Learn from exceptional faculty with backgrounds in both Western and Indigenous knowledge, and experience cross-cultural learning. Learn how Indigenous peoples in Canada and around the world are shaping our globe through a creative blend of Indigenous and Western knowledge. You will study the historical and contemporary interactions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous societies, and the cultural foundations of Indigenous life in areas such as performance, literature, politics, ecology, and governance.
Learn from exceptional faculty with backgrounds in both Western and Indigenous knowledge, and experience cross-cultural learning. Learn how Indigenous peoples in Canada and around the world are shaping our globe through a creative blend of Indigenous and Western knowledge. You will study the historical and contemporary interactions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous societies, and the cultural foundations of Indigenous life in areas such as performance, literature, politics, ecology, and governance.
Full-Time Faculty
David Newhouse (Onondaga)
Professor and Chair of Indigenous Studies
B.Sc., M.B.A. (Western)
Enwayaang Building 301 ext. 7497, dnewhouse@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Aboriginal modernity; My interests are focused upon the emergence of modern aboriginal society, the key debates and ideas animating individuals and collectivities within it and the shape and nature of ‘governance’ as the key institutional idea that give expression to aboriginal modernity.
Classes: INDG 1000Y; INDG 3201H; ADMN-INDG 4500H; ADMN 4100Y; INDG 6603H
Lynne Davis
Associate Professor
B.A. (Queen’s), M.A. (Sussex), M.A. (Alberta), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Enwayaang Building 313 ext. 7241, lydavis@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Lynne’s areas of specialization are Aboriginal community development, building sustainable communities, social change, international development, popular education, and Aboriginal alliances with social movements.
Classes: INDG-IDST 3050Y; INDG 4050H; INDG 4051H; INDG 3813Y; INDG 6601Y
Mark Dockstator (Oneida)
Associate Professor
B.Sc. (Waterloo), LLB (York), DJur (York); mdockstator@trentu.ca
Research Interests: The practical application of Indigenous knowledge to the contemporary situation of Indigenous Peoples.
Classes: INDG 4850Y; INDG 3401H; INDG 3402H; INDG 4201H; INDG 4202H; INDG-ADMN 4500H
Chris Furgal
Associate Professor
B.Sc. (Western), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Waterloo)
Enwayaang Building 305 ext. 7953, chrisfurgal@trentu.ca
Research Interests: My research interests are in the fields of environmental health risk assessment, management and communication in cooperation with Indigenous populations. A particular focus of the work is on communities living in rapidly changing natural environments such as coastal and Arctic ecosystems.
Classes: INDG-ERST 3730Y; 4740Y; INDG 6701H
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Michele Lacombe
Associate Professor
B.A. (McGill), M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Enwayaang Building 309 ext. 7845, mlacombe@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Indigenous women’s voices include many kinds of storytelling, from oral and written versions of family and community history to autobiography, life-writing, poetry, theatre and performance, fiction, and essays. I am interested in understanding relationships to place and nation as articulated in the arts.
Classes: INDG-CUST 2300Y; INDG 3480Y; WMST 3521H; 3520Y
Dan Longboat
Associate Professor and Director, Indigenous Environmental Studies
B.A. (Trent), M.E.S., Ph.D. (York)
Enwayaang Building 302 ext. 7844, ies@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences
Classes: INDG-ERST 2601Y; INDG-ERST 3634H; INDG-ERST 4730Y
Don McCaskill
Professor
B.A. (Winnipeg), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (York)
Enwayaang Building 311 ext. 7820, dmccaskill@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Aboriginal urbanization, Indigenous education, community development, justice and corrections, Aboriginal-mainstream Canadian relations, culture and identity, globalization and social change, Indigenous knowledge and international Indigenous peoples.
Classes: INDG 3202H; INDG 3813Y; 6701Y; 6720H
Marrie Mumford (Métis)
Associate Professor
B.A. (Alberta), M.F.A. (Brandeis)
Enwayaang Building 101.7 ext. 7310, marriemumford@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Indigenous theatre, arts and dance
Class: INDG 2110Y
Paula Sherman
Director, Indigenous Studies Ph.D. program
paulasherman@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Indigenous Histories, Indigenous Women, Indigenous relationships within the Natural World, Colonialism and Resistance, Indigenous Performance.
Skahendowaneh Swamp (Mohawk)
Senior Lecturer and Chair of Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Studies
Wolf Clan Faithkeeper, B.A. (McMaster)
Enwayaang Building 302 ext. 7922, skahendowanehswamp@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Iroquoian cultural and language
Classes: INDG 2100Y; INDG 4100Y; INDG 6600Y
