Dr. Sophie Tamas

Biography

Sophie Tamas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University. Her expertise lies in the interplay of subjectivity, trauma, and narrative in geography, with particular focus on emotional, feminist, psychoanalytic, and non-representational geographies. She holds a Bachelor of Integrated Studies from the University of Waterloo, a Master of Arts from Carleton University, and a PhD from Carleton University. Tamas's research employs qualitative, arts-based, and autoethnographic Indigenous methods. Her doctoral work investigated the long-term effects of domestic abuse through arts-based approaches and critiques of prevailing recovery narratives. Following her SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at Queen’s University, she examined emotional geographies within scrapbooking practices. Tamas aims to establish an arts-based research lab focused on emotional geographies. She has published several works in notable journals and edited volumes.

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