Congratulations to the 2023/2024 major graduate award recipients from FCAT

We are pleased to share the 2023/24 major external and government-funded award recipients from across FCAT. Congratulations to these six incredible graduate students from the School of Communication, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, and School for the Contemporary Arts whose research has been awarded this year. 

Dongwook Song is a School of Communication doctoral student in the School of Interactive Art & Technology and his research looks at media and cultural studies with a focus on the everyday life practices of people. (COGECO Grad School in Communication award, Graduate Travel and Research Award)

Edward Sembatya is a Contemporary Arts-dance major doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. The primary focus of his research is on the teaching, learning, and performance of African Indigenous dances in environments and locations that are distinct from their original settings.

Gabriel Juliano is a Interactive Arts & Technology major doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology. He researches epistemology––knowledge-making, or ways of knowing––in Brazilian popular culture media artworks such as compositions, music videos, documentaries, and stream videos.

Hannah Carpendale is a Interactive Arts & Technology major doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology. Her research explores how we can better support diverse communities in understanding and actively engaging with ecological and climate data, in order to foster advocacy and policy change to address biodiversity loss and climate change.

Hoornaz Keshavarzian is a Communication doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology. Her research looks at the ways in which women in Iran, either individually or collectively, resist and subvert what she calls "hegemonic modesty" - the state's imposed gendered ideology.

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is a Masters of Fine Arts student in the School of Contemporary Arts. Her research focuses include gender, the attention economy and neuroscience, and aging.

Read more about the 2023/2024 award winners from across Simon Fraser University (SFU).