ABOUT
The Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History (CUJAH) is a student-run association that aims to showcase the talents of Concordia University’s undergraduate Art History and Fine Arts students by means of an annual journal publication and conference event.
CUJAH strives to provide students with academic and professional opportunities through workshops, events, and online resources. CUJAH is composed of an executive team, an editorial team, and a design team and is assisted by faculty members in the Department of Art History.
We acknowledge that Concordia University is located on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters we now call Montreal. Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal) is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations. Today, it is home to a diverse population of Indigenous and other peoples. We respect the continued connections with the past, present and future in our ongoing relationships with Indigenous and other peoples within the Montreal community.
Executive Team ↴
Sam Tréville
Editor-In-Chief
Sam Tréville (she/her), a fourth-year Art History student undergoing her final year of studies, has notably centred her interests and studies around the importance of community engagement in creative fields. Having served as CUJAH’s Managing Editor for its VOL. XXI and now having the chance to lead the journal in its twenty-second edition, she hopes to continue to tie links between Art History students, Concordia’s Fine Arts department and the larger local Montréal artist community. This mission has mainly been realized through Sam’s initiation of CUADRO, a micropublication aimed at uplifting the local student-led art scene in Montréal. Besides these projects, her academic interests have revolved around 19th and 20th-century French interior design within the scope of gender and sexuality.
Abby Brock
Financial Director
Abby Brock (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator in their final year of study in the Studio Arts and Art History program. Their practice revolves around the divine, mythical, overlooked and underappreciated, examined through a feminist lens. They are also the co-founder of [UN]PROMPTU, an artist collective dedicated to supporting undergraduate artists.
Managing Editor
Tess Larsen
Tess Larsen (she/they) is a fourth-year student at Concordia University. Her art historical practice interrogates the intersections of gender and race within art and the construction of artisthood. They are passionate about collective memory and identity, new materialism, and the redemptive potentials of connection and community.
Yasmeen Alissa
Outreach Director
Yasmeen Alissa (she/her) is a fourth-year Studio Arts BFA student who works with mixed-media painting, writing, and audiovisual experimentations. Her research explores themes of escapism. She never leaves home without her camera and notebook. Yasmeen also plays the violin and can often be found near the waterfront.
Claire Lamarre-Niemi
Creative Director
Claire Lamarre-Niemi (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and book, graphic and industrial designer from Montreal. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bootlegger Magazine, an independent art magazine showcasing underground, underrepresented and emerging young artists from Montreal. With a focus on referentiality and paradoxes, her work seeks to not take itself too seriously, merging the fun, the uncanny, and the silly.
Emitees Tajdari
Co-Events & Conference Director
Emitees Tajdari (she/her) is an undergraduate student in Art History at Concordia University, interested in visual culture, historiography, and the politics of representation. She explores how art intersects with identity, power, and colonial legacies. Her research focuses on the impact of Orientalism on Muslim representation and the role of art in reclaiming marginalized narratives. Beyond academia, she is drawn to curatorial work and collaborative projects that bridge theory and practice, positioning art as a tool for resistance, cultural preservation, and collective memory.
Leni Bonjour-Liss (she/her) is in her final year of her undergraduate degree at Concordia University. She is majoring in communication studies with a minor in art history. Originally from Toronto, she comes from a visual art and dance background, and is passionate about bringing people together through the arts. She is looking forward to building community and ideas through her role as Conference + Events Co-Director!
Leni Bonjour-Liss
Co-Events & Conference Director
BOARD MEMBERS
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