Rae St. Clair BRIDGMAN
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Rae St. Clair Bridgman is a Professor in the Department of City Planning, at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada). Her ethnographic studies of chronic homelessness among women and men in Canada, youth homelessness, and innovative housing models for rehousing the homeless, as well as her research on child-friendly cities, have been published internationally. Her current research explores literary tourism around children's books. |
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Rae St. Clair Bridgman is the author of StreetCities: Rehousing the Homeless (University of Toronto Press, 2006), Safe Haven: The Story of a Shelter for Homeless Women (University of Toronto Press, 2003), co-author of Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness (Berghahn Books, 1999), and co-editor of Feminist Fields: Ethnographic Insights (University of Toronto Press, 1999). She has been the recipient of a number of major research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). In parallel with her scholarly research, she is a practicing visual artist with many arts grants and exhibitions to her name, and the author and illustrator of fantasy books for children, including Kingdom of Trolls (2011), The Serpent’s Spell (2006), Amber Ambrosia (2007) and Fish & Sphinx (2008). Along with her husband (architect Wins Bridgman), she is a co-director of BridgmanCollaborative Architecture—a Winnipeg architectural and planning firm. The firm's Winnipeg projects have included the award-winning Dalnavert Visitors' Museum, Assiniboine Park Duck Pond Shelter, The Path of Full Citizenship accessibility ramp for the Manitoba Legislative Building, Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre, among many other projects. |
