Cultural Diplomacy and Trade: Making Connections

Jeffrey Brison (he/him)

Co-founder and team member of NACDI; Director of Cultural Studies and Professor of History, Queen's University,

Jeffrey Brison is Director of the Cultural Studies Program and Professor in History at Queen's University and a founding member of the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative (NACDI).

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Lynda Jessup (she/her)

Director of NACDI, Vice Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science, Queen's University

Lynda Jessup is Vice Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen’s University and Director and co-founder of the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative (NACDI).

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Ben Schnitzer (he/him)

PhD candidate, Cultural Studies, Queen’s University; Manager of Policy and Research, 2SLGBTQI+ Secretariat, Queen’s University

Ben Schnitzer is a PhD candidate at Queen’s University and was awarded a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to support his research on Canadian cultural diplomacy and cultural policy. 

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Sarah E.K. Smith (she/her)

Co-founder and Team member of NACDI; Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture and Global Relations; Associate Professor, Western University,

Co-founder and active NACDI team member, Sarah E.K. Smith is the Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture and Global Relations at Western University.

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