Jennifer Matsunaga

M.A.  (Carleton University)
B.A. (High Hons.)  (Carleton University)
PhD Candidate

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• The government of “Historical Injustice”, or, the practice of “historical injustice” in the Canadian context;
• Processes and means of truth-telling as a feature of historical injustice;
• Intersections between First Nations’ “Ownership, Control, Access, Possession” (OCAP) principles and data collected for the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.
• Time: Engaging with methodologies that challenge discreet past/present binaries that are often used to feed the rhetoric and imaginary of “the future”;
• Anti-racist / Decolonizing intersections between Japanese Canadian and First Nations communities.

EDUCATION

• PhD Candidate - (2011-Present), Sociology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada – Working thesis title: The Truth Is, the Past Never Ended: Tracing how the governmentalization of ‘historical injustice’ obscures injustices of the present
• MA Sociology - (2011), Carleton University, Ontario, Canada – Thesis title: Publics in the Making: A Genealogical Inquiry into the Discursive Publics of Japanese Canadian Redress.
• BA (High Honours) Sociology - (2009), Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

ACADEMIC HONOURS, AWARDS,SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS

• 2012-2013 R. Samuel McLaughlin Fellowship. Awarded to first class graduate students in all fields.
• 2012-2013 Queen’s Graduate Award. Awarded by the Department to eligible students in all fields.
• 2011-2012 Queen’s Graduate Award. Awarded by the Department to eligible students in all fields.
• May 2011. Canadian Sociological Association. Travel Grant.
• January 2011. Carleton University Award.
• 2010-2011 Carleton University Graduate Award.
• 2009-2010 Carleton University Graduate Award.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistantships

• SOCY 233 (Race and Ethnic Relations) – September 2011 to April 2012 (Professor Cynthia Levine-Rasky, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University)
• SOCY 321 (Research Methodology) –September 2011 to December 2011 (Professor Cynthia Levine-Rasky, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University)
• SOCI 1002 (Introduction to Sociology II) – January 2011 to April 2011 (Instructor: Christian Caron, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University)
• SOCI 1001 (Introduction to Sociology) – September 2010 to December 2010 (Instructor: Christian Caron, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University)
• SOCI 1002 (Introduction to Sociology II) – January 2010 to April 2010 (Instructor: Michael Graydon, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University)
• ANTH 1001 (Introduction to Anthropology) – September 2009 to December 2009 (Professor Pauline Aucoin, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• April 2012. “Dangerous Words and Coyote Stories: Exploring Settler Truth-telling as Parrhesia”. Presented at Department of Sociology Annual Student Symposium, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.
• May 2011. “W(Right)ing Injustice: Publics, publicity and publicizing redress”. Presented at the 2011 Canadian Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Fredericton, NB.
• April 2011. “Redress as Social Justice”. Paper presented at University of Ottawa “Critical Perspectives Criminology and Social Justice Conference”, Ottawa, ON.
• March 2011. “W/Right/ing Injustice: Publics, Publicity and Publicizing Redress”. Presented at joint Trent University and Carleton University conference titled “Behind policy, beyond rhetoric: Reconstructing the Canadian Public from the Margins”, Ottawa, ON.
• February 2010. “Seeking Justice, Reconciling the Past: The government of Redress in Canada”. Presented at the annual Works In Progress Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON.

LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• 2011 to present: Member of the National Association of Japanese Canadians – Human Rights Committee;
• 2011 to present: Membership Chair and Board Member of the Ottawa Japanese Community Association, Ottawa, ON;
• 2011 to present: Member, Equity Committee, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON;
• 2011 to present: Graduate Student Representative to the Sociology Departmental Committee, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON;
• January 2012 to April 2012: Member, Graduate Student’s Symposium Planning Committee, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON;
• 2010-2011: Publicity and Organizing, Colloquium Series, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Member: Canadian Sociological Association
• Member: American Sociological Association
• Member: Association for Canadian Studies
• Member: Canadian Race Relations Foundation