Natalia Lebedinskaia is a second-year MA student in Art History at Concordia University. Her research focuses on vernacular photographs, and their shifting meaning in public collections. In her thesis, in which she discusses the Makortoff Family collection from the Doukhobor community in British Columbia, she hopes to bring forth the role of personal agency in negotiating between tradition and assimilation. Natalia’s wider interests include ethics of display and curatorial responsibility, as they relate to nostalgia, memory, and representation of personal experience. Her academic research is funded by the SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship and the Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture.