, UK, and this past summer she returned to do more research at the Wellcome and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Wanda Taylor (BJ ’08) has been accepted into a PhD program in Atlanta, Georgia, starting in January 2014. She will also be writing a book for Nimbus Publishing on the Home for Coloured Children.
Kate Churchill-Smith (BAH ’06, BJ ’08) and Erik Mjanes (BJ ’08) were married on 3 August 2013 at Roberts Creek on BC’s Sun
big plan these days,” Alison says, “is to corner the “market” (ha!) of writing for architects. There are, of course, some highly capable architects who write about their own work, but largely it is an overlooked mode of expression in the field that I see potential to work on.” Alison has written the article on Alex Colville in this issue of Tidings.
Alison Hugill (BAH ’09) completed a masters in art theory at Goldsmith College, University of London in 2011. Since then, she has been working as a freelance writer, editor and curator. She has recently been working for Berlin Arts as its editor and has reviewed a number of shows in Berlin. “My
Jessica Lee (BAH ’08) is completing her PhD at York University and will be spending next autumn as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin. Christina Macdonald (BAH ’09) has moved on from the Advancement Office at King’s to Saint Mary’s University. “I’m working in Enrolment Services at SMU so I’m interacting directly with students, which I really love,” she writes.
William Stewart’s (BA ’09) film Touch was screened at Cannes to a full house this summer. It also picked up a buyer in London and William was able to secure funding for two short films. The first will be shot in Alberta with a script written by Robert Richard (BAH ’06). In February 2014, he will head to India to direct a horror film called Black August and produce three other short films. “In June I formed a production company with Indian director Prateek Payodhi called Payodhi-Stewart Productions. We plan to make films that challenge and push the boundaries of Indian cinema. Black August is the first film to be made under this partnership,” says William.
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