Siân Lathrop

Siân Lathrop (she/her) is an undergraduate student in Philosophy and Communication at McGill University. She was the 2019 recipient of the Arts Undergraduate Improvement Fund (AUIF) Internship Award, which funded her journalism internship at CKUT, a community radio station. She is a current recipient of the 2020 Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Research Internship Award, and is working on a project entitled “Rethinking the Saint Lawrence Seaway,” supervised by Dr. Darin Barney and conducted under the auspices of the Grierson Research Group in Communication Studies.

Contact: sian.lathrop@mail.mcgill.ca

Projects

Rethinking the Saint Lawrence Seaway (Supervised Independent Study; ongoing) is a research project funded in part by the Bram Garber Arts Undergraduate Research Internship Award, as well as an independent study supervised by Dr. Darin Barney. The project contextualizes the displacement of Kahnawa:ke’s residents through an analysis of media coverage contemporary to the Seaway’s construction, and reframes the discussion surrounding the Seaway using emerging critical literature on settler-colonial infrastructures.

Activity

Workshop - J-School: Anti-O and the Media. A series of four workshops on decolonizing media infrastructures hosted by The McGill Daily in collaboration with CKUT, McGill University, September 6-28 2019. Speakers included Saima Desai, editor of Briarpatch Magazine and Omme-Salma Rahemtullah of GroundWire. Coordinated by Siân Lathrop. Information at https://issuu.com/mcgilldaily/docs/dailyvol109issue03