Victoria MacBeath

Victoria (Tori) MacBeath is a PhD student in the Art History department at Concordia University. She holds an MA in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory from McMaster University. Victoria's SSHRC-funded doctoral research considers how crafted objects act as materializations of a feminist ethics of care in rural New Brunswick. In doing so, her project tackles themes of decolonization, labour history, language politics, marginalized communities and histories of making, and place- and identity-making.
Victoria is actively involved in the arts community in Montreal, serving as a PhD Representative on the Art History Graduate Student Association, and a student representative on the Doc-Inter Student Committee. She is a member of the Textiles & Materiality Research Cluster and co-organizes a mending-related monthly speaker series. Victoria’s research interest in labour histories has also manifested in community work, serving on the bargaining committee for the Concordia Research and Education Worker’s Union.