CICADA Alumni

Name	Degree	Institution	Discipline	Supervisor	Committee	Research Title
Ursula Abramczyk	MA	University of Victoria	Anthropology	Brian Thom		Hul’qumi’num Peoples and the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve: Re-storying the Coast Salish Landscape
Janelle Baker	PhD	McGill University	Anthropology	Colin Scott		Cree Perspectives on Wild Food Contamination in Alberta’s Oil Sands Region
Salman Banisadr	MSc	Concordia University	Geography, Planning and Environment	Monica Mulrennan		Graduate Thesis Research as a Lens on the Discipline of Geography’s Engagement of Indigenous Communities in Canada
Nicholas Barber	PhD	McGill University	Anthropology	Ronald Niezen		Baka Representation: Rights, Videomaking, and Indigenous Identity in Southeast Cameroon
Gioia Barnbrook	PhD	University of Aberdeen	Anthropology	Nancy Wachowich and Robert Wishart	David Anderson and Colin Scott	Indigenous knowledge of eelgrass and waterfowl decline in the eastern James Bay
Amy Becker	MA	University of Victoria	Anthropology	Brian Thom		Stz’uminus Storied Places: Community-based Methodologies and Representations of Place in Digital Mapping
Pierre Bédard	PhD	Laval University	Anthropology	Sylvie Poirier		Indigenous immanentism and ontologies. A case study of the Innu of the Lower North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Jessica Béland	MA	Laval University	Anthropology	Sylvie Poirier		Les enjeux et stratégies identitaires des jeunes adultes Nehirowisiwok de Manawan
Mhaly Bois-Charlebois	MA	UQAM	Biology	Hugo Asselin	Nicole Fenton	Les défis de la compensation écologique des impacts sur les milieux humides dans le nord du Québec : étude de cas en territoire Cri
Morgane Bonamy	PhD	Université de Montréal	Geography	Thora Herrmann		Wolverine, Society and Conservation in Canada
Chloe Boone	MSc	Concordia University	Geography, Urban and Environmental Studies	Monica Mulrennan	Nicole Fenton	Relationships, language, and the land: Cree language revitalisation in Wemindji Cree First Nation
Gonzalo Bustamante	PhD	Université du Québec en Outaouais	Applied Social Sciences	Thibault Martin		La gouvernance de l’extraction de ressources naturelles sur les territoires autochtones
Noah Cannon	MSc	Concordia University	Geography, Planning and Environment	Kevin Gould		A Historical and Economic Geography of the Community Well-Being Index: The Role of the Academia–State Nexus in Producing Indigenous Well-Being
Marion Carrier	MSc	Université de Montréal	Geography	Thora Herrmann		Insects tell a story: a web interwoven with entomology and Naskapi knowledge in Kawawachikamach
Damián Castro	PhD	Memorial University of Newfoundland	Anthropology	Mario Blaser		Caribou Meat Distribution Networks in the Community of Sheshatshiu
Mélanie Chaplier	Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship	Dartmouth College	Anthropology	Dale Turner		The “Paix des Braves” Agreement and the Cree Land Tenure Transformations. For a Political Ontology of Resource Exploitation in James Bay, Quebec.
Erin Consiglio	PhD	University of Aberdeen	Anthropology	David Anderson		Human-Animal Relationships and Gwich’in Oral History in Old Crow, Yukon Territory
Jimmy Couillard-Després	MA	Laval University	Geography	Caroline Desbiens		KAPI ICIɅIKATEK : Le territoire nommé des Apitipi8iʌʌik
Dee Cullon	PhD	University of Victoria	Anthropology	Brian Thom		Fish are Persons Too: Human-fish Relationships on the Northwest Coast
Alice Damiano	PhD	McGill University	Renewable Resources	Peter Brown and Colin Scott		Ecological Economics, Behavioural Economics, Indigenous Studies and natural/environmental disasters
Benjamin Dangl	PhD	McGill University	History	Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert		Rebel Memory: The Politics of the Past in Bolivian Indigenous Movements, 1970-2015
Karine Desjardins	PhD	Université du Québec en Outaouais	Applied Social Sciences	Thibault Martin		Le territoire de la guérison: le renouveau des pratiques spirituelles autochtones
Heather Elliot	MSc	Concordia University	Geography, Planning and Environment	Monica Mulrennan		nsettling the Table: Decolonization within and through the Food Movement
Benoit Éthier	PhD	Université Laval	Anthropology	Sylvie Poirier		Orocowewin notcimik itatcihowin: ontologie politique et contemporanéité des droits et de la responsabilité territoriale chez les Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok dans le contexte des négociations territoriales globales
