Education

2013      Doctor of Philosophy • Department of Sociology, University of Alberta.

2008     Master of Arts • Department of Sociology, Lakehead University.

2006     Bachelor of Arts • Department of Sociology, University of Alberta.

Training

2016     Instructional Skills Workshop • Grande Prairie Regional College

2011     Urban Photography Summer School • Goldsmiths, London

Academic Appointments

2019-ongoing      Instructor, Sociology • Concordia University (Edmonton).

2018-ongoing      Instructor, Sociology • University of Alberta.

2017-18             Assistant Professor, Sociology, Limited Term • University of Lethbridge. Alberta

2016-17             Instructor • Grande Prairie Regional College. Alberta.

2014-16             Instructor • Keyano College. Fort McMurray. Alberta.

2014                 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Henry Marshall Tory Chair Rob Shields

Department of Sociology and The City Region Studies Centre, University of Alberta.

Grants

2019*    $198,790, SSHRC PDG, *P.I., Shu-Ping Chen, and Janki Shankar. Lozowy = Collaborator

2016     $5000 Research Grant. Keyano College

2010     $7000 Research Grant. University of Alberta.

2009     $1500 Outstanding Achievement Grant. University of Alberta.

Articles

Lozowy, A. 2021. Structures of Anticipation: Windsor Tunnel. Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies. Vol 12. Issue 1.Pgs 47-49.

 

Lozowy, A. 2016. NorthByWest, Preface and Introduction. North By West (Edited by Lozowy and

Zeleny). Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies. Vol. 7 Issue. 1. Pgs. 4-13.

Lozowy, A., Shields, R. 2015 Mashup: New Representations of the City. Theory Culture & Society. Vol 31. Issue. 7-8.

Lozowy, A. 2014. Picturing Industrial Landscapes. Space & Culture. Vol. 17. Issue. 4. Pgs. 388-397.

Lozowy, A., Siemens, E. 2013. Lighting Darkness: A conversation with Artist Daniela Schlueter.

Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies. 4-1. Pgs. 106-111.

Lozowy, A., Shields, R., & Dorow, S. 2013. The Camera as a Tool for Assembling “Community.”

Canadian Journal of Sociology. Vol. 38. Issue. 2. Pgs. 191-210.

Lozowy, A. & Patchett, M. 2012. Reframing the Canadian Oil Sands Imaginations: Journal of Cross-

Cultural ImageStudies. Vol. 3. Issue. 2. Pgs. 140-169.

Lozowy, A. 2012. Mega-Haulers. Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste (Zimring, Ed.). Sage. Pgs. 529-530.

Book Review

 

Lozowy, A. 2014. When Technocultures Collide: Innovation from Below and the Struggle for Autonomy.

By Gary Genosko. Review, Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies – Elicitations.

Select – Non-Peer Reviewed Writing

 

Lozowy, A, 2018. The Alley. Ex-Situ Installation and Published Series.

Lozowy, A., 2017. Dear [любий], “The Wallet.” The Polyglot Magazine.

Lozowy, A., Morrow, J. 2012. Living With Winter: Outside/Inside. Curb Magazine


Select – Online Contributions

 

2016      sociologyinplace.wordpress.com, teaching.

2015      andrikolozowy.com, professional.

2015      sociologyinfortmcmurray.wordpress.com.

2014      space&culture.org.

2012      durkheim.ca, Canadian Network of Durkheim Studies.

Conference Presentations

 

