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
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
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
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
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
Associate Professor
Himalaya, Nepal, First Nations, indigenous, anthropology, linguistics, endangered languages, digital, archives, museums, Bhutan, India, Tibet, technology
Joleen Timko, PhD
Research Associate
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), forests, livelihoods, Indigenous people, Africa, community engagement, conservation social sciences
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
Associate Professor
Constitutional law, migration law, aboriginal law, prison law and policy, tort law, critical and legal theory
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
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
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