Indigenous Issues
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Jan Hare
Associate Professor
- Aboriginal youth mobility, Aboriginal family and community perspectives on early literacy, literature, identity construction and urban Aboriginal youth
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Doris Baltruschat, PhD
Author, Educator
- Media/digital literacy
- stereoscopic (3D)
- virtual reality and social media
- independent film
- digital citizenship and media democracy
- media ecologies
- transmedia storytelling
- international co-productions and TV formats
- film/TV audience reception
- aboriginal media/arctic cinema
- social movements
- social networks
- social networking
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Rob Tierney, PhD
Professor
- Global epistemologies and cross-cultural research in education and literacy
- social science research
- diversity
- social justice
- equity
- indigenous matters
- digital literacies
- nature of literacy
- meaning making
- reading comprehension
- reading-writing relationships
- teaching
- learning
- educational assessment
- teacher education
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Dr. Linc Kesler, PhD
Associate Professor
- Indigenous identity
- Indian residential schools
- university Indigenous strategy
- effects of communications technology
- critical theory
- 16th and 17th English literature
- Indigenous literature
- literature of US minorities,
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Dr. Farah Shroff, BSc, MEd (Primary Health Care), PhD
Public Health Researcher and Educator
- public health
- social equity
- women's health
- global politics
- social determinants of health
- anti-racism
- anti-imperialism
- integrative health
- holistic health practices
- yoga
- meditation
- indigenous systems of health
- health policy
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Vanessa Brcic
Clinical Instructor
- Primary care
- family medicine
- poverty
- social determinants of health
- health inequities
- health care of marginalized populations
- private vs. public health care debate
- health care reform
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Mark Turin, PhD
Associate Professor
- Himalaya
- Nepal
- First Nations
- indigenous
- anthropology
- linguistics
- endangered languages
- digital
- archives
- museums
- Bhutan
- India
- Tibet
- technology
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Patricia Dawn Mills, PhD Law
Adjunct Professor
- Canadian First Nation rights and titles as it relates to Federal and Provincial Resource management, mining law, equity and the sustainability of a finite, location-specific resource