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Professor

Martha Langford
Born
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Academic background
Education Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
PhD., McGill University
Thesis Suspended conversations, private photographic albums in the public collection of the McCord Museum of Canadian History (1997)