Justin Fritz	MA	University of Victoria	Anthropology	Brian Thom		W̱SÁNEĆ Reef-Net Sites: Digital Mapping, Territoriality, and the Revitalization of the Reef Net Fishery
Justine Gagnon	PhD	Université Laval	Geography	Caroline Desbiens		Manikuakanishtuk: La commémoration des lieux et des paysages inondés dans une perspective d’affirmation culturelle
Mathieu Gauthier	MA	University of Ottawa	Globalization and International Development	Karine Vanthuyne		Les projets de vie et le développement extractif: Une enquête sur la mine Éléonore auprès de la Nation crie de Wemindji
Arnaud Gingras-Tremblay	Master of Law	Laval University	Law	Geneviève Motard		Le régime minier et la reconnaissance judiciaire d’un titre ancestral sur le territoire québécois: un arrimage imparfait
Jennifer Gobby	PhD	McGill University	Natural Resource Sciences	Peter Brown		Towards Decolonization & Decarbonization: Understanding and Supporting Indigenous Efforts for Systems Change in Canada
Camilo Gómez	PhD	McGill University	Anthropology	Colin Scott		The Value of the Sacred: Extraction of Natural Resources in Indigenous Territories. Culture, Spirituality, and Conflict in the Colombian Amazon
Marie-Michèle Grenon	PhD	Laval University	Anthropology	Sabrina Doyon		De Yo, sí puedo à ArrowMight: un exemple de coopération « Sud-Nord » dans le domaine de l’alphabétisation
Jeff Hackett	MA	Concordia University	Geography, Planning and Environment	Sébastien Caquard		“As Long as this Land Shall Last”: The Role of Mapping Traditional Knowledge and Use in the Struggle for Self-Determination in Northern Canada
Ève Harbour-Marsan	MA	Laval University	Geography	Caroline Desbiens		Gouvernance et bilan depuis 1994 de l’approvisionnement énergétique au Nunavik : quelle est la participation des Inuit?
Emery Hartley	MSc	McGill University	Renewable Resources	Peter Brown		Situating corporations in natural resource management: a corporate power map of Treaty 8 territory in northeastern British Columbia
Kelda Helweg-Larsen	MA	University of Victoria	Anthropology	Brian Thom		ČaɁak (Islands): How Place-based Indigenous Perspectives Can Inform National Park Visitor Experience Programming in Nuu-chah-nulth Traditional Territory
Gyorgy Henyei Neto	PhD	University of Aberdeen	Anthropology	Timothy Ingold		Handmade in Sápmi: Duodji, material culture and arguments on identity through traditional handcraft
Jessica Hewitt	MSc	Concordia University	Geography, Planning and Environment	Monica Mulrennan		Remapping land with Kwantlen First Nation: strategies for enhancing their control and participation in Regional Park planning and management in British Columbia
Tariq Hossein	MSc	Concordia University	Geography, Planning and Environment	Monica Mulrennan		Tourism as a Livelihood Alternative for James Bay Cree Coastal Communities
Tara Joly	PhD	University of Aberdeen	Anthropology	Robert Wishart		Making productive space: land use, muskeg, and reclamation in the Athabasca oil sands, Fort McMurray, Canada
Evans Kirigia	PhD	McGill University	Anthropology	John Galaty		Community-based conservation and environmentality in Kenya
Kawtar Lahkim	Master of Law	Laval University	Law	Geneviève Motard		La notion d’intérêt public comme limite à l’exercice des droits territoriaux des peuples autochtones au Québec et en Guyane
Annie Lalancette	MSc	Concordia University	Geography, Planning and Environment	Monica Mulrennan		In the Same Boat: Encouraging Perspective and Knowledge Sharing in the Tropical Rock Lobster Fishery, Torres Strait, Australia
Juan Larrea Savinovich	LL.M	McGill University	Law	Kirsten Anker		Research on the rights of nature, extractive industries and corporate social responsibility in Ecuador
Etienne Le Merre	PhD	Université Laval and Montpellier SupAgro	Geography	Caroline Desbiens		Inuit well-being and mining implantation in Nunavik
Jorge Legoas Pena	Postdoctoral Fellowship	McGill University	Anthropology	Thibault Martin		Citizenship and planning in the Andes: Governing through science and law in the margins of the Neoliberal State
Emmanuel Kileli Leyani	MA	University of Victoria	Geography	Philip Dearden		The Assessment of the Effectiveness of an Incentive-based Conservation Approach in Lololiondo north of Tanzania.
