Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere is a settler-Canadian and granddaughter of Italian immigrants, residing in Toronto/Tkaronto the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat.
With over a fifteen years of experience in the post-secondary sector, Elizabeth is a dynamic communicator and public speaker; recipient of several major funding initiatives as principal and co-investigator; an experienced editor and administrator; and a successful project manager of multi stakeholder inititaives with SSHRC and other major funding.
Elizabeth is widely published with writing on tourist views, instructed looking, survey photography, railroad bridges, photographic directories, royals on timberslides, and giant (really giant!) mounds of ice published in journals such as Environmental History, Journal of Canadian Studies, Histoire Sociale/Social History, Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, RACAR: Revue d’art Canadienne/Canadian Art Review, and Journal of Canadian Art History.
SELECTED WRITINGS
Hannah Maynard: Life & Work. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, forthcoming
“Claimed, Imagined, Idealized: Survey Photographs from the North American Boundary Commissions of 1858 and 1872.” In Survey Style: Landscape Photography Across the Globe edited by Erin Hyde Nolan (Maine College of Art) and Sophie Junge (University of Zurich), in Photograph, Place, Environment series, Routledge, UK edited by Liz Wells. Forthcoming March 2022.
“Sliding down the Timber Chute – Photographing colonial relationships during the 1901 British royal tour of Canada.” Environmental History, Volume 26, Issue 2 (April 2021): 321-337
“Now and Then: Situating Contemporary Photography of the Canadian West into a Shared Photographic History.” Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies. Volume 7, Number 1 (November 2016): http://imaginations.csj.ualberta.ca/?p=8748
“Onward! Canadian Expansionist Outlooks and the Photographs that Serve Them.” RACAR. Volume 41, Number 1 (2016): 76-84
“Canada by Photograph: Instructed looking and tourism of the nineteenth-century Canadian landscape.” Histoire sociale/Social history. Special issue edited by Jack Little, Volume 49, Issue 99 (June 2016): 309-327
“Three Tales of One City.” Journal of Canadian Studies devoted to “Meeting Places/Lieux de rencontre.” Special issue edited by Kerry Cannon, Volume 49, Issue 2 (Spring 2016): 315-320
“Benjamin Baltzly: A Photographer’s Expedition Journal.” Journal of Canadian Art History. Volume 35, Issue 1 (Fall 2014): 16-129
EDUCATION
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen’s University, Department of Art History & Art Conservation, Kingston, ON
Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
Ph.D., Department of Art History, Concordia University, Montreal QC
M.A., Department of Art History, York University, Toronto ON
B.A. with Distinction in Art History, Minor Religious Studies, Mount Allison University, Sackville NB
TEACHING
Ontario College of Art and Design University, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Toronto, ON.
VISA 3016: Theory in Contemporary Photography
VISA 2003: History of Photography
VISA 3022: Historiographies of Art
University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Art, Lethbridge, AB.
ART 3261/2: ArtNOW
Queen’s University, Department of Art History & Art Conservation, Kingston, ON.
ARTH 311: Gender and Modernism
ARTH 460: Curatorial Studies
University of Calgary, Department of Art, Faculty of Arts, Calgary, AB.
ARHI 305: History of Canadian Art
Brock University, Department of Visual Arts, St. Catharines, ON.
VISA 3P05: 20th Century European Avant-Garde
University of Toronto Mississauga, Department of Visual Studies, Toronto, ON.
FAH 292: History of Canadian Art
Concordia University, Department of Art History, Montreal, QC.