2019     Spatialization and a Park above a Rail Tunnel. Theory Culture and Society Conference. Klagenfurt, Austria.

2018     Ethics and Body Mutilation in Performance Art. ISA, Toronto, Canada.

2017     Carpentry, Compassion, and Praxis. University Art Association of Canada

2016     Question Everything. Keyano College.

2015     Crystallizing the Tar Sands. Affect Theory Conference.

2013     Performing Research with Camera’s in hand. International Visual Sociology Conference.

2013     Youth and Adult Geographies Collide. Emotional Geographies Conference.

2012     OilScapes/Oilsands. Oilscapes Workshop. University of Aberdeen.

2012     Visual Installation. 6 Photographs. Field Work in Fort McMurray. Petrocultures Conference.

2012     Visual Politics and the ‘Hand of Censorship’ in Youth Culture”. Petrocultures Conference.

2011     Youth, Photography, & Speculative Geographies. Royal Geographical Society.

2010     Youth Picturing Place and the Intermedia Research Studio. Digitization Day.

2010     Visual Research Methods: What’s out there and What I have tried. University of Alberta.

2010     Where is Fort McMurray: Youth Picturing Place. Pecha-Kucha. University of Alberta.

2010     The Collaborative Process: Youth, Photography and Fort McMurray. Unwrap the Research.

2010     Visual Installation 20 Images. Unwrap the Research.

2010     Arts Based Research: Photography. Roundtable – Unbound Society.

2009     Reading the visual: social landscapes of Fort McMurray. International Visual Sociology Association.

2009     Walking/Driving into What is Community. Engaging Communities.

Art Exhibitions

 

2019     5 images and text – Structures of Feeling, at SB Gallery, University of Windsor.

2018     8 images and text – Capacious, at Affect Inquiry, Millersville, PA.

2017      Bad Weather. 3 Images. 18”x12.” Winter Noir. University of Alberta. Intermedia Studio.

2016      Toxic Media Ecologies. 5 Images. 36”x24.” University of Alberta, Intermedia Studio.

2015     Picturing Place. 20 Images, 36”x24.” Fort McMurray Library.

2015     Walking in Swift Current. 6 Images. 10”x8.” Canadian Congress for the Humanities Conference.

2014     Sensing Alberta. 1 Image. 36”x24.” Photographic and Olfactory Contribution. Intermedia Studio.

2013     Padmanadi Smiles. 40 Images. 24”x16.” Photographer and Curator.

2012     The Vertical. Curator and Collaborator. Intermedia Studio Gallery.

2012     East Germany on Display. Producer, Collaborator. Intermedia Research Studio Gallery.

2012     Picturing Place. Curator, Collaborator, Artist. My Edmonton. University of Alberta.

2011     Consumed. Curator, Collaborator, Artist. University of Alberta, Canada.

2011     Group Exhibition. International Urban Photography Summer School.

2010     Where is Fort McMurray. V2.0. Curator, Collaborator, Artist. Unwrap the Research.

2009     Where is Fort McMurray. Curator. Keyano College, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.

Film

2012     That’s Life. Independent Living for People with Disabilities. (tinyurl.com/jtp6k4m).

Alberta Council of Disability Services (ACDS) Conference.

Invited Presentations

2018     Working with youth using visual methods. Institute for Childhood and Youth Studies I-CYS.

2017     Photography and Sociology. Magpie Talk Series. Grande Prairie Regional College.

2016      Collaborative Research in Virtual Spaces. Guest Lecture for Sociology 604/404 (Rob Shields).

2015     Picturing Place. Keyano College Lecture Series.

2013     Walking and Photography: Edmonton and Oil. Guest Lecture for MLCS Cultural Studies 344 (Elena Siemens).

2013     Analogue and Virtual Worlds. Guest Lecture for Soc 344: Media. (Heidi Bickis).

2012     Focus on Fort McMurray. Invited Guest Lecture for Soc 445: 12 Spaces. (Rob Shields).

2012     Landscapes of Devastation. Guest Lecture for MLCS: Russian Cinema 499:699 (Elena Siemens).

2012     Landscapes as a verb, rather than a noun. Guest Lecture, MLCS: Russian Cinema 499: 699 (Elena Siemens).

2011     Youth Mapping Culture. Oct. Guest Lecture for Modern Languages & Cultural Studies Lecture Series.

2011     Qualitative Methods. Guest Lecture for Soc 315: (Anne Winkler).

2009     Youth, Image, Photography & Ethnography. Guest Lecture for Soc 434: Space/Place (Rob Shields).

2007     The Built Environment as Disabling. Guest Lecturer for Soc 4511: Sociology of Disability.

2006     Old Age, Feminism and First Nations. Invited Guest Lecture. Sociology of Health and Illness.

Research Activities

2017     Feminist Energy Futures. Sheena Wilson P.I., SSHRC Insight Grant. (Collaborator).

2016      A View From Within. Collaborative research project with Keyano Students. Fort McMurray, Alberta.

2014-16 Picturing Place: Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.

