Education

SAVANNAH KOSTENIUK (SHE/HER)

UBCO GRADUATE RESEARCHER (2023-2025)

Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies (Power, Conflict, Ideas)

University of British Columbia | Okanagan Campus | Sylix Okanagan Nation Territory

Email: savkos@student.ubc.ca

Affiliations at UBCO: Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies

Research interests are: Indigenous and Black relations, experimental and arts-based ethnography, multimodal anthropology, decolonization, placemaking; Black diasporic identity; race and representation

Savannah Kosteniuk (she/her) is a graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program, in the Power, Conflict, and Ideas Theme at UBCO. Her Master’s thesis project entitled Imaginative Intimacies: An Arts-based Ethnography of Black and Indigenous Co-resistance and Place-making on the Prairies examines Black and Indigenous relations and visual practices in her community located on Treaty Four Territory and on the homeland of the Métis.

Savannah completed her Bachelor of Arts degree (2019) in anthropology and art history, graduating with great distinction and the University Prize in Arts, at the University of Regina. As an undergraduate, Savannah conducted research on Eurpean representations of exoticized “others” in the Early Modern period and on the racialization and representation of individuals with FASD.

Savannah has worked as an editorial assistant and media editor with Transforming Anthropology, the flagship journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists, since 2020. She has also worked as a publishing assistant and board member at Briarpatch Magazine, a Canadian magazine devoted to politics and culture.

Savannah was awarded a 2023 SSHRC Canadian Graduate Master’s Award for her research that advances her work and she is supervised by Dr. Fiona P. McDonald.

University of Regina Bachelor of Arts 2019