Sylvie Frigon (Contributor)
Sylvie Frigon holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is professor of the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa where she teaches since 1993. She is Vice-Dean of Graduate Studies at the Faculty of Social Science. She was Joint Chair of the Women's Studies at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University from 2014-2016 and was Visiting Fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK in 2014 where she currently is Senior Research Associate. She has published several scientific articles, chapters and books. Her book on dance, the body and imprisonment with Claire Jenny, choreographer and director of the Parisian dance company " Point Virgule " was published in 2009. Professor Frigon collaborated with the AAOF (Association des auteures et auteurs de l'Ontario français) as artistic director of a writing project in prison. A book from these writing workshops has been published in 2014. She published her 3rd novel in 2016 funded by the Ontario Arts Council, C’est où chez nous? which was finalist for the Prix Espiègle 2017. In 2018 she was consultant for the Royal New Zealand Ballet and this partnership will continue. She is working on a new dance project in prison with men with Paris-based choreographer, Claire Jenny. Her latest publication is an edited book entitled Dance, Confinement and Resilient Bodies (UOP) in 2019.
Dominique Robert (Contributor)
Dominique Robert is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her current research interests include scientific and technological controversies as well as the biographies of scientific objects in behavior genetics and neurosciences.