2011-12 Intermedia Research Studio Operator Research Assistant. Directed by Dr. Paul Datta.

2008-11 Social Landscapes of Neoliberal Growth. Research Assistant, University of Alberta. Dr. Sara Dorow.

2008-11 Intermedia Research Studio. Sonic Soundscape Mapping. Research Assistant, University of Alberta.

2008-09 Oil, Security, Environment. Research Assistant. Directors: Dr. Mike Gismondi & Dr. Debra Davidson.

2007     Multiple Projects. Research Assistant. Technoculture Lab. Director: Dr. Gary Genosko.

Academic Work Experience

2017     Ongoing. Media Theory, Board Member, Blind Peer Reviewer.

2009-15 Editorial board, Editor, Visual Director of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies.

Teaching

 

2021     Soc 230, Sociology of Sport and Leisure (40 Students Online, Concordia, Winter)

2021     Soc 344, Sociology of Mass Media (40 Students Online, Concordia, Winter)

2021     Soc 369, Sociology of Globalization (25 Students Online, Concordia, Winter)

2021     Soc 375/475, Sociology of Ageing (45+7 Students Online, Concordia, Winter)

2021     Soc 480, Independent Study Student – Space, Place, Downtown Lethbridge.

2020     Sociology 377, Sociology of Youth (45 Students Online * Covid19, Concordia, Fall)

2020     Sociology 353, Urban Sociology (18 Students Online *Covid19, Concordia Fall)

2020     Sociology 100, Introduction to Sociology (50 Students Online *Covid19, Concordia, Fall)

2020     Sociology 230, Sport and Leisure (35 Students Online *Covid19, Concordia, Summer)

2020     Sociology 102, Social Problems (35 Students Online *Covid 19, Concordia, Summer)

2020     Sociology 226, Surveillance (40 Students Online *Covid19, UofA, Spring)

2020     Sociology 375/475, Ageing (40 Students + 6 Students Capstone Thesis, Concordia, Winter)

2020     Sociology 369, Globalization (30 Students, Concordia, Winter)

2020     Sociology 100, Introduction (60 Students, Concordia, Winter)

2019     Sociology 382, Sociology of Health and Illness (20 Students, Concordia, Fall)

2019     Sociology 377, Sociology of Youth (55 Students, Concordia, Fall)

2019     Sociology 203, Social Problems (40 Students, UofA, Spring)

2019     Sociology 353, Urban Sociology (40 Students, Concordia Edmonton, Winter)

2019     Sociology 375/475, Sociology of Aging (40 Students, Concordia Edmonton, Winter)

2019     Sociology 343, Social Movements (56 Students, UofA, Winter)

2018     Sociology 203, Social Problems (120 Students, UofA, Fall)

2018      Sociology 335, Contemporary Social Theory (12 Students, UofA, Summer)

2018     Sociology 1000, Intro to Sociology (70 Students UofL, Summer)

2018      Sociology 4990, Pornography and Praxis: An Exploration of Sexuality and Identity. (Independent Study)

2018      Sociology 3990, Food Security and Food Waste on Campus. (Independent Study)

2018      Sociology 2410, Sociology of Gender (80 Students UofL)

2018     Sociology 2050, Social Inequality (60 Students UofL)

2018      Sociology 1000, Intro to Sociology (150 Students UofL)

2017      Sociology 3210, Classical Social Theory (30 Students UofL)

2017      Sociology 1000, Intro to Sociology (300 Students UofL)

2017      Sociology 3010, Gender (26 Students)

2017      Sociology 2240, Deviance and Conformity (14 Students)

2017      Sociology 1000, Intro to Sociology (30 Students)

2017      Sociology 1000, Intro to Sociology (40 Students)

2016      Sociology 2800, Sexuality (18 Students)

2016      Sociology 1020, Social Problems, Digital Work (20 Students)

2016      Sociology 1000, Intro to Sociology (25 Students)

2016     Sociology 1000, Intro to Sociology (40 Students)

2016      Sociology 301, Sociology of Gender (22 Students)

