Monica Patterson
Professor
Anthropology
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Monica Eileen Patterson is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University. She earned her doctorate in Anthropology and History and a certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Prior to joining the faculty at Carleton, she was a Banting Fellow at the Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence at Concordia University. Patterson is co-editor of several articles and two books: Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge and Questioning Discipline (University of Michigan Press, 2011). Currently, she is working on a manuscript that examines the multiple and contested understandings of childhood in late-apartheid South Africa.
Research Interest
Children/childhoods, memory, violence, race/racism/racialisation, visual culture, heritage, museums, curating, sub-Saharan Africa
Publications
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“By and For Children: History and Healing in a Hospital Museum in KwaZulu Natal,†Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions, Erica Lehrer and Shelley Ruth Butler, eds. (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2016).
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Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge and Questioning Discipline, Edward Murphy, David William Cohen, Chandra D. Bhimull, Fernando Coronil, Monica Eileen Patterson, and Julie Skurski, eds. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011).
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Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places, Erica Lehrer, Cynthia Milton, and Monica Eileen Patterson, eds. (Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
