Dr Jamie Jelinski is an incoming Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool. He earned his PhD in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University and has held postdoctoral fellowships at McGill University, Dalhousie University, and the University of Toronto. Jelinski’s first book, Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada, was published in 2024 by McGill-Queen’s University Press. He is currently writing a second book, under contact with Wilfrid Laurier University Press, provisionally titled Unseen Images: Crime, Visual Culture, and Access to Information in Canada. He is also conducting research for two major projects: one examining the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s production of facial composites from the 1950s onward, and the other exploring the use of visual culture at Quebec’s forensic crime laboratory in the early twentieth century.