Children’s Museology Workshop Series
Coming Soon!
To build community, deepen our knowledge, and support one another, TTTM’s Children’s Museology cluster runs a monthly Children’s Museology workshop series, with some sessions open to the public. Stay tuned and reach out to monica.patterson@carleton.ca if you’d like to participate or have ideas you’d like to explore with us!
team members
Monica Eileen Patterson
Monica Eileen Patterson, PhD is Assistant Director of Curatorial Studies, Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University. Her publications include being co-editor and contributing author of two books: Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places (2011) and Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline (2011). As a scholar, curator, and activist, Patterson is particularly interested in the ways in which children, childhood, and racism are represented and engaged in contemporary public spheres. Her current research project, “A New, Critical Children’s Museology,” identifies and develops approaches to producing exhibition content not just for or about children, but by and with children across the globe.
Role: Co-Investigator + Coordinating Committee
Cluster: Children’s Museology
Rebecca Friend
Rebecca Friend is currently pursuing a PhD in Public History at Carleton University. She holds a MA in Public History, a Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies from Ottawa’s Carleton University, and a Bachelor in History (Honours program) from Concordia University in Montréal. Her Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council-funded research studies representations of children and childhood in Canadian commemorations, and captures contemporary children’s own interpretations of the messages communicated. Rebecca has worked as a research assistant with the Reimagining the Children’s Museum Team at the Canadian Museum of History, and most recently as a Young Canada Works in Heritage Organizations Program Officer with the Canadian Museums Association.
Role: Research Assistant
Cluster: Children’s Museology
Naomi Hamer
Naomi Hamer (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at X University. Her research and publications examine the cross-media adaptation of children's literature across picture books, apps, and children’s museums. She is the co-editor of More Words About Pictures: Current Research on Picture Books and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People (eds. Hamer, Nodelman & Reimer) and The Routledge Companion of Fairy-tale Cultures and Media (eds. Greenhill, Rudy, Hamer & Bosc). Her recent project with Dr. Ann Marie Murnaghan (York U.), “Curating the Story Museum: Transmedia practices, participatory exhibits, and youth citizenship”, has been awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant.
Role: Collaborator
Cluster: Children’s Museology
Angus Leendertz
Angus Leendertz was born in South Africa to a family with Khoisan-Dutch-South East Asian roots and left in 1974 to complete studies in Interior Architecture in Amsterdam after a course in Graphic Design at the University of Cape Town. In 1980 he moved to Sydney to work in his field and in 1997 responded to a call by Nelson Mandela to return to Cape Town. Angus is a PhD candidate at Canberra University and is the Curator of the Camissa Museum in Cape Town, dividing his time between South Africa and Australia.
Role: Collaborator
Cluster: Children’s Museology
Marcus Solomon
Marcus Solomon is founder of the Children's Movement and the Children's Resource Centre. His work with children emerged out of political activism against Apartheid in the late 1970's and early 1980's in the working class residential area of Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town, South Africa. Through this experience Marcus was captured by the idea that children have agency and potential as active participants in the broader community, to help build and sustain a qualitatively better world.
Role: Collaborator
Cluster: Children’s Museology