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Roxanne Cornellier
Roxanne Cornellier is an emerging scholar hailing from Tiohtia:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at McGill University, where she contributed to research led by Dr. Charmaine Nelson focusing on James McGill's ties to slavery and the publication of the Bicentenary Recommendations. Currently pursuing her MA, her thesis explores the archives of the Young Men Hebrew Association Minstrels, analyzing the impact of blackface minstrelsy's visual culture on the formation of whiteness in early twentieth-century Montreal. Cornellier serves as the coordinator for the Abolition Worlds working group at Concordia University and holds the position of Co-President of the Art History Graduate Student Association (AHGSA)
