Dr. Reilley Bishop-Stall is a settler Canadian art historian whose research is centered on Indigenous and settler representational histories, contemporary art and visual culture with a specific focus lens-based media, archival practice and ethics, anticolonial and activist art. Dr. Bishop-Stall received her PhD from Ď㽶ĘÓƵ and was awarded the university’s Arts Insights Dissertation Award for the year’s most outstanding dissertation in the Humanities. Her work has been published in a number of books and peer-reviewed journals including Photography & Culture, Art Journal Open, and The Journal of Art Theory and Practice. Before joining the faculty at McGill, Dr. Bishop-Stall held a Horizon Postdoctoral fellowship with the Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership: The Pilimmaksarniq/Pijariuqsarniq Project, and a Limited Term Appointment in the Histories of Photography at Concordia University.
Selected publications:
[Forthcoming] “Past Projections: Revenants, Resilience and Archival Intervention in Meryl McMaster’s Ancestral.” “The Women, They Hold the Ground”: Indigenous Women’s Digital Media in North America. Eds. Kaarmen Crey and Joanna Hearne. University of Minnesota Press. 2025.
“Smile; Social Issues; Swing:” Bias and Contradiction in Evolving Archival Descriptions of Indigenous Subjects.” Facing Black Star. Eds. Thierry Gervais and Vincent Lavoie. Toronto: MIT Press/Ryerson Image Centre. Fall, 2023.
“An Inuit Approach to Archival Work.” Co-authored with Heather Campbell. The Routledge Companion of Indigenous Art Histories in Canada and the United States. Eds. Heather Igloliorte and Carla Taunton. Routledge. Fall, 2023.