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Aboriginal
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Aboriginal
and Indigenous Faculty Profiles:
George
J. Sefa Dei
Judy
Iseke-Barnes
Njoki
Nathani Wane
Allied
Faculty Profiles:
Paul
Olson
Associated
Aboriginal and Indigenous Faculty Profiles:
Jeff
Reading
Judy
Iseke-Barnes
Judy Iseke-Barnes
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies
in Education. She has developed a national network of Aborigianl educators
from across Canada called VOICES. The development of this network is part
of a research project which focuses on issues of access and resistance
amongst Aboriginal peoples in Canada. This work is part of a larger research
program funded by a large scale SSHRC grant which examines the intersection
of discourses about identity, community, culture, and pedagogy through
Internet conversations with Aboriginal teachers and students from across
Canada (who are affiliated with many Aboriginal nations--Cree, Dene, Inuit,
Métis, Mi'kmaq, Mohawk, Ojibway, Okanagan, and others). It places
particular emphasis on the sharing of diverse understandings of Aboriginal
cultures in cyberspace and implications for pedagogy and curriculum.
George
J. Sefa Dei
George Dei is Professor
and Associate Chair in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in
Education, cross-appointed to the Department of Anthropology, University
of Toronto. He served as the first Director of the Centre for Integrative
Anti-Racism Studies (CIARS) at OISE/UT from 1996-2000. He is involved in
antiracism and domination studies; sociology of race and ethnicity; international
development; indigenous knowledges and anticolonial thought; political
ecology; and, ethnography.
Njoki
Nathani Wane
Njoki Nathani
Wane is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity
Studies in Education. Her areas of interest include African women, African
feminisms, Black feminisms, international development, indigenous knowledges,
school and society, and antiracist studies. Her current research is on
Black feminisms among African-Canadian women.
Paul
Olson
Paul Olson
is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies
in Education. His work in both Methods (SES1902) and Introduction to Sociology
(SES1900) reflect experiences working in First Nations communities in North-Eastern
Ontario on issues of schooling and racism, native inclusiveness in schooling,
and comparison of implementation of Native second level service in achieving
goals of First Nations autonomy. This Canadian work is blended with a comparative
dimension including working with Indigenous peoples in New Zealand, Australia,
Fiji, South Africa, and elsewhere.
Jeff
Reading
Institute of Aboriginal People's
Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
.
Dr. Jeff Reading, a Mohawk from
Southern Ontario and a CIHR new investigator, obtained his Doctor of Philosophy
(1994) and Master of Science (1990) degrees from the Department of Community
Health at the University of Toronto. Since 1994, Dr. Reading has split
his time between an academic appointment as Assistant Professor at the
Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University
of Manitoba; health research advisor to the Assembly of First Nations in
Ottawa; and as a private health research consultant in Victoria, BC. Currently
a professor in University of Toronto's Department of Public Health Sciences,
he is well known nationally and internationally for his research on native
health, policy, and social determinants with particular expertise in participatory
research and survey research methods, along with a substantive focus on
diabetes, tobacco use, and heart disease. Dr. Reading has numerous memberships
on national boards, committees, advisory bodies and recently served on
the federal Minister of Health Advisory Councils for HIV/AIDS and the Canadian
Infostructure.
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