Curriculum Vitae
This page provides an overview of Anna Shah Hoque’s education, awards, teaching experience, conference papers and presentations, and university service.
Education
Ph.D., Institute of Feminist & Gender Studies, University of Ottawa Dissertation: Place[ing] Relations, Embodying Intentions: A Decolonial Feminist Ethnography of Archival Praxis Among Indigenous and South Asian Artists and Curators in so-called Canada
Master of Arts: Communication (Senate Medal Recipient), Carleton University Thesis: Indigenous Storytelling: Contesting, Interrupting, and Intervening in the Nation-Building Project Through Historica Canada’s Heritage Minutes
Bachelor of Arts Combined Honours in Canadian Studies & Communication Studies, Minor in Sexuality Studies, Carleton University
Awards
City of Ottawa’s Equity and Inclusion in the Arts – Grow Grant
Canada Council for the Arts, Digital Now (with CUAG)
Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization (with Cara Tierney)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship (4 years)
Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement (Master’s Thesis)
Charlotte Whitton Fellowships in Canadian Urban Life
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (3 years)
Ottawa Women’s Canadian Club Scholarship (2 years)
Walter A. Ainsworth Bursary
John Ruch Memorial Bursary
Michael Oliver Scholarship
Carleton Entrance Bursary
Teaching Experience
- 2025 GSFS307 Indigenous Feminisms, McGill University
- 2025 ANTH|SOCI405 Cultural Imperialism, Concordia University
- 2025 FGST4001 Contemporary Issues in Feminism and Gender Studies, Mount Allison University
- 2025 FGST2301 Special Topic-Feminism Beyond Borders, Mount Allison University
- 2024 FGST|CDNS4301 Gender and Settler Colonialism, Mount Allison University
- 2024 GSFS307 Indigenous Feminisms, McGill University
- 2024 ANTH|SOCI483 Nationalism and Racism, Concordia University
- 2023 ANTH|SOCI353/354 Questioning Community, Concordia University
- 2023 GSFS307 Indigenous Feminisms, McGill University
- 2023 INDG1011 Introduction to Indigenous-Settler Encounters, Carleton University
- 2022 INDG2020 Decolonizing Gender, Sex, and Sexuality, Carleton University
- 2022 SOCI 230-1/ANTH230-1 Race and Ethnic Relations, Concordia University
- 2022 INDG1011 Introduction to Indigenous-Settler Encounters, Carleton University
- 2021 CDNS1001 Studying Canada, Carleton University
- 2021 INDG1011 Introduction to Indigenous-Settler Encounters, Carleton University
- 2021 SOCI|ANTH381 Ethnic Communities in Canada, Concordia University
Shah Hoque, A. (2025, April). Being in Relations: Archival Desire and Decolonial Narratives in the Taike-Sye’yə Mural. Unsettling Relationalities: Blackness(es), Indigeneity, and “South Asian” Diasporic Critique [Panel Presentation with Vanita Reddy, Jordache Ellapen, and Beenash Jafri]. Association for Asian American Studies, Boston, MA.
Shah Hoque, A. (2024, May). Shomoy-Granthi and Reimagining Archival Spaces: Decolonial Feminist Archival Praxis in Quillwork. Mutations of the Archive in Times of Rupture (workshop). Balsillie School of International Affairs University of Waterloo, ON.
Shah Hoque, A. (2021, April). Roundtable Discussion on Quynh Nhu Le’s Unsettled Solidarities with Jodi Kim, Jodi Byrd, and Lee Ann Wang. Association for Asian American Studies Conference (AAAS), Digitally Presented due to COVID-19.
Shah Hoque, A. (2018, June). Where Are We Really From?: Decolonizing Indigenous and Refugee Relations. Critical Ethnic Studies Association, University of British Columbia, B.C.
Shah Hoque, A. (2018, April). Indigenous Contestations, Interruptions, and Interventions through Historica Canada’s Heritage Minutes. Arrows of Time: Narrating the Past and Present – 39th edition of the American Indian Workshop (AIW), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Shah Hoque, A. (2018, January). Indigenous History and the Heritage Minutes. 60 Second Storytelling: Reflections on Canada’s Heritage Minutes, University of Ottawa, ON.
Shah Hoque, A. (2017, March). There’s an App for That?: Imagining a Canada Future Free from Sexual and Racial Violence through Speculative Design. Visions for Canada 2042: Imagining a Canada of the Future, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON.
Shah Hoque, A. (2017, March). Critical Indigenous Media Interventions: Community, Identity, and Storytelling. RECKONING WITH CANADA AT 150: Indigenous Sovereignties and Critical Settler Perspectives – Centre for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language and Education (CIRCLE) 2017, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON.
2023 Guest Lecturer, CMN5190, Mapping the Local: Oral Storytelling and IBPOC Archives in Odawa|Ottawa, March 17
2020 Guest Lecturer, COMS3104, Decolonization and Storytelling, February 25
2019 Guest Lecturer, COMS3109, Decolonizing Settler Institutions, November 1
2019 Guest Lecturer, COMS3104, Decolonization, Storytelling, and the Politics of the Visual, October 8
2019 Guest Lecturer, FEM1100, Feminist Technoscience: Causal relationships, Politics of Design, & the Programming Infrastructure of Bumble, June 5
2019 Guest Lecturer, CMN4102, Decolonization, Visual Sovereignty, Interventions, & Exorcisms, June 3
2019 Guest Lecturer, ECMP248, Feminist Technoscience: Technology & Society, Bias, & Talking Desi in Diaspora, May 9
2019 Guest Lecturer, ECMP140, Feminist Technoscience: Technology & Society, Bias, & the Potential for Community & Resistance, May 9
2019 Guest Lecturer, COMS4605, Storytelling, Speculative Design, & Indigenous Futurism, April 9
2019 Guest Lecturer, FEM3105, Feminist Technoscience: Causal relationships, Politics of Design, & the Programming Infrastructure of Bumble, March 12
2018 Guest Lecturer, FEM3105, Indigenous resurgence & Decolonizing visual media, University of Ottawa, February 7
Conference Papers and Presentations
University Service
2024 External Examiner for Aylin Abbasi’s Master of Fine Arts Thesis Defence, University of Ottawa
2022 Committee member, Indigenous Studies Programming Committee and Curriculum Committee, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, Carleton University
2021-2022 Graduate Facilitator of Monthly BIPOC Hangouts, Institute of Feminist & Gender Studies, University of Ottawa
2018-2021 Teaching Assistant (Courses at the Institute of Feminist & Gender Studies), University of Ottawa
2018 Planning Committee & Curriculum Sub-Committee member, Carleton University Institute on the Ethics of Research with Indigenous Peoples
2017-2019 Research Assistant, Promoting Resilience Among Trans Youth in Canada: A Participatory Project on Trans Representation
2017 Senate Academic Program Committee, Carleton University
2017 Chair, Human Rights Committee, CUPE 4600, Carleton University
2014-2018 Teaching Assistant (Courses for School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies + Communication Studies), Carleton University
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