Experts in Indigenous
Jacqueline Romanow
Chair
Department:
Indigenous Studies
Areas of Expertise:
- Indigenous Governance
- indigenous Issues
- Indigenous Politics
Mark Ruml
Associate Professor
Department:
Religion and Culture
Areas of Expertise:
- Indigenous (especially Dakota and Anishishinaabe in Manitoba)
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous History
- Indigenous Spirituality
- Indigenous Worldview
Julie Nagam
Associate Professor
Department:
History
Areas of Expertise:
- Digital and New Media
- Indigenous and Cultural Theory
- Indigenous Visual Culture
- Place and Space
Chantal Fiola
Associate Professor
Department:
Urban and Inner-City Studies
Areas of Expertise:
- Colonization and Decolonization
- Indigenous Community-Centred Methodologies
- Indigenous Genders, Sexualities, and Feminisms
- Indigenous Resurgence and Sovereignty
- Métis (And Selected First Nation) Identity, Culture, Spirituality, History, and Urbanity
Julie Pelletier
Associate Professor
Department:
Indigenous Studies
Areas of Expertise:
- American Indian Casinos
- American Indian cultures particularly Woodland/Great Lakes
- American Indian Policy
- Decolonized/Indigenized Education
- Indigenous Identity
- Indigenous Representation
Laura Forsythe
Lecturer
Department:
Faculty of Education
Areas of Expertise:
- All Things Metis
- Education
- Indigenous Education
- Rooster Town
Mark Meuwese
Professor
Department:
History
Areas of Expertise:
- American Revolution
- Environmental History
- European Empires before 1800
- History of Genocides, Massacres, Ethnic Cleansing
- History of the Dutch Empire
- Indigenous History of South America
- Relations between European Colonizers and Indigenous Peoples
Ryan Eyford
Associate Professor
Department:
History
Areas of Expertise:
- History of Canada
- History of Western Canada
- History of Manitoba
- Icelandic Immigration to North America
- Indigenous-Settler Relations
Sharanpal Ruprai
Assistant Professor
Department:
Women's and Gender Studies
Areas of Expertise:
- Canadian South Asian Literature
- Cultural Studies
- Critical Race Feminism
- Indigenous Feminist Theory
- Religion:Sikhism
- Women's and Gender Studies
Shannon Vickers
Professor
Department:
Theatre and Film
Areas of Expertise:
- Dialect/Accent Coaching for Theatre
- Dialect Training Resource Creation (Indigenous Actors)
- Presentation Skills
- Public Speaking
- Vocal Health
- Voice use
Mary LeMaître
Instructor
Department:
Modern Languages and Literatures
Areas of Expertise:
- Analysis of Social Discourse
- Colonial Discourse (stereotypes about Indigenous Canadians: what they are are where they come from, how they affect our relationship, and how we can change them)
- French Language
- Second Language Learning
- The Indian Act as opposed to the treaties and the UNDRIP
Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land
Assistant Professor
Department:
Criminal Justice
Areas of Expertise:
- Carceral Abolition Theory and Practice
- Community-based Crime Prevention Programming
- Community Policing
- Manitoba Politics
- Prison and Police Expansion
- Settler Colonialism
- Scholar Activism
- Social Democratic Crime Policy
Mavis Reimer
Professor
Department:
English and Graduate Studies
Areas of Expertise:
- Graduate studies
- Literary and cultural texts
- Young people
Rawia Azzahrawi
Instructor
Department:
Religion and Culture
Areas of Expertise:
- Arabic Language
- Bilingual Education
- Decolonization in Education
- Second Language Education
- Teaching English as a Second Language
- Translanguaging
Shauna MacKinnon
Professor
Department:
Urban and Inner City Studies
Areas of Expertise:
- Community Based Participatory Research
- Policy Advocacy
- Poverty and Inequality
- Public Policy
- Social Policy