Rebecca Dolgoy, PhD

Biography

As the curator of natural resources and industrial technologies, Rebecca Dolgoy (she/her) is fascinated by human-environmental relations. Her commitment to collaborative and community-based research/research creation projects stems from her background in memory and museum studies (DPhil, Oxford). Her doctoral project traced lines of cultural memory embedded in Berlin museums while exploring relationships between material culture and public memory.

Originally from Edmonton, in Treaty Six Territory and the homeland of the Métis Nation of Alberta (region 4), Rebecca has been fortunate to live, study, and work in many different places. From leaving home to study at Li Po Chun United World College in Hong Kong to working as an usher at the Paris Opera House, she has had the opportunity to observe and participate in different museological and heritage practices, while developing a world view that is empathetic and open. She came to Ottawa to conduct research in Canadian museology and commemorative cultures on a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship in 2015. After the conclusion of her fellowship she spent two years as the director of Carleton’s Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis and as a visiting fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. She came to Ingenium in September 2019.

Rebecca’s current projects include: documenting energy stories and transitions in Alberta, exploring slow memory and climate witnessing, investigating multiperspectival experiences of deindustrialization, and developing an exhibition on diasporic and transcultural memories of food, dining, and cooking. She holds adjunct professorships in the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University and the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary.