CICADA Co-Investigators
| Name | Institution | Discipline | Research Focus | Selected Publications |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirsten Anker | McGill University | Law | Property law, aboriginal peoples and the law, legal theory, law and social science, law and language, alternative dispute resolution. | |
| Allyssa Bader | McGill University | Anthropology | Archaeological sciences: paleogenomics, bioarchaeology, and stable isotope analysis | Fleskes RE, Bader AC, Tsosie KS, Wagner JK, Claw KG, Garrison NA. 2022. Ethical guidance in human paleogenomics: New and ongoing perspectives. Ann Rev Genomics Hum Genet 23:627-652. |
| Véronique BussiÚres | SNAP Québec | Geography, Urban Planning and Environment | Biocultural conservation; marine protected areas | |
| Pierre Beaucage | Université de Montréal | Anthropology | Impacts of Canadian mining in Canada and in Latin America, resistance movements. | |
SĂ©bastien Caquard | Concordia University | Geography, Planning and Environment | Mapping narratives, Indigenous cartography, oral history, geoweb, environment, GIS, Atlascine. | McGurk, Thomas J. and SĂ©bastien Caquard. 2020. âTo what extent online mapping can be decolonial? A journey throughout Indigenous cartography in Canada,” The Canadian Geographer: 1â16. Caquard, SĂ©bastien, Annita Lucchesi, Thomas Mcgurk, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert and Leah Temper. 2019. âUsing maps as a weapon to resist extractive industries on Indigenous territories.â The Conversation, April 22, 2019. |
| Vincent Collette | Université du Québec à Chicoutimi | Linguistics | Indigenous languages of Canada: Plains Cree, Moose Cree, and East Cree (Algonquian), as well as Nakoda and Dakota (Siouan) | Animate Intransitive Consonant Stems in North East Cree. Papers of the 53rd Algonquian Conference, 2023 |
| Treena Wasonti:io Delormier | McGill University | Nutrition and Environment | Food, nutrition and health of Indigenous peoples. | |
| Sabrina Doyon | UniversitĂ© Laval | Anthropology | Social and cultural determinants of environmental protection, sustainable development, globalization, social movements, political ecology, governance and management, socialism, post-socialism, maritimes region, Latin America, Cuba, Mexico. | Doyon, Sabrina, and Ismael Vaccaro, eds. 2019. “Repenser la conservation environnementale,” Anthropologie et sociĂ©tĂ©s 43(3), special issue. |
Benoit Ăthier  | UniversitĂ© du QuĂ©bec en Abitibi-TĂ©miscamingue (UQAT) | Indigenous Studies | Indigenous territorial issues, customary rights, indigenous knowledge related to resource management, legal pluralism and indigenous/non-indigenous relations. | Ăthier, Benoit. 2020. « Analyzing Entangled Territorialities and Indigenous Use of Maps: Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok (QuĂ©bec, Canada) Dynamics of Territorial Negotiations, Frictions and Creativity », The Canadian Geographer, Thematic Issues: Indigenous Spatial Capital: Turning Places, Knowledge and Practices into Mapping Processes, C. Desbiens, I. Hirt and B. Collignon (eds.). Ăthier, Benoit, GĂ©rald Ottawa et Christian Coocoo. 2020. « Redefining the Lexicon of Power, Envisionning Indigenous Future : The Atikamekw Nehirowisiw Nation and Comprehensive Land Claims Negotiations », Anthropologica, special issue « On Living Together with the Land », C. Westman et S. Poirier (dirs.). |
Nicole Fenton | Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) | Forestry | Biodiversity and biocomplexity, biogeography, terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, ecological and ecophysiological processes, forestry, bryology. | |
| Dylan Fraser | Concordia University | Biology | How ecology, evolution and genetics interact to generate and sustain biodiversity, how human activities alter this diversity, and how this collective knowledge can be applied towards more effective biodiversity conservation in a variety of contexts | |
| John G. Galaty | McGill University | Anthropology | Pastoralism, rangeland development, wildlife and community conservation, property and land tenure, legal anthropology, social conflict and violence, identity, ritual, eastern Africa. Project: Food security, Kenya | |
| Ingrid Hall | Université de Montréal | Anthropology | Biodiversity and biocomplexity, natural resources, systems of representation, protected areas, political socialization, Peru. | |
| Martin Hébert | Université Laval | Anthropology | Indigenous peoples, socio-economic conditions, economic and political integration, social movements, social justice, social organization and political systems, economic production, natural resources, auto-development. Project: Impacts of Violence, Chile and Mexico | |
| Peter Johansen | McGill University | Anthropology | Archeology, Neolithic and Iron Age settlements and practices, First Nationâs directed archaeological research and heritage management, Canada, South India | |
| Laurent JérÎme | Université du Québec à Montréal | Département de sciences des religions | Anthropology of religion, Indigenous art and visual culture, co-construction of knowledge, Indigenous religious traditions | |
| Eduardo Kohn | McGill University | Anthropology | Ecological anthropology, human-animal relations, paralinguistic anthropology, semiotics, ecological trends, Latin America, Amazonia, Quichua. | |
