Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte

Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte is a cultural policy scholar with a creative practitioner background who specializes in the study of organizational and governance issues in the Canadian cultural sector. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University’s Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts. Mariane completed a PhD in Communication (2025) and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (2012) at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. Her PhD dissertation maps the history of artist-run centres in British Columbia in relation to evolving cultural governance processes and apparatuses at federal and provincial levels and within artist-run networks. She is the Director of Mobilizing the Canadian Community-Driven Audiovisual Archives Policy Network, a knowledge mobilization project that aims to build capacity across the community-based audiovisual archives sector in the areas of organizational policy, sectoral policy, and network self-governance. Her research on Canadian cultural policy, artist-run organizations, and the intersections of digital technologies with arts management has been published in the Canadian Journal of Communication, BC Studies, ESSACHESS: Journal of Communication Studies, TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation, and in various edited collections.