Ming Tiampo

Ming Tiampo is Professor of Art History and co-director of the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis at Carleton University. A specialist in transnational modernisms, she wrote Gutai: Decentering Modernism (University of Chicago Press, 2011). She is the author of Jin-me Yoon: Life and Work (Art Canada Institute, 2023), and is part of the editorial collective for Intersecting Modernisms, a collaborative sourcebook on global modernisms. Her current SSHRC-funded project, Mobile Subjects, Contrapuntal Modernisms (1945-1989) is a deimperializing history of London and Paris as colonial and artistic capitals, focussing on artists from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It proposes a new analytical model that uses digital art history to visualize metropoles not as points of origin or as global training grounds, but as spaces of intersection and flow that allow us to reconceptualize the transnational condition of modern art. 

A curator of exhibitions and public engagement, she co-curated Gutai: Splendid Playground at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2013), and is one of the co-leads of Worlding Public Cultures, a transnational forum for research exchange, Asia Forum for the Contemporary Art of Global Asias, a peripatetic discursive platform. Her research collaborations include Asia Forum, the Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex, and Worlding Public Cultures, for which she is the co-lead. Tiampo serves on the boards of ici Berlin, the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Pansee Abou ElAtta

Pansee Atta is an Egyptian-Canadian visual artist, curator, and researcher. Using new and traditional media, her work examines themes of representation, migration, archives, and political struggle. She is an artist-researcher as part of the NWA-funded Pressing Matter research project, investigating the potentialities of ‘colonial objects’ to support societal reconciliation with the colonial past, as well as a former research fellow as part of Inherit, a BMBF-funded Käte Hamburger Kolleg based at the Humboldt University of Berlin examining historical, contemporary and future transformations in heritage. Her research and art practice center community-based responses to colonial projects of collection, display, study.

Maribel Hidalgo-Urbaneja

Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja is the Post-doctoral Research Fellow for the research project Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation at UAL. She is leading an international team of researchers collecting data about museums and university courses worldwide for the project database and website. Her research interests span digital storytelling and narratology in museums and art history and critical digital humanities approaches that seek to challenge and reimagine dominant and biased practices in Art History and Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector.

Janneke Van Hoeve

Janneke Van Hoeve is studying for her PhD in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University. Her research involves a comparative study of the global “art bank” model that draws on data methodologies, as well as topics in migration and diaspora and critical plant studies. She has worked on data-related tasks for the Mobile Subjects, Contrapuntal Modernisms project since 2022.
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2886-9282 https://www.linkedin.com/in/janneke-vanhoeve/

Emily Putnam

Emily Putnam is an art historian, curator, and researcher of twentieth century and contemporary art in Canada. Her research focuses on difficult and erased histories, their legacies, and resistance/activist practices within the context of artmaking, public art, and archives: a commitment that she likes to refer to as “staying with the Trouble of Canada.” Emily is a PhD candidate in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University. She has been a research assistant on Worlding Public Cultures, and is currently the Research Manager for Mobile Subjects, Contrapuntal Modernisms. Emily is also the Managing Director of the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis. In her day job, she is a specialist of Copyright research and permissions.

Emmanuelle Desrochers

Emmanuelle A. Desrochers est étudiante à la maîtrise (master’s) en histoire de l’art à Carleton University à Ottawa, Canada. Originaire de Montréal, elle détient un BA multidisciplinaire en développement international, études autochtones et histoire de l’art de McGill University et un BFA en histoire de l’art de Concordia University. Ses recherchent portent sur des artistes modernes et contemporains incorporant de la cartographie dans leurs œuvres et créant des cartes alternatives pour remettre en question les cartes « officielles » et les récits hégémoniques. Elle est adjointe à la conservation, Rayonnement national au Musée des beaux-arts du Canada à Ottawa.
Emmanuelle A. Desrochers is a master’s degree student in Art History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Born and raised in Montreal, she holds a BA from McGill University where she majored in International Development studies, and double-minored in Indigenous studies and Art History, as well as a BFA in Art History from Concordia University. Her research considers modern and contemporary artists incorporating cartography and creating counter-maps in their works to challenge so-called “official” maps and hegemonic narratives. She is a Curatorial Assistant in National Engagement at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

Joshua Dixon

I am a second-year student in the History and Theory of Architecture program at Carleton University. After living in Marseille for over a decade, moved to Canada, and have become fluent in English and French. My upbringing enables me to navigate Canadian and French cultures, providing a unique perspective that informs my role in the Mobile Subjects, Contrapuntal Modernisms project. My journey as a Research Assistant started when I presented a thought-provoking critique on how race is described across different cultural and national contexts. Currently, I’m reviewing French-language literature on race from the 1930s–1980s, with a focus on France and its former colonies. I also contribute to a relational database and conduct multilingual research. I now have a chance to explore Carleton’s rich collection of Francophone comics as part of this broader project, as a History and Theory of Architecture student.

Fara

Fara is a Ph.D. candidate at Carleton University’s Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture (ICSLAC). Her research focuses on national participation in the Venice Biennale, with particular attention to the cultural politics of display and artistic diplomacy. As a researcher with MSCM, she has been working primarily on Iranian artists navigating the colonial centers of London and Paris. More specifically, her work traces transnational networks of mobility, influence, and artistic agency, focusing on key Parisian figures and locations that shaped artistic exchange and played a pivotal role in connecting international artists to broader modernist currents.

Nazanin Ranazadeh

I am a PhD student in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University. I have a background in art research, where I studied Middle Eastern immigrants' artworks and their use of nostalgic elements through an iconographic lens. In my PhD, I am focusing on diasporic Iranian women and their art in response to the “Women, Life, Freedom” revolution. My research interests include Feminism, Middle Eastern Artists, Migration and Diaspora Studies, Revolution, Activism, and Freedom. As part of the "Mobile Subjects: Contrapuntal Modernisms" project, I am contributing to the study of Middle Eastern artists and their global encounters and mobility between the years 1945–1989.

Xiaofan Wu

Xiaofan Wu is a PhD student in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Art History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is interested in global contemporary art and contemporary Chinese art from the late 1980s to the present, particularly in video, performance, new media, and exhibition histories. Her doctoral dissertation examines contemporary artists in the Sinophone sphere, whose works engage with the non-human natural world and how their practices articulate shifting human-nonhuman relationships in the Anthropocene and ongoing crises. Her research for Mobile Subjects, Contrapuntal Modernisms focuses on Chinese artists studying in London. Currently, she works on Hong Kong artists and their effort in establishing an art education system.

Angel Xing

Angel is currently pursuing a Juris Doctor at Osgoode Hall Law School. She graduated from Carleton University in 2024 with a bachelor's degree in journalism and humanities. She has written for publications including the Globe and Mail, New Canadian Media, the UNACTO Journal and the ArtsHelp Editorial. Angel specializes in multimedia work and has researched and produced radio pieces for CBC Montreal's Let's Go! and CKCU's Midweek. Since March 2024, Angel has been working on the Mobile Subjects project, researching Chinese artists who studied in France during the 20th century. She explores transnational dialogues and how artists enmesh art techniques for personal, political and social purposes during transformative periods of nation-building. Angel is particularly interested in a "worlded" art history that decenters traditional panoptic narratives about artistic production.