Candis Callison is a Canadian environmental journalist and academic of journalism, who works as an associate professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), affiliated both with the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at UBC.
Life
Callison is a member of the Tahltan people from northwestern British Columbia, and is originally from Vancouver. After previously working for almost eight years as a television journalist in Canada, she earned a master's degree in comparative media studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002, and completed her doctorate there in 2010. She joined the UBC faculty in 2009.
Books
Callison is the author of the book How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke University Press, 2014). With Mary Lynn Young, she is the coauthor of Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Recognition
In 2019, Callison was elected as an international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
References
- ^ Candis Callison, retrieved 2020-07-22
- ^ "Candis Callison SM '02 PhD '10, professor and award-winning journalist, to speak at 2018 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods", MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 3 April 2018
- Review of How Climate Change Comes to Matter:
- Bond, Jonathan (10 February 2015), "How Climate Change Comes to Matter: A New Take on Climate Change", Vancouver Weekly
- Roscoe, Paul (November 2015), "Review" (PDF), Journal of International & Global Studies, 7 (1): 119–121
- Marino, Elizabeth (2016), Anthropos, 111 (1): 242–243, doi:10.5771/0257-9774-2016-1-242, JSTOR 43862072
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Channa, Subhadra Mitra, "Review" (PDF), Anthropological Notebooks, 22 (2): 129–130
- Skrydstrup, Martin (September 2016), "Speaking climate change to power", BioSocieties, 11 (3): 401–405, doi:10.1057/s41292-016-0024-1, S2CID 151363568
- Veldman, Robin Globus (January 2017), The Journal of Religion, 97 (1): 103–104, doi:10.1086/688991
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Welstead, Jean (January 2017), Social Movement Studies, 16 (3): 370–371, doi:10.1080/14742837.2017.1279961, S2CID 151487822
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Rankins, Kenneth (February 2017), Electronic Green Journal, 1 (40), doi:10.5070/g314031128
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Lippert, Ingmar (November 2017), "How do environments come to matter?", Science as Culture, 27 (2): 265–275, doi:10.1080/09505431.2017.1398225, S2CID 149147980
- Review of Reckoning:
- Smith, Charlie (16 February 2020), "UBC professors' Reckoning offers a timely treatise on journalism in the midst of an Indigenous-led resistance", The Georgia Straight
- UBC j-prof Candis Callison elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, UBC Graduate School of Journalism, 18 April 2019, retrieved 2020-07-22
- Candis Callison, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, retrieved 2020-07-22
Further reading
- Linnitt, Carol (17 June 2020), "Who tells the story of the present? Candis Callison on redefining journalism in Canada", The Narwhal