The 23 researchers commited to this project are drawn from the disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, biology, geography, history, and law. Together, we possess expertise in several cross-disciplinary fields and methodologies: comparative ethnography, indigenous rights, political ecology, landscape ecology, conflict studies, natural resource sciences, heritage studies and community collaboration. These are the core disciplines and fields required to address our key objectives through the six research axes set forth below and in the proposal.
Project Researchers
| Name | Institution | Discipline | Research Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| kirsten.anker [at] mcgill.ca (Kirsten Anker) | McGill University | Aboriginal Law | Property law, aboriginal peoples and the law, legal theory, law and social science, law and language, alternative dispute resolution. |
| mblaser [at] mun.ca (Mario Blaser) | Memorial University of Newfoundland | Cultural Anthropology | Indigenous knowledges and Western science in conservation and development projects, indigenous political mobilization, ontological politics, Yshiro, Paraguay and Innu, Labrador. |
| colin.chapman [at] mcgill.ca (Colin Chapman) | McGill University | Environmental Anthropology | Conservation biology, primate behavioral ecology, tropical forest regeneration, freshwater fish ecology, plant phenology and distributions, Africa/Uganda. |
| andre.costopoulos [at] mcgill.ca (André Costopoulos) | McGill University | Paleoanthropology | Agent-based modeling of forager adaptations and ecosystemic change in subarctic environments, ethno-archaeology. |
| nicole.c.couture [at] mcgill.ca (Nicole Couture) | McGill Univeristy | Archaeology | Monumental space, material culture, and the politics of archaeological heritage resources, Bolivian and Peruvian Andes. |
| pdearden [at] mail.geog.uvic.ca (Philip Dearden) | University of Victoria | Natural Resources Geography | Parks and protected areas, incentive-based community conservation, marine, Tanzania, Ghana, SE Asia. |
| john.galaty [at] mcgill.ca (John Galaty) | McGill | Cultural Anthropology | Pastoralism, rangeland development, wildlife and community conservation, property and land tenure, legal anthropology, social conflict and violence, identity, ritual, eastern Africa. |
| kgould [at] alcor.concordia.ca (Kevin Gould) | Concordia University | Geography, Planing and Environment | Political ecology, economic geography, land policies in Guatemala. |
| thora.martina.herrmann [at] umontreal.ca (Thora Herrmann) | Université de Montréal | Social/Cultural Geography | Indigenous knowledge, culture, religion and biodiversity, community-based resource management, ethnobotany and ethnoecology, gender, sustainabledevelopment, United Nations policy development, Mapuche, Chile and Naskapi, Quebec. |
| murray.humphries [at] mcgill.ca (Murray Humphries) | McGill University | Natural Resources Sciences | Energetics and ecology, integration of traditional and scientific ecological knowledge to monitor and predict environmental change impacts on northern wildlife and traditional food security, Canadian subarctic. |
| jjaeger [at] alcor.concordia.ca (Jochen Jaeger) | Concordia University | Land Use Geography | Landscape structure and landscape change, ecological modeling landscape fragmentation and GIS applications for assessing cumulative environmental impacts. |
| tim.johns [at] mcgill.ca (Tim Johns) | McGill University | Biological Sciences | Indigenous plant biodiversity, food security, nutrition and health environmental integrity and sustainable use, Africa, Latin America, subarctic Quebec. |
| eduardo.kohn [at] mcgill.ca (Eduardo Kohn) | McGill University | Cultural Anthropology | Animal-human semiotic relations, situating human worlds within the processes and relationships that exceed the human, Amazonian Ecuador. |
| awimona [at] mail.cdhu.edu.tw (Awi Mona) | National Dong Hwa University | Indigenous Development & Social Work | International human rights law, indigenous law and policy, land and natural resource rights, indigenous governance, participatory research. |
| monica.mulrennan [at] concordia.ca (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. |
| james.savelle [at] mcgill.ca (James Savelle) | McGill University | Archaeology | Prehistoric Inuit societies, organizational structure and social relations within the context of varying subsistence economies, ethno-archaeology, Canadian Arctic. |
| colin.scott [at] mcgill.ca (Colin Scott) (Principal Investigator) | McGill University | Cultural Anthropology | Indigenous knowledge and resource management, tenure systems, indigenous rights of property and governance, ecological anthropology, relational ontologies, Crees of northern Quebec. |