ARTH 368: Contemporary Canadian Art
ARTH 359: Theory in Contemporary Photography
ARTH 380: Institutions and the History of Canadian Photography
ARTH 200: Perspectives in Art History
ARTH 375: Issues in the Montreal Art Milieu – Photographic History
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
University Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Annual Conference
“Of Material Benefit: Thinking Beyond the Textbook and Outside of the Course Pack in the Canadian Survey.” Online, 15-17 October, 2020
“Sliding down the Timber Chute – Photographing colonial relationships during the 1901 British royal tour of Canada.” Quebec City, QC, 24-27 October, 2019
“Collaboration as Pedagogy in Teaching Canadian Art Histories.” University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON, 25-28 October, 2018
“Onward! Canadian expansionist outlooks and the photographs that serve them.” NSCAD University, Halifax NS, 4-5 November 2016
Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference
“From Rebellion to Reconciliation: Oliver Buell’s photographs of the 1885 Louis Riel trial.” Rochester NY, 19-22 March, 2020
“Vistas Interrupted and Excluded: Charles Horetzky's 1872 Photographs of the Bridge over the Wotsonqua River.” Philadelphia PA, 15-17 March, 2018
“Photographs of the Wolfe and Montcalm Monuments: Social Cohesion, Contested Space, Divided Histories.” Charleston SC, 2-4 February, 2017
“Onward! Canadian expansionist outlooks and the photographs that serve them.” Lincoln NE, 13-16 April 2016
American Society for Environmental History Conference
“Prompting Awareness / Inspiring Hope: Strategies for Teaching Climate Change.” Eugene, OR 23-27 March, 2022
“When push comes to shove: ice, restoration, and tourism in the port of Montreal.” Ottawa ON, 25-29 March, 2020
“Sliding down the Timber Chute: The 1901 Royal Tour of Canada.” Chicago IL, 29 March - 7 April, 2017
“Onward! Canadian expansionist outlooks and the photographs that serve them.” Seattle WA, 30 March - 4 April, 2016
Association for Art History (AAH) Annual Conference
“A Great Future Destined or Beckoned? Legacies of Nationhood and Settlement in Canadian Survey Photographs.” Brighton, UK, 4-6 April 2019
Knowledge & Networks II: Connecting the Circles of Canadian Art History
“Collaboration as Methodology in Teaching Canadian Art Histories.” University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, 10-12 May, 2018
NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment
“Viewing Canada: The cultural implications of topographic photographs in Confederation-era Canada.” The Dominion of Nature: Environmental Histories of the Confederation Era, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown PEI, 31 July and 1 August 2014
Meeting Places: An international Canadian Studies Conference
“Imaged Communities: Putting Canadian Photographic History in its Place.” Saint Mary’s University, Halifax NS, Mount Allison University, Sackville NB, 18-21 September 2013
The Landscape Research Group Conference
“Wrought Iron and Railroad Bridges: Alexander Henderson’s photographs along the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa & Occidental Railway.” Rust Regeneration and Romance: Iron and Steel Landscapes and Cultures, Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Ironbridge UK, 10-14 July 2013
“Flood Watch: The Construction and Evaluation of Photographic Meaning in Alexander Henderson’s Snow and Flood After the Great Storms of 1869.” Ethics and Aesthetics of Architecture and the Environment Conference, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne UK, 11-13 July 2012
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Invited Lectures
“Researching the Archives.” Ryerson University, Toronto ON, 2 October 2017
“Nationalism and the Canadian Landscape.” Queen’s University, Kingston ON, 22 February 2016
“Surveying the Landscape: Cultural Imprints in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Topographical Photography.” Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal QC, 10 September 2015
“Imaged Communities: Putting Canadian Photographic History in its Place.” Speaking on Photography Lecture Series, Concordia University, Montreal QC, 21 March 2013
“Alexander Henderson, the 19th century photographer and his many hats.” National Gallery of Canada, Photography Collectors Group, Ottawa ON, 23 January, 2013
Public Lectures and Talks
“Wrought Iron Railroad Bridges: Alexander Henderson’s Photographs along the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa & Occidental Railway.” National Gallery of Canada Fellow Lectures, Ottawa ON, 19 June, 2012
“How Sublime! Exclamations and implications in the production of nineteenth-century Canadian topographical landscape photographs.” Lunch Time Colloquium Series, Laurentian University Department of History, Sudbury ON, 16 February 2011
Service
Board member, University Art Association of Canada, 2019-present
Strategic Planning Finance Committee, University Art Association of Canada, 2019-present
Organizing Committee, Open Art Histories, 2019-present
Editorial Advisory Board, Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis, 2020-present
Editorial Reader, Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine, 2020
Editorial Reader, Journal of Canadian Art History, 2020
LANGUAGES
English, French, Italian