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Elizabeth Cavaliere serves as a Sessional Lecturer in the Art Department within the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge's Calgary Campus. A settler-Canadian and granddaughter of Italian immigrants residing in Toronto/Tkaronto, she specializes in Canadian art histories with concentrated expertise in photographic and institutional histories.
Her research critically examines visual culture through lenses of power and representation, focusing on Canadian identity construction. Key areas include tourist imagery, instructed looking practices, survey photography, infrastructure in visual documentation (railroad bridges), photographic directories, royal iconography in colonial contexts (royals on timberslides), and monumental ice formations. These investigations appear in leading interdisciplinary journals including Environmental History, Journal of Canadian Studies, Histoire Sociale/Social History, Imaginations, RACAR, and Journal of Canadian Art History.
Dr. Cavaliere's scholarly contributions have earned significant recognition:
- Lisette Model/Joseph G. Blum Fellowship in History of Photography (2012) supporting research at National Gallery of Canada
- Michel de la Chenelière Prize (2015) from Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for outstanding dissertation
- Jarislowsky Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2017) at Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art
Available documentation indicates no formal student supervision or research grant activities. Her work demonstrates sustained engagement with Canadian visual culture through institutional archives and photographic practices without mention of laboratory affiliations or team-based research structures.
