Vanessa Ambtman Smith (Two Thunderbirds/Niizhbinesiik)
Assistant Professor, Geography & Environment, Indigenous Studies
Nêhiyaw-Métis

• Indigenous health geographies
• Indigenous traditional healing spaces within a hospital context

Cody Groat
Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies, History
Kanyen’kehaka (Mohawk) and band member of Six Nations of the Grand River

• Indigenous public history and biographical history
• Commemoration and preservation of Indigenous cultural heritage
• Sixties scoop
• Residential school system

Dr. Rebekah Jacques
Assistant Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and Forensic Pathologist
Citizen of Métis Nation

• Death investigation bioethics
• The role of forensics in the search for residential schools missing children
• Forensic pathology

Sheri Osden Nault
Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
Métis

• Indigenous art
• Contemporary art
• Experimental art
• Ecological and environmental art

Nicole Redvers
Associate Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry; Western Research Chair and Director of Indigenous Planetary Health
Deninu K’ue First Nation

• Indigenous health
• Planetary health
• Traditional medicine
• Indigenous global health

Lina Sunseri
Professor, Indigenous Studies, Sociology
Oneida Nation of the Thames, of the Turtle Clan

• Indigenous women
• Indigenous mothering
• Decolonization
• Gender and nationalism
• Community development

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