PhD candidate Linda Mussell awarded SSHRC Connection grant

PhD candidate Linda Mussell awarded SSHRC Connection grant 

Linda Mussell

Principal Investigator Lisa Guenther (Queen’s National Scholar in Political Philosophy and Critical Prison Studies), Co-Applicant Brenda Longfellow (Associate Professor; School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design; York University) and Co-Applicant Linda Mussell (PhD Candidate, Political Studies, Queen’s University) have successfully applied for a SSHRC Connection grant for their project “P4W 20 Years Later: Memory, Art, and Action”.

“P4W 20 Years Later: Memory, Art, and Action" will be hosted by Queen's University (Philosophy, Cultural Studies, and Political Studies) and York University (School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design) and is tentatively scheduled for October 2020.

The project will bring together people who were incarcerated at the Prison for Women (P4W) in Kingston, Ontario, and in the current system of regionally located federal prisons for women across Canada. The symposium will centre the perspectives of people with a lived experience of incarceration and provide a forum to share memories, experiences, and visions for the future. A handful of feminist scholars, filmmakers, and artists will engage with former prisoners and reflect together on questions raised by the twentieth anniversary of the closure of P4W.

“Receiving a SSHRC Connection Grant for this work is such amazing news to hear in otherwise challenging times,” says Linda Mussell. “We are excited to take this project forward and to facilitate these important conversations around imprisonment locally and with participants from across Canada.”