Camille-Mary Sharp, slender white woman with brown hair in a white shirt and black blazer.

Camille-Mary Sharp

Faculty Fellow, Program in Museum Studies

Education

Ph.D. (Information), University of Toronto; Master of Museum Studies, University of Toronto; Bachelor's (History), Glendon College at York University.

Areas of Research/Interest

Museums and resource extraction; critical and environmental museology; museum protest and activism; corporate sponsorship of culture.

SELECTED WRITINGS

Sharp, C. (2022). Decolonize and Divest: The Changing Landscape of Oil-Sponsored Museums in Canada. [Doctoral thesis, University of Toronto].

 

Sharp, C. (2022). "‘Shell is proud to present…The Spirit Sings’: Museum Sponsorship and Public Relations in Oil Country". Museum & Society (20)2.


Sharp, C. (July 21, 2022). "From Collections to Sponsorship: Notes on the Extractive Museum". Incluseum.


Sharp, C. (2022). "Oil-Sponsored Exhibitions and Canada’s Extractive Politics of Cultural Production". Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies (13)1.


Sharp, C. (2020). "Book review of Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Culture, Museums, Kirsty Robertson". Journal of Curatorial Studies 9(1).

Creative Projects

Beyond Extraction with Alton, C., Matson, Z., McKay, E., & Sharp, C. (2022). Mining at the Museum: A Counter-Tour of the ROM’s Mineral Collection. beyondextraction.ca

Courses

Graduate:

History and Theory of Museums (MSMS-GA 1500)

Research Seminar (MSMS-GA 3991)

Museum Activism (MSMS-GA 3330-004)