Claudia Sicondolfo

SSHRC Funded Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Claudia Sicondolfo holds a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship for her research project “Survival Solidarities: Cross-Sectoral Collaborations in Activist Media Arts,” which thinks through generative possibilities for cross-sectoral collaborations within media arts sectors in Canada and the United States  She received her PhD in Cinema and Media Studies from York University, during which she held the Vanier CGS from 2017-2021. Her research projects address topics ranging from activism and solidarity tactics in the media arts, engagement tactics within film festivals, screen publics and cultural policy, AI and copyright as well as, AI and pedagogy, decolonizing nationalisms, and affect in the creative industries. Her writing has been published in ESSACHES, Public Journal, and Senses of Cinema, in addition to various book anthologies. She is the co-PI for the SSHRC Connections project Mobilizing the Canadian Community-Driven Audiovisual Archives Policy. She is also a Researcher with the Creative Labours, Critical Futures Centre and a Research Associate with the Platforming Leisure SSHRC Insight project. Claudia has worked intimately with educational communities across Canada and has published 10+ educational companion curriculum for documentaries. Prior to beginning her SSHRC Fellowship, Claudia with a PT Assistant Professor in Arts Management, in the Arts, Media, and Culture Department at the University of Toronto, Scarborough campus and worked with the National Film Board of Canada for almost a decade.

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

• Cultural Policy
• Media Arts industries, infrastructures, and activisms
• Affect and the Creative Industries
• Media Archives
• AI and Copyright
• Media Education and Engagement

EDUCATION

• 2024 Ph.D., Cinema and Media Studies, York University
• 2011 M.A., Cinema and Media Studies, York University
• 2006 B.A., Film Studies and English, Carleton University

SELECTED AWARDS

• Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program (2026-2028): Survival Solidarities: Cross-Sectoral Collaborations in Activist Media Arts
• Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connections Grant — Principal Investigator: Archives in Action (AiA): Canadian Audio-Visual Archive Policy PlanSSHRC Connections (2024-2025)
• Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2017-2020) 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• 2026 (In Progress, Abstract Accepted) Sicondolfo, Claudia, Daphne Idiz, and Mary Elizabeth Luka. “Creativity and copyright in the shadow of GenAI: Managing and organizing creative content in the digitalization frenzy.” Journal of Innovation: Organization & Management.
• (In Peer Review) (Co-Author) MaryElizabeth Luka, Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, and Claudia Sicondolfo. “Manifesto for Archives in Action.” In Archive/Counter-Archive: Activating Histories Across Media and Communities. Janine Marchessault, Emily Collins, and Michael Zryd, eds. Concordia University Press.
• 2026 (In Press) Sicondolfo, Claudia. “‘How do we come back home?’ The Joyful Archives of the Home Made Visible Project.” In Counter-Archives: Communities. Stacy Allison-Cassin and Antoine Demiens, eds. Concordia University Press.
• 2023 Sicondolfo, Claudia. “Sights of Homecoming: Locating Restorative Sites of Passage in Zacharias Kunuk’s Festival Performance of Angirattut.” In Indigenous Media Arts in Canada: Making, Caring, Sharing. Ezra Winton and Dana Claxton, eds. Wilfred Laurier University Press, 88-105.
• 2022 (Co-Author) Sicondolfo, Claudia, Debbie Ebanks Schlums et al. “Archive/Counter- Archive: Activating Principles of Respect in Archival Policy Development.” ESSACHESS—Journal for Communication Studies V. 15, N. 1.29 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.21409/YH3A-1K10
• 2019 (Co-Author) Sicondolfo, Claudia and Jonathan Petrychyn. “Archived Passions, Censored Bodies: Passiflora and the Regulation of Sexuality at the NFB.” Senses of Cinema 90 (March 2019). http://sensesofcinema.com/2019/feature-articles/archived-passions-censored-bodies-passiflora-and-the- regulation-of-sexuality-at-the-nfb/.
• 2018 Sicondolfo, Claudia. “‘Filleing’ the Cinema Gap: The Precarity of Toronto’s Necessary Emerging Network of Feminist Film Critics.” In Youth Mediations and Affection Relations, Susan Driver and Natalie Coulter, Eds. New York: Palgrave MacMillian, 175-196.