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Jason Luckerhoff
2006 Trudeau Scholar
jason.luckerhoff@trudeaufoundation.net
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Assistant Professor in Social Communication and Cultural Studies, Department of Literature and Social Communication, University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières
As the great scientific popularizer Daniel Jacobi remarked, writing for the general public or even just for non-specialists always generates debates and polemics. Is it possible to popularize knowledge without impoverishing, simplifying, distorting or even degrading it? Can we make learned discourse accessible? Or is it fated to remain outside the grasp of non-specialists? The Trudeau Foundation does not offer its scholars ready-made answers to these questions. Rather, it advocates productive dialogue between academics and decision-makers in the worlds of arts, business, public administration and the liberal professions, as well as the volunteer and community sectors. It allows scholars to discover that popularized discourse is neither autonomous nor independent from the learned discourse produced for academic peers. At all Foundation events, the scholar is in the centre of a heterogeneous field of discourse and opposing trends.
My four years as a Trudeau scholar gave me the opportunity to discuss my work with professor-researchers (fellows), scholars from various disciplines and mentors with a wealth of experience to share. My close relationship with my mentor gave me the chance to put greater planning into my projects. The annual travel stipend allowed me to study at the Université d'Avignon for one session, work on my thesis at the Louvre Museum, and present my research results in Québec, elsewhere in Canada and in several European countries. The Trudeau Foundation scholarship offered me an experience that went far beyond financial support. Besides supporting me through my doctoral degree, my experience as a Trudeau scholar changed my life.Trudeau Foundation Themes
Biography
Jason is assistant professor in social communication and cultural studies at the Department of literature and social communication at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières and associate professor at the Department of language, linguistic and translation at Laval University.- He has a bachelor's degree in social communications from the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières (2003) and a master's in public communication from Laval University (2006) and a doctorate in communication and education from Laval University (2011). He has received scholarships from the Trudeau Foundation, Laval University Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), Desjardins and Laval University arts faculty.
His research examines cultural audiences, cultural tourism, the sociology of arts and culture, the democratization of culture, the representation of art museums, attendance at museums, and culture and tourism marketing.
He has taught at the HEC Montréal, the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières (UQTR), and Laval University and through the Villes et villages d'art et de patrimoine (VVAP) program.
He has also worked as a research fellow at the Louvre museum and in various research groups. He is a board member of the Association pour la recherche qualitative (ARQ) and responsible for the organization's training programs. He is also a board member of the Musée québécois de culture populaire and a committee member for the preservation of the work of Ozias Leduc. Finally, he is a member of the consultative committee of the Canadian Museum for human rights.
Jason Luckerhoff has published several articles in peer-reviewed learned journals and made many presentations at colloquia in Quebec, elsewhere in Canada and internationally. In particular, he has published pieces in Leisure, Loisir et Société, Museum Management and Curatorship, Recherches Qualitatives, Communication and The Qualitative Report. He also co-directed several issues of Recherches Qualitatives and Loisir & Société.
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