Cynthia Milton
Dr. Milton is a Professor and Associate Vice-President of Research in the Department of History at the University of Victoria. She is a former President of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada. She is also a former Research Chair in the History Department at the Université de Montréal. She was also the 2019-2020 Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellowship recipient.
Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach and emphasizes the diffusion of knowledge. She is interested in researching inclusive truth-telling, transitional justice, memory and history in the context of state violence. She has a research focus on the region of Latin America.
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of Victoria |
| Fields of Expertise: | Collective Identity Historical Injustice and Trauma Memory Politics |
| Research groups: | Memory Politics |
| Email: | cmilton@uvic.ca |
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| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Cynthia E. Milton and Michael J. Lazzara, eds. How the Military Remembers: Countermemories and Challenges to Human Rights in Latin America. Edited book project, University of Wisconsin Press (under consideration) Constance Backhouse, Cynthia Milton, Margaret Kovach and Adele Perry, eds., Royally Wronged: The Royal Society of Canada and the Marginalization of Indigenous Knowledge. McGill-Queen’s University Press, (submitted) “‘Not a Little Disappointment’: The Postcolonial Predicament of Emulation and Exclusion.” In Royally Wronged. Constance Backhouse, Cynthia Milton, Margaret Kovach and Adele Perry, eds., McGill-Queen’s University Press, (under consideration) (8,000 words) “Art as Remembrance and Trace in Post-Conflict Latin America.” In Posthumanism in Art and Science: A Reader, eds., Giovanni Aloi. New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming. Reprint |
