About the Author

Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere

Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere teaches and researches Canadian art histories with a focus on photographic archives and institutional narratives. Her writing on tourist views, instructed looking, survey photography, railroad bridges, photographic directories, royals on timber slides, and giant (really giant!) mounds of ice has been published in Environmental History, Journal of Canadian Studies, Histoire sociale / Social History, Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, RACAR: Revue d’art canadienne / Canadian Art Review, and the Journal of Canadian Art History. In the edited volume Survey Practices and Landscape Photography Across the Globe (Routledge, 2022), Cavaliere contributed a chapter titled “Claimed, Imagined, Idealized: Survey Photographs from the Northwest Boundary Commission, 1857–1862.” She is also a co-author of CanadARThistories, a collaborative and iterative reimagining of the way the discipline is taught. In 2012, Cavaliere was awarded a Lisette Model / Joseph G. Blum Fellowship in the History of Photography to pursue her research at the National Gallery of Canada. In 2015, her dissertation was awarded the Michel de la Chenelière Prize by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Cavaliere received her PhD from Concordia University in 2016. She was a Jarislowsky Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at Concordia’s Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art in 2017 and an SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at Queen’s University until 2021. She is a settler-Canadian and granddaughter of Italian immigrants, residing in Toronto/Tkaronto.