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Cheryl Thompson
Cheryl Thompson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Industries, Faculty of Communication & Design, Ryerson University. She held a Banting Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2016–18) at the University of Toronto and the University of Toronto-Mississauga in the Department of English and Drama. Her project, “Visualizing Blackface Minstrelsy in Canada: Seeing Race, Negotiating Identities, 1890–1959,” aimed to elucidate the system of meaning in blackface minstrelsy’s theatrical playbills, portraits, photographs, illustrations, and visual ephemera. Her forthcoming book, Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture, will be published with Wilfrid Laurier Press in 2019. It represents one of the first in-depth examinations of not only black beauty culture in Canada but also the transnational, global flow of products, beauty imagery, and services. Thompson has published articles in the Journal of Canadian Studies, the Canadian Journal of History, and Feminist Media Studies.