| MARCIA OSTASHEWSKI |
932 Premier Road |
CURRENT PROFILE HIGHLIGHTS
Researcher
Canadian and Ukrainian music and dance, the relationship between music and dance, gender issues in performance, heritage tourism, nationhood and group identity
Work independently and in collaboration with scholars on community-based research, dance in immigrant communities, interrelationships of Ukrainian immigrants and Aboriginal Canadians, women of the north, people of the prairies, Ukrainian communities on various continents
University Educator
Assistant Professor teaching music, anthropology and sociology courses at Nipissing University
Guest lecturer at other universities
Administration and Program Development
Continual program development and course creation in music, anthropology and sociology at Nipissing University
Participate in the adjudication of Nipissing University scholarship applications and revisions of related policies
Community Service
Facilitate community music and dance events, including Routes and Rhythms series, British North American social dance workshops
Publish in popular press on artists who work with me as research participants
EDUCATION
Ph.D. candidate (ABD/expected June 2008: Music, Dance and the Performance of Heritage: Gender, Place and Nationbuilding Among Western Canada's Ukrainians ) Ethnomusicology, York University .
B. Mus. University of Alberta, 1995.
Additional Relevant Education
Laban Movement Analysis, Workshop. Department of Dance, York University , August 2002.
Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute. Harvard University , August 1993.
RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Assistant Professor, Anthropology/ Sociology. Nipissing University . August 2003- present.
Teaching Assistant, Departments of Music, Dance, Fine Arts Cultural Studies. York University . September 1996-April 2003.
Teaching Development Graduate Assistant. Department of Music, York University. September 1998-April 2000.
Contract Ethnographer (for Dr. R. B. Klymasz). Canadian Museum of Civilization. March 1999.
Research Assistant (for Dr. Beverley Diamond and Dr. Jodi Berland). York University. September 1996-April 2003.
Junior Interpretive Programme Creator and Facilitator. Historical Interpreter. Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village . 1996, 1992-1993 (summers).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses Taught at Nipissing University (2003-present)
Music
MUSC 2056/2057: Music and Popular Culture I and II (North American and British-based popular musics based on core themes, Global Pop and "World Beat")
MUSC 1006/1007: Exploring Music and Culture I and II (Introduction to music from a "world music" perspective based on concepts and fundamentals)
Gender Equality and Social Justice
GEND 2406/2407: Gender and Performance I and II
Arts and Cultures
CULT 1005: Introduction to Studies in Culture and the Arts
Anthropology
ANTR 1005: Introduction to Anthropology
ANTR 2006: Cultural Anthropology
ANTR 2007: Communities and Cultures
ANTR 3376: Special Topics, Ethnicity and National Identity (scheduled for Fall 2008)
Sociology
SOCI 4036: Qualitative Methods in Research (scheduled for Winter 2008)
Teaching Assistantships at York University (1996-2003 )
Music
MUSI 2200: Music and Cultures II (Western Art music content for Music majors)
MUSI 1510/1520: The Musical Experience I and II (Western Art music content for non-majors)
MUSI 3300: Music of World Cultures
Fine Arts Cultural Studies
INFA 1900: Arts and Ideas
Dance
DANC 2356: Music for Dancers II
Courses/areas developed for future teaching include:
Music and Identity in Eastern Europe : Negotiating Space, Place and Gender
- Music and Politics
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Music in Canada
- Music, Media and Performance
- Culture and Tourism
PUBLIC OUTPUT FROM RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
Academic Publications (peer-reviewed)
(2001). "Identity Politics and Western Canadian Ukrainian Musics: Globalizing the Local or Localizing the Global?" Topia: a Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies , Special Issue on Music and Memory , vol.6, 63-82.
(2001). "Women Playing the Bandura: Challenging Notions of Nationhood," Ethnologies , vol. 23/1. 123-146.
