A Canadian in Cairo

With the news of winning a national scholarship still fresh,  PhD Candidate Janis Goldie is in Egypt, presenting research at the International Association for Media and Communication Research conference, held at the American University in Cairo.

The conference explores insights into the multiple dimensions of the issues and strategies that are related to the "digital divide" and other barriers to sustainable growth, use and development of information and communication technologies and mass media.

Goldie's research investigates memory construction in three Canadian Royal Commissions: the deployment of Canadian Forces to Somalia; the Macdonald Commission; and the treatment of Japanese Canadians during WWII. Her doctoral work recently won her a Security and Defence Forum Scholarship (PDF) from the Department of National  Defence.

Earlier this year, Goldie was part of the first crop of Alberta graduate students to receive a Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship, awarded by the Government of Alberta. Goldie received these awards for her research in the area of collective memory. Her work focuses on the ways that memory gets negotiated and institutionalized within Canadian Royal Commissions of Inquiry.