Energy Stories Lab members receive awards at PHS Annual Meeting

At this year’s meeting of the Petroleum History Society (PHS), Energy Stories Lab members were honoured with two awards.

Lab alumna Zahra Jafarzadeh won the 2024 Multimedia Award for her MFA thesis, Animating Histories: Storytelling Animation as a Medium to Reveal Women’s Narratives about Canadian Energy Development in the mid-20th century. As part of her thesis, as well as the Energy Stories Lab’s SkidShack AR app, Zahra produced numerous animations to bring women’s energy stories from Leduc, AB to life. To see some of Zahra’s animations for this MFA project, please click here.

Lab co-directors Drs. Jean-René Leblanc, Sabrina Perić and Rebecca Dolgoy, as well as Canadian Energy Museum Collections Manager Danielle Lane, were awarded the PHS’s 2024 Preservation Award for their series of articles on the Canadian Energy Museum for the Network in Canadian History and Environment. To read these articles, please click on the links below:

1) “Energy History through the Eyes of a Regional Museum: The Likely Demise of the Canadian Energy Museum”

2) “Finding Women in Alberta’s Energy History”

3) “Scattered and Divided: The Uncertain Future of the Canadian Energy Museum’s Artifacts and Stories”

4) “The Work of their Hands: The Association of Oil Wives Clubs”

5) “The Junk Pile of History: A Final Look at the Canadian Energy Museum’s Object Garden”