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Professor
Martha Langford
Born (1953-12-18) December 18, 1953 (age 70)
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)