Academic Publications (invited)
(2003). "Reclaiming Spaces, Contested Places: a Ukrainian Cultural Festival in Poland ." Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display . Sanchez- Carretero, C. and J. Santino (eds.). 33-44. Alcala , Spain : Universidad de Alcala, Biblioteca de Estudios Norteamericanos.
(2001). "Diamond, Beverley." Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklop ä die der Musik (MGG) . Finscher, L. (ed.). vol. 5:966- 967. Kassel : Barenreiter.
(1999). "Musical Traditions and Individual Agency: The Role of Cantor Albert Mahon in Canada 's Anglican Plainsong Revival," in From Chantre to Djak: Cantorial Traditions in Canada . Klymasz, Robert B. (ed.). 147-155. Ottawa : Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Academic Publications (other)
(in progress, forthcoming in 2008). Joint editor (with Sherry Johnson and Kristin Harris) of a special Ethnologies issue on vernacular dance in Canada .
(2003 Summer). Review of: Greenhill, P. and D. Tye, Undisciplined Women . Canadian University Music Review , 23/1.
(2002 Fall). Review of: Paris to Kyiv, Prairie Nights and Peacock Feathers (CD). Canadian Society for Traditional Music Bulletin , vol. 36, no. 3, 37-38.
Popular Press
(2007 Fall). Invited feature article on Alexis Kochan/Paris To Kyiv in Nasha Doroha (a Canadian Ukrainian women's quarterly magazine). Edmonton : Ukrainian Catholic Women's League of Canada.
(2005). Liner notes in FRAGMENTI . Paris to Kyiv. Winnipeg : Olesia Records. AKBCD05.
(from 1998 to 2003). Invited freelance contributions to: The Ukrainian Weekly (Parsippany, N.J.) and Zdorov! A Magazine of Ukrainian Things ( Toronto ).
Conference Presentations
"Music, Dance and Multiculturalism: Western Canadian Ukrainians and the Expediency of Culture," Canadian Society for Traditional Music Annual Meeting, November 2007. ( Edmonton , Canada )
"Dancing Gender and Heritage: the Cossack and the Maiden on/as the Nation's Stage," American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, October 2007. ( Quebec , Canada ).
" The Cossack and the Maiden: Gender and Nation in Canadian Ukrainian Culture," Feminist Theory and Music 9, June 2007. ( Montreal , Canada )
"Cultural Politics , Canada and Australia : Music and Dance in Ukrainian Diaspora Communities," Post-Colonial Distances: The Study of Popular Music in Canada and Australia , June 2005. ( St. John's , Canada )
"Shumka's Cinderella: Ukrainian dance will never be the same again", Society for Ethnomusicology, November 2004. ( Tucson , USA )
"Shifting Styles: an Examination of Western Canadian Ukrainian dance". Folklore Studies Association of Canada , May 2004. ( Winnipeg , Canada )
With Sherry Johnson. "Collaborative Research: To the Field and Beyond". 20th Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference: Traditions and Transitions, May 2003. ( Ottawa , Canada )
"Dance, Music, and Nationhood: Identity Negotiations and Ukrainian Canadian Festival Performances" at Society for Ethnomusicology , October 2002. ( Estes Park , USA )
"Identity Studies and Ethnomusicology: Who am/are I/you looking at?" International Council for Traditional Music, July 2001. ( Rio de Janeiro , Brazil )
"Women Playing the Bandura: Challenging Notions of Nationhood," Canadian Association of Slavists , May 2001. ( Laval , Canada )
"Going Global? Transnational Musical Production as a Means of Renegotiating Ukrainian Nationhood," Times, Places, Passages : 7 th Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore, April 2001.( Budapest , Hungary )
"Transnational Musical Production as a Means of Renegotiating Ukrainian Nationhood: the Activities of a New York Banduryst," Local Music/Global Connections, March 2001. ( New York City , USA )
"Identity Politics and Western Canadian Ukrainian Musics: Globalizing the Local or Localizing the Global?" Society for Ethnomusicology, November 2000. ( Toronto , Canada )
"Music, Dance, Nation and Gender: a Ukrainian Love Duet," Music and Gender Study Group of International Council for Traditional Music, August 2000. ( Toronto , Canada )
"Reclaiming Spaces, Contested Places: a Ukrainian Cultural Festival in Poland ," Popular Culture and Society Workshop : The 4th Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display, June 2000. ( Alcala , Spain )
"Musical Traditions and Individual Agency: The Role of Cantor Albert Mahon in Canada 's Anglican Plainsong Revival," Society for Ethnomusicology, Niagara Chapter; April 1999. ( Toronto , Canada )
"Ukrainian Maidens and Mothers: Tradition as Power in Modern Canada ," Ukrainians in Canada and the United States : Cross-Border Interaction and Comparative Studies, 1890s-1990s, October 1998. ( Toronto , Canada )
Seminars and Public Lectures
"Performing Gender and Ethnicity in Music and Dance," INFA 1900: Arts and Ideas. York University , February 2008. ( Toronto , Canada ) (forthcoming).
