Sarah E.K. Smith

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  • Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture & Global Relations and Associate Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Western University

My research on visual art, exhibitions and museums is united in its focus on economic and political issues. Recent projects have addressed culture and free trade, collective organizing among artists in Canada, and cultural diplomacy. I am a Co-Founder of the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative and a member of the International Cultural Relations Research Alliance. In 2015 I held the Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. Before joining the faculty at Western University, I worked at Carleton University and prior to that I held a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta and a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Associate Professor, Western University
  • 2021–2023
    Assistant Professor, Western University
  • 2017–2021
    Assistant Professor, Carleton University

Education

  • 2013 
    Queen's University, PhD Art History

Publications

  • 2025
    Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America, UBC Press

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