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Biographical note
Sarah Sheehan, Ph.D., is a writer interested in adaptive reuse, placemaking, and our built environment. Her writing has appeared in Canadian and international media including the CBC, Ground, and the TLS. She is also the lead editor of two scholarly books. In 2022, she was nominated for the ACO Heritage Awards A.K. Sculthorpe Award for Advocacy for her work on St. Giles church, while her project Woodlands Park: Ghost Landscape, a placemaking project funded by the City of Hamilton with a grant from the Patrick J. McNally Charitable Foundation, won a municipal award. Other advocacy work includes co-chairing Doors Open Hamilton 2022 and serving as founding Chair of Built Environment Hamilton. She is currently writing a book about church reuse.