"Ukrainian Music in Canada : Community and Diversity." MUSI 3103: Canadian Musical Heritage. Carleton University , March 2007. ( Ottawa , Canada )
"Gender and Dance in Canada : Historical and Contemporary Sites of Negotiation." DANC 4330/5330: Anthropology of Dance in Canada , York University, February 2005. ( Toronto , Canada )
"Dance, Music and Nationhood: Exploring Sites of Canadian Ukrainian Cultural Production." Department of History Seminar Series, Nipissing University , March 2004. ( North Bay , Canada )
"Canadian Ukrainian Music Production: An Historical Overview." Music 4370: Canadian Music, York University , November 2001. ( Toronto , Canada )
"The Bandura: Ukraine 's National Instrument through Time and Space." Kobzarska Sich Bandura Camp, August 2001. ( Emlenton , USA )
"Transnational Musical Production as a Means of Re-negotiating Ukrainian Nationhood: Contemporary Bandura Performance Practices." Institute for Ethnology, Graduate Ethnomusicology Seminar, May 2001. ( Zagreb , Croatia )
"Western Canadian Ukrainian Social Dance: Survival Tips for a Ukrainian Wedding" (lecture/workshop with CD ROM). York University , March 2000. ( Toronto , Canada )
"Ukrainian Canadian Music: a Focus on the West and the early 1900s." Music 2350:Music of the Americas , York University , March 1999. ( Toronto , Canada )
"The Implications of ‘folk' in Ukrainian Folk Music at the beginning of the Twentieth Century." Music 2310, York Universtiy, October 1996. ( Toronto , Canada )
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Member of the Board of Directors, Routes and Rhythms. (October 2005-present).
Member of the Board of Directors, Nipissing Transition House. (June 2005- December 2007).
ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES
Member, Nipissing University Faculty Association (NUFA) Scholarship Committee. June 2005-present.
RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS
Helen Darcovich Memorial Doctoral Fellowship (Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies). 2003.
Ontario Graduate Scholarship. 2002.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC) 2001, 2000, 1999.
Research Grants (Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko, for Doctoral research). 2001, 2000.
The Dean's Academic Excellence Award ( York University ). 1999.
Marusia Yaworska Entrance Scholarship. 1998.
Marusia and Michael Dorosh Master's Thesis Fellowship (Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies). 1997.
Bursary from the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko (for Master's research). 1997.
Grant from the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko (to attend Harvard University ). 1993.
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES AND LEARNED SOCIETIES
Society for Ethnomusicology
International Council for Traditional Music
Canadian Society for Traditional Music
International Association for the Study of Popular Music
Feminist Theory and Music Association
Folklore Studies Association of Canada
American Folklore Society
CID-UNESCO (International Dance Council)
LANGUAGES
Fluent in: English, Ukrainian
Working knowledge of: French, Polish, Croatian, Russian, German