Avital Li	Undergraduate Arts Research Internship Award	McGill University	Sustainability, Science and Society	Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert		Alternative Development Initiatives in the Ngobe-Bugle Comarca
Klerkson Lugusa	PhD	McGill University	Anthropology	Nicolas Kosoy and John Galay		Public-Private partnerships as institutions for natural resource conservation, management and use: Case studies of conservancies in the drylands of Kenya.
Perry Maddox	MA	McGill University	Anthropology	Colin Scott		Farming As Politics: Exploring The Meaning Of Agriculture In Two Ngäbé-Buglé Communities
Simon Maraud	PhD	Université de Limoges	Physical and Environmental Geography	Caroline Desbiens		Instrumentalisations de la nature en territoires autochtones: comparaison entre le Sápmi (Suède) et Eeyou Itschee (Québec, Canada)
Francesca Marin	PhD	University of Aberdeen	Anthropology	Timothy Ingold		The first animal to disappear will be the small-scale fisherman
Thomas McGurk	MSc	Concordia University	Geography, Planning and Environment	Sébastien Caquard		Indigenous online Mapping in Canada – Decolonizing or recolonizing forms of spatial expressions?
Sarah Moritz	PhD	McGill University	Anthropology	Colin Scott	Rob Wishart and Ismael Vaccaro	“Fish is there for our descendants!”: Intersections of Interior Salish Upper St’át’imc Fishing, Hydro-Electric Development and Environmental Change in the Fraser River Valley of British Columbia
Pierre Alexandre Paquet	PhD	McGill University	Anthropology	Ismael Vaccaro and Colin Scott		Migrating Environmental Subjects: The perspective of the Van Gujjars on environmental conservation and forestry in the Rajaji and Govid National Parks, Uttarakhand, India
Claire Poirier	PhD	Memorial University of Newfoundland	Archaeology	Mario Blaser		Hunting Buffalo Under the Ground: Ontological Encounters in Heritage Management
Elias Pottek	PhD	Université de Montréal	Geography	Thora Herrmann		Communal Conflict and the Geopolitics of Land Tenure and Rural Resource Management in North and South Kivu (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Matthew Pritchard	PhD	McGill University	Geography	Jon Unruh		The Co-Evolution of Land Tenure Systems in South Sudan: (Re)defining, (re)developing and (re)expressing human-environment relations in a post-conflict environment
Tamara Ranspot	PhD	University of Aberdeen	Anthropology	David Anderson		Music and Human-Animal Relations Among Northern Athapaskans
Geneviève Reid	PhD	McGill University	Geography	Renée Sieber	Colin Scott	Aspirations of the Cree in Northern Quebec and Geospatial Ontologies
Daniel Ruiz-Serna	PhD	McGill University	Anthrpology	Eduardo Kohn		When Forests Run Amok. Violence and its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian territories
Paula Schiefer	PhD	University of Aberdeen	Anthropology	David Anderson		Cultivating Salmon. Human-Fish Relations in Bethel, Alaska
Divya Sharma	MSc	McGill University	Biology	Catherine Potvin		Genesis of an indigenous social-ecological landscape in eastern Panama
Katie Sinclair	PhD	McGill University	Anthropology	Colin Scott		Policy and Local Engagement: Mining in Arctic Canada
Alyse Stuart	MA	Memorial University of Newfoundland	Gender Studies	Mario Blaser		Fracking Canadian Settler Narratives: The Elsipogtog Shale-Gas Protest and Indigenous Women’s Resistance
Annick Thomassin	PhD	McGill University	Anthropology	Colin Scott	Ronald Niezen, Ismael Vaccaro and Monica Mulrennan	Ina ngalmun lagau (this part of the sea belong to us) – Fisheries Co-management and Sea Rights in Torres Strait: A Sea Change in Power Relationships?
Carolina Tytelman	PhD	Memorial University of Newfoundland	Anthropology	Mario Blaser		People and Trees: Forest Co-Management in Nitassinan-Labrador
Geoffrey Wallace	PhD	McGill University	History	Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert		The History and Geography of Beeswax Extraction in the Northern Maya Lowlands, 1540-1700
Paul Wattez	PhD	University of Montreal and University of Laval	Anthropology	Marie-Pierre Bousquet and Sylvie Poirier		lyiyuu Ihtuun and the politics of heritage among the Eeyouch
Mélanie Wittes	Undergraduate Arts Research Internship Award	McGill University	Anthropology	Colin Scott		Developing a Website for the Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives (CICADA)
Corey Wright	PhD	McGill University	Anthropology	John Galaty		Biodiversity dilemmas: indigenous rights and environmental justice in a changing climate and a relentless global economy