Siobhan Angus is an associate professor of media studies at Carleton University, with cross-appointments in Art and Architectural History and the Institute of Political Economy. Prior to joining Carleton, Angus was the Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University.
Her book, Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography (Duke University Press, 2024) traces a mineral history of photography, arguing that the medium has always been materially and metaphorically bound to mining.
Camera Geologica was a finalist for the 2025 College Art Association Charles Rufus Morey Book Award and received both the 2024 Photography Network Book Prize and the 2025 UAAC-AAUC Book Prize.
She currently working on a co-authored book with Jennifer Raab which argues that fertilizer offers a critical lens for understanding how settler colonialism in the Americas was rooted in projects to control, transform, and optimize soil. Research from this project has been published in October.
She is the Principal Investigator of a SSHRC Insight Grant, Cultivating Empire, which examines the relationship between the chemicalization of agriculture, visual culture, and settler-colonial land relations in the Americas during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Her research and teaching has been recognized with the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal (2020), the Faculty of Public and Global Affairs Research Award (2025), and Carleton University’s New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award (2026).
She serves on the Board of Directors of the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre and on the steering committee of Carleton University’s Climate Commons.
Her research has been supported by the American Philosophical Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada, the Science History Institute, the Paul Mellon Centre, and the Yale Center for British Art.
At the heart of her research program lies an intellectual and political commitment to environmental, economic, and social justice.
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