For a number of years Caterina Pizanias has been teaching special topics interdisciplinary courses that focus on art in general, and art as a means to bring life to notions of social progress and change in areas such as healing practices, architecture, and private and public life going back to Greek prehistory to classical times and beyond.

Since 2007 she has taught an annual course on Crete By the Way of the Labyrinth: Minoans as Architects, Engineers and Merchants for the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada.  In collaboration with Dr. Henderickus Stam she has taught  a Psychology course in Greece for the University of Calgary entitled Psychology 503: Healing Bodies and Minds: A Journey to Ancient Greece and Back, University of Calgary.  And for the Athens Economic and Business University in Greece she taught an Introductory Seminar on Arts Management for the MBA Programme

The Canada Council: Travel Grant, individual, for “passages/περάσματα”, an exhibition in two parts: a solo exhibition of works by Allyson Glenn, at The Cultural Foundation of Tinos, Tinos, Greece.  And at the Vorres Museum, Athens, Greece, Summer 2019.

The University of Saskatchewan-International Relations: Writing Grant for Allyson Glenn’s exhibition “passages/περάσματα”, Summer 2019.

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts: Travel Grant, Individual, for “Uses for King Kong: An Imaginary Book,” Side-way Stoa, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, December 10, 2018 to February 23, 2019.

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts: Cultural Relations Grant, Individual, for “Open Horizons”, Cultural Foundation of Tinos, Tinos island, Greece, August 1 to 20, 2017, an exhibition celebrating Canada’s 150th

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts: Cultural Relations Grant for “The Lure of the Local: Women Artists in the Canadian Landscape”, November 6, 2013 to January 11, 2014, Vorres Museum, Athens, Greece.

Foreign Affairs Canada: Cultural Relations Fund Grant Programme for the “Migrations in the Third Dimension: Tradition and Innovation in Canada and the Cyclades” 2004 Olympics celebration exhibit on Tinos, Greece, 2004.

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts: Visual Arts Project Assistance Grant, for the “Migrations in the Third Dimension: Tradition and Innovation in Canada and the Cyclades” exhibit on Tinos, Greece, 2004.

The Calgary Institute for the Humanities – Visiting Research Fellow, Spring-Summer, 1997

Banff Centre for the Arts – Fall Thematic Residency, 1996

The Calgary Institute for the Humanities – Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1992-¬1993

Association for Canadian Studies, Regional Development Programme Award, 1991-¬1992

Books and Anthologies

“Manifesta 2006: When Art met Politics,” chapter in the book titled, Sustainability, a new frontier for the arts and cultures. Edited by Sacha Kagan and Volker Kirchberg, Leuphana, VAS, Germany, 2008. 324-350.

“Habitus Revisited: Notes and Queries from the Field,” in Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture, edited by Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman. Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2000: 145-164.

“Modern Greek Visual Art and Artists,” in Greece in Modern Times: An Annotated Bibliography of Works Published in English in 22 Academic Disciplines During the Twentieth Century, edited by Dr. Stratos Constantinidis. Scarecrow Press Inc. 2000: 37-60.

“Considering the Prospect(s) of On-line Fields of (Techno) Cultural Production,” in Pierre Bourdieu: Language, Culture and Education – Theory into Practice. Edited by Michael Grenfell and Michael Kelly. Berne: Peter Lang A.G., European Academic Publishers, 1999: 121-133.

“Habitus: From the Inside Out and the Outside In,” in The Body and Psychology, edited by Henderikus J. Stam. London: Sage Publications, Chapter 8. 1998: 141-159.

“The View from Nowhere: Digitalization, Body Art, and the Symbolic Economies of Cyberspace.” Proceedings: The Sixth Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology, Centre for Arts and Technology, New London, Connecticut: Connecticut College. 1997: 140-155.

“Who Counts and Who is Counting—the Artworld, the Market and Women’s Art,” in Women and Art: Empowering Narratives, edited by Regine Boucar. Washington, D.C: The World Bank Office on Women’s Issues: 1996: 2-12.

Refereed Journals

Review of Kiss & Tell’s November 8, 1997 Vancouver performance “That Long Distance Feeling,” for the Canadian Theatre Review. Volume 25, Summer 1998: 93-95.

“Graph(t)ing the Visual: Modern Greek Studies in the Diaspora,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Volume 15, 1997: 268-273.

“Habitus: From the Inside Out and the Outside In,” Theory and Psychology Journal, Volume 6, No. 4, 1996: 649-667.

“Making the Grade: Multiculturalism and the Arts in Canada,” Blurring Genres Series, Volume 1, No. 5, 1994: 3-21.

“Reviewing Modernist Painting and Criticism in the Canadian Prairies: A Case Study from Edmonton,” International Journal of Canadian Studies, Volume VIII, Winter 1993: 139-169.

“Centering on Changing Communities: Multiculturalism as Meaning and Message,” Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, Volume 24, #3, 1992: 87-98.

“Making Art in the ‘Global Village,’” in Global Restructuring: Canada in the 1990’s, Canadian Issues Volume 24, 1992: 109-128.

“Of Earth and Steel: Taming the Prairie in Canada,” in Practicing the Arts in Canada, Canadian Issues, Volume 11, 1989: 113-126.

Arts Journals/Magazines

“Three Things I know About Magic,” a review of Blair Brennan’s survey exhibition at dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton. Prairie Seen Arts Magazine, December 6, 2014. http://www.prairieseen.com/prairieseen-notes/

“Dissident Acts-Spirit and Matter,” Spring 2004 Issue of Artichoke-Writings About the Visual Arts, Volume 16 # 3, 38-41.

“Edmonton 2000: The Public and Private Face of Steel Sculpture,” Summer 2000 Issue of Artichoke – Writings About the Visual Arts, Volume 12, 38-40.

Priceless Paintings: All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go,” Artichoke – Writings About the Visual Arts, Volume 10, #3, 1999: 23-25.

“Ceci n’est pas un’ archive,” FUSE, Volume 21, #2, 1998: 38-40.

“A ‘Different’ Angelus Novus,” Artopos Electronic Journal: http://www.artopos.org.

“TRANSlocal: A Metaphor for Space,” Artopos Electronic Journal: http://www. artopos.org
“imagining communities (bojagi),” Jin-me Yoon. C magazine, Volume 51, October 1996: 50.

“Feminist Art: Issues and Agendas” Part II, Artichoke – Writings About the Visual Arts, Volume 6, #2, 1994: 16-31.

“Feminist Art: Issues and Agendas” Part I, Artichoke – Writings About the Visual Arts, Volume 6, #1, 1994: 40-43.

“Testimonial for Brennan,” SNAP Newsletter, December 1993: 2-9.