ABOUT
The Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History (CUJAH) is a student-run association that aims to showcase the talents of Concordia University’s undergraduate Art History and Fine Arts students by means of an annual journal publication and conference event.
CUJAH strives to provide students with academic and professional opportunities through workshops, events, and online resources. CUJAH is composed of an executive team, an editorial team, and a design team and is assisted by faculty members in the Department of Art History.
We acknowledge that Concordia University is located on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters we now call Montreal. Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal) is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations. Today, it is home to a diverse population of Indigenous and other peoples. We respect the continued connections with the past, present and future in our ongoing relationships with Indigenous and other peoples within the Montreal community.
Executive Team ↴
Mia Jodorcovsky
Editor-In-Chief
Mia Jodorcovsky is completing her BFA in Art History and minor in Sociology, as well as her Certificate in Afro-Latin American Studies from ALARI at the Hutchin’s Center. An emerging scholar specializing in Afro-Argentine and Latin American history, she focuses on urban slavery in Buenos Aires and its obscured legacies throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her research challenges dominant narratives of racial homogeneity.
Leslie Emily Irias Montoya
Conference + Events Co-Director
Leslie is a Nicaraguan living in Montreal since early childhood and is in her third year of the Art History major. She is most interested in the non-Western narratives of art history, such as the perspectives of indigenous peoples and countries outside of Europe and North America. In her free time, she likes to read and watch movies and is also taking painting classes for her major which let her materialize her passion for the arts.
Managing Editor
Sam Tréville
Samantha (Sam) Tréville is a third-year Art History student born and bred in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. With a background in visual arts and music, her interest in art history flourished from a very young age. Now, her academic work surrounds interdisciplinary, anti-colonial, and feminist studies with a passion for decorative arts and multimedia. A big believer in the personal being political, Sam hopes to enlarge and diversify the local artist community, using art historical narratives and language to broaden artistic expressions and bridge history and community through art.
Michaëlle Lahaye
Assistant Managing Editor + Outreach Director
Michaëlle Lahaye is in her final year of undergraduate studies at Concordia University, where’s she completing a BFA in Art History with a Minor in Religions and Cultures. Outside of her role at CUJAH, she is Managing Editor at Yiara Magazine. Through her current research, Michaëlle examines the visual culture of slavery in eighteenth-century French art and architecture. She’s also interested in modern decorative art movements. After the completion of her BFA, Michaëlle hopes to pursue graduate studies in Art History abroad.
Parsa Fard
Creative Director
Parsa Fard is a Multimedia Artist & Designer based in Montreal, Canada. His practice infuses traditional and new media to create multifaceted experiences. In his recent work, he explores the marriage of painting and 3D modelling and animation. Parsa is also interested in interactive cinema and immersive technologies in the fine arts . His work explores themes such as virtual space, cultural identity and globalization.
Amelie Wheatley
Conference + Events Co-Director
Amelie Wheatley is in her third year at Concordia University, majoring in philosophy with a minor in art history. Although art history is not her major, it is the most important and largest focus in her studies. Amelie is a multimedia artist with a focus on print media, digital collage, and moving images - working with themes of interpersonality, love, and movement. She is looking forward to being CUJAH's co-event director this year!
Rebekah Walker is an art historian and textile artist studying at Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke. They are passionate about the intricacies of craft as a gendered, socialist, and material art form along with the ties it creates between community and private spheres. Their research combines their art practice and research into a “making-based” research method; allowing the art and the subject to inform each other.
Rebekah Walker
Financial Director
Emiliano is a writer and an undergraduate in Cultural Studies with a minor in Art History. His work focuses on art innovation and strategy to support students, artists, and nonprofits defining their unique perspective and direction. He is currently a research candidate in the Transdisciplinary Studies program at the New Centre of Research and Practice.
Service Design and Strategy
Emiliano Guevara
BOARD MEMBERS
Adèle Ledoux, Amithy Faith Escorpizo, Anakin Boucher, Elizabeth Zara, Emitees Tajdari, Emmy Voges, Jade Lacoste, Jega Delisca, Julia Gouëllo, Julia Silva, Ruby Feiler