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Professor Tonya Davidson holds the rank of Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, where she also serves as Undergraduate Program Coordinator. Her work focuses on urban spaces, public memory, nostalgia, and Canadian identity, particularly through the lens of monuments in Ottawa. She has been teaching since 2010, emphasizing pedagogical innovation and excellence in introductory sociology courses.
Education: PhD in Sociology from the University of Alberta.
Research interests revolve around the social lives of statues, seasonal sociology, and the intersection of urban environments with cultural memory. Notable works include Tours Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging (2024) and co-editing Seasonal Sociology (2020). Her scholarship critically examines how monuments mediate national belonging, imperial legacies, and gendered narratives in Canadian contexts.
Publications span cultural studies, urban research, and memory studies, with frequent contributions to journals like Topia, Space and Culture, and Canadian Journal of Urban Research. She actively supervises graduate students in sociology and contributes to Carleton's teaching excellence initiatives.
