Department of History

Lisa Binkley

Assistant Professor; Coordinator, Art History Certificate

Lisa Binkley Wp Pic Aug 2019
Department of History

Email: LBinkley@dal.ca
Phone: 902 494 3361
Fax: 902 494 3349
Mailing Address: 
Department of History. Dalhousie University, 6135 University Ave., PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Indigenous and settler women's histories
  • Material culture, Visual culture
  • Textiles and Needlework; Craft histories and geographies of craft
  • Historical geography, fur trade, mapping
  • Native Feminisms
  • Museums and critical heritage studies

Education

BAH (Human Geography, Queen's)
MA (Human Georgraphy, Queen's)
PhD (Art History and Material Culture, Queen's)
Post-doctoral fellow (W.P. Bell Post-doctoral Fellowship, Mount Allison University)

Current Research

2020 Indigenous Approaches to the Western Literary and Visual Canon, New Frontiers Research Fund, SSHRC, Co-investigator

2020 Creating Vocabularies and Rituals for Climate Grief Through Multiple Knowledge Systems and Artistic Process, New Frontiers Research Fund, SSHRC, Collaborator

Book Chapters and Peer Reviewed Articles

Peer reviewed articles
Binkley, Lisa, "Marketing Indigenous Craft: A Kanien'keha:ka Silk Patchwork Quilt," Journal of Canadian Art History,Vol. 39:2/40:1, (Special Edition 2019), 64-80.

Peer reviewed book chapters
Binkley, Lisa, "(Re)Viewing a 1960s Mi'kmaw Ribbon Skirt: Reclamation, Resilience, Resistance," in Transnational Perspectives on Feminism and Art, 1960-1985, Angelique Szymanek, Jen Kennedy, and Trista Mallory, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2021).

Binkley, Lisa, "Dis(playing) Politics: Craft and the Caughnawaga Exhibition, 1883," in Craft is Political (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021).

Binkley, Lisa, "Piecing Heritage in Transition:  Star Quilts as a Symbol of Pan-Indigeneity. In Susan Surette and Elaine C. Paterson (Eds.), Craft and Heritage: Intersections in Critical Studies and Practice (London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic Press, In press, 2021).

Binkley, Lisa, "Whig's Defeat:  Stitching Settler Culture, Politics and Identity." In Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needlearts. Eds. Lisa Binkley and Johanna Amos, (London: Bloomsbury Academic, (2020), 83-96.

Binkley, Lisa, "Introduction: Stitching the Self."  In Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needlearts. Eds. Lisa Binkley and Johanna Amos, (London: Bloomsbury Academic, (2020), 1-20.

Winter 2025 Office Hours

  • TBD