2016      Sociology 260, Social Problems: The Internet (10 Students)

2016      Sociology 100, Intro to Sociology (40 Students)

2016      Sociology 100, Intro to Sociology (80 Students)

2015      Sociology 271, The Family, online (17 Students)

2015      Sociology 212, Classical Social Theory (8 Students)

2015      Sociology 269, Globalization (7 Students)

2015      Sociology 100, Intro to Sociology (35 Students)

2015      Sociology 100, Intro to Sociology Spring (10 Students)

2015      Sociology 100, Intro to Sociology (60 Students)

2015      Sociology 100, Intro to Sociology (30 Students)

2015      Sociology 260, Social Problems (10 Students)

2015      Sociology 104, Sociology of Sport (8 Students)

2014      Sociology 100, Intro to Sociology (40 Students)

2014      Sociology 102, Social Problems (10 Students)

2014      Sociology 269, Globalization (12 Students)

2014      Sociology 271, The Family (24 Students)

2013      Sociology 100, Introduction to Sociology (60 Students)

2013      Sociology 492, Queer(ing) the Social (22 Students)

Professional Service

2015-16 Co-Editor, Managing Editor, of North-West a special Issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies with Kyler Clarke.

2009-15 Design Editor, Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies.

2012     Chair and Organizer. Space & Culture Theory Retreat. Faculty Support: Dr. Rob Shields & Dr. Jason Wallin.

2012-13 Co-Editor, Managing Editor, and Design Editor for Imaginations Issue 4-1. Scandals of Horror.

2012     Co-Curate. My Edmonton. Photography Exhibition with Dr. Elena Siemens. University of Alberta.

2011     Co-Curate Consumed. Art Exhibition with Dr. Elena Siemens and Jim Morrow. University of Alberta.

2010     Founding Editor & Technical Editor of Imaginations Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies.

William Anselmi, Daniel Laforest, Dalbir Sehmby, Carrie Smith-Prei, & Sheena Wilson (Eds).

2009     Co-Chair with Heidi Bickis. Space & Culture Reading/Writing Group Theory Retreat. Faculty Support: Dr. Rob Shields & Jan Jagodinsky.

2008-09 Co-Chair with Barret Webber. Engaging Communities. Interdisciplinary Conference. Keynote: Dr. Jodi Dean.

2008-09 Vice President Social. Sociology Graduate Students Association.

2008      Co-Chair with Heidi Bickis. Theory Retreat. Faculty Support: Dr. Rob Shields.

2006-07 Communication and Design Team, Graduate Student Association. Lakehead University.

2006-07 Stewards Council, Sociology Graduate Students Union Representative. Lakehead University.

Professional Memberships

 

International Sociology Association

Universities Art Association Canada

International Visual Sociology Association

Community Involvement

2018-    Gateway Association, Disability & Transition Planning Workshops for Adulthood

2018-    Grant Writer, and Workshop Facilitator for The Gateway Association for Community Living

2018-    Edmonton Group of Activists and Researchers in relation to Undocumented Migrants

2014-16 Vice President. Gateway Association for Community Living.

2011-14 Volunteer Mechanic. Bike Works, Edmonton Bicycle Commuters.

2010-12 Puppy-Raiser. Dogs with Wings. Dogs.

2009-13 Kundalini Yoga Instructor. Edmonton, Alberta. yasodhara.org.

2008-12 Volunteer to support a young man with Autism.

2008-13 Hatha Yoga Instructor. Edmonton, Alberta.

2007     Film Festival. Volunteer. Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.

2006     Film Festival. Volunteer. Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.

2005-06 Space and Culture Reading Group – Organizer. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Languages

English is my primary language.
I also have a working knowledge of reading, writing and speaking Ukrainian.