| scott.simon [at] uottawa.ca (Scott Simon) | University of Ottawa | Anthropology | Indigenous rights, political anthropology, ecological knowledge and hunting culture, human-animal relations, Taiwan. |
| evsilva [at] uv.mx (Evodia Silva-Rivera) | Universidad Veracruzana | Interdisciplinary Studies | Cultural and natural heritage restoration and conservation, participatory forest and watershed management, grassroots sustainable development, community education, Totonacan communities, Mexico. |
| daviken.studnicki-gizbert [at] mcgill.ca (Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert) | McGill University | Economic History | The social and environmental history of natural resource extraction in Latin America, early Iberian discourses on the transformation of nature, the historical geography of mining in Mexico over the longue durée, and the history of autochthonous landscapes on the Isthmus of Panama. |
| bthom [at] uvic.ca (Brian Thom) | University of Victoria | Anthropology | Indigenous rights and governance, park and heritage collaboration and co-management, indigenous property systems, place, Coast Salish, British Columbia. |
| ismael.vaccaro [at] mcgill.ca (Ismael Vaccaro) | McGill University | Environmental Anthropology | Environmental anthropology, political ecology, property theory, landscape analysis, political anthropology/development, conservation policies, Mexico. |
| karine.vanthuyne [at] uottawa.ca (Karine Vanthuyne) | University of Ottawa | Anthropology | Political and medical anthropology, violence and conflict, memory and identity, indigenous movements, decolonization struggles, ecotourism, Crees of northern Quebec and Mayans of Guatemala. |
Researchers by Research Axis
The inputs of our university-based specialists are directed to the six major axes identified in our ‘summary of proposed partnership and activity’:
| Research Axis | Researcher |
|---|---|
| The cultural constitution of trans-species communities, of indigenous ‘places’, and implications for territorial politics, and popular movements. | mblaser [at] mun.ca (Mario Blaser), nicole.c.couture [at] mcgill.ca (Nicole Couture), tim.johns [at] mcgill.ca (Tim Johns), eduardo.kohn [at] mcgill.ca (Eduardo Kohn), colin.scott [at] mcgill.ca (Colin Scott), daviken.studnicki-gizbert [at] mcgill.ca (Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert), bthom [at] uvic.ca (Brian Thom) |
| Indigenous ecological knowledge, tenure and resource management regimes. | mblaser [at] mun.ca (Mario Blaser), pdearden [at] mail.geog.uvic.ca (Philip Dearden), john.galaty [at] mcgill.ca (John Galaty), kgould [at] alcor.concordia.ca (Kevin Gould), thora.martina.herrmann [at] umontreal.ca (Thora Herrmann), murray.humphries [at] mcgill.ca (Murray Humphries), tim.johns [at] mcgill.ca (Tim Johns), awimona [at] mail.cdhu.edu.tw (Awi Mona), monica.mulrennan [at] concordia.ca (Monica Mulrennan), colin.scott [at] mcgill.ca (Colin Scott), evsilva [at] uv.mx (Evodia Silva-Rivera), ismael.vaccaro [at] mcgill.ca (Ismael Vaccaro) |
| Modeling and analysis of change in landscapes, ecosystems and subsistence adaptations. | colin.chapman [at] mcgill.ca (Colin Chapman), andre.costopoulos [at] mcgill.ca (André Costopoulos), murray.humphries [at] mcgill.ca (Murray Humphries), jjaeger [at] alcor.concordia.ca (Jochen Jaeger), tim.johns [at] mcgill.ca (Tim Johns), james.savelle [at] mcgill.ca (James Savelle), daviken.studnicki-gizbert [at] mcgill.ca (Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert), ismael.vaccaro [at] mcgill.ca (Ismael Vaccaro) |
| Resource use conflicts, violence, dispute resolution. | kirsten.anker [at] mcgill.ca (Kirsten Anker), john.galaty [at] mcgill.ca (John Galaty), awimona [at] mail.cdhu.edu.tw (Awi Mona), daviken.studnicki-gizbert [at] mcgill.ca (Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert), karine.vanthuyne [at] uottawa.ca (Karine Vanthuyne) |
| Community collaboration in archaeology and heritage resources. | andre.costopoulos [at] mcgill.ca (André Costopoulos), nicole.c.couture [at] mcgill.ca (Nicole Couture), james.savelle [at] mcgill.ca (James Savelle), bthom [at] uvic.ca (Brian Thom) |
| Discourses and policies of indigenous rights, conservation and development in cross-institutional and transnational settings. | kirsten.anker [at] mcgill.ca (Kirsten Anker), mblaser [at] mun.ca (Mario Blaser), colin.chapman [at] mcgill.ca (Colin Chapman), john.galaty [at] mcgill.ca (John Galaty), thora.martina.herrmann [at] umontreal.ca (Thora Herrmann), awimona [at] mail.cdhu.edu.tw (Awi Mona), monica.mulrennan [at] concordia.ca (Monica Mulrennan), colin.scott [at] mcgill.ca (Colin Scott), bthom [at] uvic.ca (Brian Thom), ismael.vaccaro [at] mcgill.ca (Ismael Vaccaro) |