Jessica’s research focuses on archival feminist protest collections and the types of labour that trigger their creation and use. She is concerned with articulating concepts of archival representation, aspiration and anticipation, as well as positioning labour within the framework of archival provenance.
Social movement archives, community archives, feminist archiving, protest archives, archival aspiration and anticipation, archival labour, provenance
2019 – Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Beta Phi Mu International Honor Society
2019 – Travel Grant, Society for Social Studies of Science
2019 – Mary Lily Research Grant, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Duke University
2018 – Florence Partridge Research Fellowship
2018 – Faculty of Information PhD Travel Award
2017-2020 – Faculty of Information Excellence Award
2017-2020 – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship
2016 – SGS PhD Travel Award, University of Toronto
2015-2020 – University of Toronto Fellowship
2015 – Ryan Taylor Award in Genealogical Studies
Research Assistant to Heather MacNeil
Research Project Title: The Past, Present, and Possible Future of the Museum Object Catalogue
Co-Convener of McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology Working Group ‘Illegible Media
Media’ 2018-2019
Archivist at ‘Alternative Toronto’ a Toronto-based digital community archive
