Sara Matthews
Associate Professor, Communication Studies
smatthews@wlu.ca
Waterloo, Ontario
Faculty of Arts
Sara Matthews is an expert in aesthetic methods and research creation, conflict, memory and visual culture, culture and conflict and war museums and public education.
Areas of Expertise
- Media and Communication Theory
- Memory and Learning
Biography
I received my PhD in Language, Culture and Teaching from York University in 2009 and my MA in Sociology and Equity Studies from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto in 1998. My areas of study during my graduate training were critical anti-racism practices in higher education, and studies of learning from histories of racialized conflict. Collaborative work for my dissertation "A Pedagogy of Implication: Witnessing Historical Trauma as a Question of Learning" was conducted at the Centre For the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Johannesburg, South Africa.