Indigenous Issues

Sheryl Lightfoot

Associate Professor

Canada Research Chair, Global Indigenous Rights and Politics

First Nations, international relations, foreign affairs, global affairs, Indigenous politics

Dr. Coll Thrush, PhD

Dr. Coll Thrush, PhD

Professor

US Indigenous-settler relations

Glen Coulthard

Assistant Professor, First Nations Studies Program and Political Science

First Nations politics – national, political theory

Gunnar Hansson

Associate Professor

Phonetics (speech sounds), phonology (sound patterns, sound systems), language change, linguistic relationships (language families), reconstruction of proto-languages, language contact, Scandinavian languages (esp. Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish), Athabaskan (Dene) languages, Saami (Lapp) languages, Russian

Jan Hare

Associate Professor

Aboriginal youth mobility, Aboriginal family and community perspectives on early literacy, literature, identity construction and urban Aboriginal youth

Lisa Nathan, PhD, MLIS

Lisa Nathan, PhD, MLIS

Associate Professor

climate, information ethics, Indigenous information, libraries, sustainability, library, human-computer interaction, climate adaptation

Doris Baltruschat, PhD

Author, Educator

Media/digital literacy, stereoscopic (3D), virtual reality and social media, independent film, digital citizenship and media democracy, media ecologies, transmedia storytelling, international co-productions and TV formats, film/TV audience reception, aboriginal media/arctic cinema, social movements, social networks, social networking

Martin Guhn, PhD

Assistant Professor

Wellbeing of children and youth, social determinants of developmental health, social and cultural community and neighborhood effects on child development, music and emotion

Rob Tierney, PhD

Professor

Global epistemologies and cross-cultural research in education and literacy, social science research, diversity, social justice, equity, indigenous matters, digital literacies, nature of literacy, meaning making, reading comprehension, reading-writing relationships, teaching, learning, educational assessment, teacher education

Dr. Linc Kesler, PhD

Dr. Linc Kesler, PhD

Associate Professor

Indigenous identity, Indian residential schools, university Indigenous strategy, effects of communications technology, critical theory, 16th and 17th English literature, Indigenous literature, literature of US minorities,

Vanessa Brcic

Clinical Instructor

Primary care, family medicine, poverty, social determinants of health, health inequities, health care of marginalized populations, private vs. public health care debate, health care reform

Dr. Farah Shroff, BSc, MEd (Primary Health Care), PhD

Dr. Farah Shroff, BSc, MEd (Primary Health Care), PhD

Public Health Researcher and Educator

public health, social equity, women’s health, global politics, social determinants of health, anti-racism, anti-imperialism, integrative health, holistic health practices, yoga, meditation, indigenous systems of health, health policy,

Mark Turin, PhD

Mark Turin, PhD

Associate Professor

Himalaya, Nepal, First Nations, indigenous, anthropology, linguistics, endangered languages, digital, archives, museums, Bhutan, India, Tibet, technology

Joleen Timko, PhD

Joleen Timko, PhD

Research Associate

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), forests, livelihoods, Indigenous people, Africa, community engagement, conservation social sciences

Patricia Dawn Mills, PhD Law

Patricia Dawn Mills, PhD Law

Adjunct Professor

Canadian First Nation rights and titles as it relates to Federal and Provincial Resource management, mining law, equity and the sustainability of a finite, location-specific resource

Natalie Clark, PhD

Instructor

Trauma, child and youth mental health, Indigenous health, girls health

Prof. Efrat Arbel

Prof. Efrat Arbel

Associate Professor

Constitutional law, migration law, aboriginal law, prison law and policy, tort law, critical and legal theory

Daniel Justice, PhD

Daniel Justice, PhD

Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture

Indigenous literature, Indigenous Studies, speculative fiction, animal studies, raccoons, badgers

Prof. Debra Parkes, BA, LLB, LLM

Prof. Debra Parkes, BA, LLB, LLM

Professor

Chair in Feminist Legal Studies

criminal law, constitutional law, sentencing, incarceration, critical prison studies, feminist legal studies, social justice, gender and law,

Jennifer Kramer, PhD

Jennifer Kramer, PhD

Associate Professor

First Nations of the Northwest Coast, visual culture, art market economies, identity production, representation, repatriation, cultural property, aboriginal cultural tourism, collaborative and critical museology