| Nicolas Kosoy | McGill University | Natural Resource Sciences | Ecological economics, economic history, conservation, socioeconomics of climate change, environmental resource management, Latin America, Asia. | |
| Brian Leung | McGill University | Biology | Conservation, Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour | |
Claudia Mitchell | McGill University | Integrated Studies in Education | Gender, body and dress, HIV/AIDS, sexual health, social contexts, teacher education, youth, Quebec, Southern Africa. | Mitchell, Claudia and Relebohile Moletsane. 2018. Disrupting Shameful Legacies. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill | Sense. |
Monica Mulrennan | Concordia University | Geography, Planning, and Environment | Indigenous peoples use and management of coastal and marine environments, local ecological knowledge, community-based management, protected area development, human adaptations to environmental change, Crees of subarctic Quebec. Project: Protected Areas, Eeyou-Istchee | Mulrennan, Monica E., Colin H. Scott and Katherine Scott, eds. 2019. Caring for Eeyou Itschee: Protected Area Creation on Wemindji Cree Territory. Vancouver: UBC Press. Mulrennan, Monica E. and VĂ©ronique BussiĂšres. 2018. Social-Ecological Resilience in Indigenous Coastal Edge Contexts. Ecology and Society, 23(3): 18. |
Sylvie Poirier | UniversitĂ© Laval | Anthropology | Indigenous knowledge and transmission, indigenous territorialities, land claims, cosmology, relational ontology, theories of culture, ontological anthropology, anthropology of dreams and dreaming, decolonization of research, Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok, Australian Aborigines (Western desert). Project: Post-Colonial Indigenous Territorialities | Poirier, Sylvie, and Clinton Westman, eds. 2020. “Living Together with the Land: Reaching and Honouring Treaties with Indigenous Peoples,” Anthropologica 62(2), special issue: 236-247. |
| Catherine Potvin | McGill University | Biology | Tropical forest ecology and conservation, species conservation, global carbon cycle, climate change, land use, forest protection, Panama. | |
| Magalie Quintal-Marineau | Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique | Centre Urbanisation, Culture, Société | Indigenous Geographies , Critical approaches to Nordic development , Economy of metropolises and peripheral regions , Feminist approaches , Geographies of indigenous / non-indigenous relations | |
| Nicolas Renaud | Concordia University | First Peoples Studies, School of Community and Public Affairs | Wendat worldview and history, Iroquoian cultures, colonialism and decolonization, Indigenous ecologies, wampum belts, Indigenous cinema, and relations between Québec society and Indigenous peoples. | |
| Thierry Rodon | UniversitĂ© Laval | Political Science | Northern political development, Inuit governance, indigenous education, qualitative research, joint management of natural resources, sustainable development, Nunavut, Nunavik, European Nordic countries. | Papillon, M., & Rodon, T. 2019. “The Transformative Potential of Indigenous-Driven Approaches to Implementing Free, Prior and Informed Consent: Lessons from Two Canadian Cases” International Journal on Minority and Group Right. Belayney, A., Rodon, T. & Schott, S. 2018. «Mining Economies: Inuit Business Development and Employment in the Eastern Subarctic», Northern Review, 47 (2018): 59-78. |
Ătienne Roy GrĂ©goire | UniversitĂ© du QuĂ©bec Ă Chicoutimi | Political Science | Mining regulation, Indigenous rights | Roy GrĂ©goire, Etienne. 2020. âGouvernementalitĂ© extractive et autodĂ©termination au Canada. ĂcosystĂšmes normatifs et charge critique de lâinter-normativitĂ©,â Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue canadienne droit et sociĂ©tĂ© 35(3): 455-475. |
Colin H. Scott | McGill University | Anthropology | Indigenous knowledge and resource management, tenure systems, indigenous rights of property and governance, ecological anthropology, relational ontologies, Crees of northern Quebec. Projects: Canadian First Nations Ontologies Dialogues on Sustainability Indigenous Engagements with Mining Living Well in the Torres Strait Protected Areas, Eeyou-Istchee | Mulrennan, Monica E., Colin H. Scott and Katherine Scott, eds. 2019. Caring for Eeyou Itschee: Protected Area Creation on Wemindji Cree Territory. Vancouver: UBC Press. |
| Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert | McGill University | History | Ecological trends, intercultural and ethnic relations, migration, trade, history of mining, urban dynamics, Latin America, Mexico, Panama. Projects: Community Atlas, Urracå Dialogues on Sustainability Indigenous Engagements with Mining Oral History, Comarca NgÀbé-Buglé | The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro: Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. |
| Jon Unruh | McGill University | Geography | Foreign aid, social movements, agriculture, land policy, land tenure, land and property law, development and foreign aid, armed conflict, social movements, sustainable development, pastoral groups, eastern Africa. | |
| Ismael Vaccaro | McGill University | Anthropology | Environmental anthropology, political ecology, property theory, landscape analysis, political anthropology, development, conservation policies, Mexico. | Doyon, Sabrina, and Ismael Vaccaro, eds. 2019. “Repenser la conservation environnementale,” Anthropologie et sociĂ©tĂ©s 43(3), special issue. |