Jamie Jelinski is an incoming Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool. He received his PhD in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University with support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). From 2022 to 2024, he was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. Prior to that, he held postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of History at Dalhousie University and the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Jelinski’s first book, Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada (2024), was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. He is currently working on a second book, tentatively titled Unseen Images: Crime, Access to Information, and Visual Culture, which is under contract with Wilfrid Laurier University Press. In addition, he is in the early stages of two projects: one involving the production and collection of images by Dr. Wilfrid Derome, the founder of Quebec’s forensic crime laboratory, and another focused on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s creation of facial composites from the 1950s onward.