Nicole Bell | Associate Professor
Nicole is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Education. Her research areas include: Indigenous culture-based education, infusion of Indigenous knowledge into public schooling and teacher education, decolonization and healing, and Indigenous research theory and methodology.
Nicole is Anishnaabe (Bear Clan) from Kitigan Zibi First Nation in Quebec. She is the mother of five boys and is passionate about Indigenous education, motivated by her educational experiences personally and as a mother.
Jenn Cole | Assistant Professor
Jenn Cole is mixed-ancestry Algonquin Anishinaabe from Kiji Sibi watershed territory. She is Assistant Professor of Indigenous Performance and Gender in The Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies and Gender and Social Justice. She is Artistic Director for Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space. She is also editor for Canadian Theatre Review Views and Reviews, a mother, and a performer.
Jenn researches Indigenous Performance as it intersects with cultural continuance; Indigenous joy; settler/Indigenous relations; and reciprocal relationship to the Land, especially at the site of the Kiji Sibi/Ottawa River.
Mark Dockstator | Associate Professor
My primary interest lies in the practical application of Indigenous knowledge to the contemporary situation of Indigenous Peoples. For example, how do you incorporate aspects of Indigenous knowledge into self government...health care...economic development…land claims? The practical, day to day use and incorporation of Indigenous Knowledge into the lives of Indigenous Peoples is not only a need...but also represents the very heart of the continuing existence of Indigenous people as Indigenous Peoples. Dr. Dockstator is no longer taking students.
Kevin Fitzmaurice | Associate Professor
As an ally scholar, Dr. Kevin Fitzmaurice is a Co-Investigator and National Steering Committee Member with the 'A Safe and Affordable Place to Call Home: A Multi-disciplinary Longitudinal Outcomes Analysis of the National Housing Strategy' and an Ontario Regional Co-Director with the 'Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network (UAKN). He is also a Co-Investigator with the 'Making the Shift: Youth Homelessness Innovation Lab (Sudbury/Timmins)' and the 'Maamwizing Indigenous Research Institute / Race Gender Diversity Initiative'.
His areas of teaching and research specialization include Urban Indigenous Studies, Housing and Homelessness, Indigenous-Settler Politics and Law, Indigenous Critical Theory, and Indigenous Research Methods.
Chris Furgal | Associate Professor
My research interests are in the fields of environmental health risk assessment, management and communication in cooperation with Indigenous populations. A particular focus of the work is on communities living in rapidly changing natural environments such as coastal and Arctic ecosystems.
Jack Hoggarth | Assistant Professor, Chair of Anishinaabe Knowledge
Jack is the Chair of Anishinaabe Knowledge, as well as an Assistant Professor of Michi Saagiig Culture & Knowledge within the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies. He pursued his academic education at Trent University, the University of Northern British Columbia, and Western University. In addition to his academic background, Jack continues to learn his traditional Anishinaabeg education, in which, he is a member of the Minweyweywigaan Midewiganing. His home communities are Kawartha Nishnawbe First Nation, Curve Lake First Nation, Teet'it Zhen (NT), and Old Crow First Nation (YT).
Areas of Supervision: Anishinaabeg oral history, traditional governance, and the clan system, Anishinaabeg ceremonial practices and traditional knowledge, Anishinaabeg ontological, pedagogical, and eschatological frameworks, and First Nation archaeology.
Dan Longboat | Associate Professor
My research interests are diverse and cover topics including Indigenous environmental Knowledges and philosophy, Indigenous responses to environmental issues, interactive science and Indigenous Knowledge systems, Indigenous education, pedagogy and Indigenous ways of knowing as founded upon Indigenous languages and cultures, the recognition and resurgence of Traditional Indigenous lifeways and practices, human health and the environment, Traditional Indigenous foods and medicines, natural resource development and restoration, community sustainability, international Indigenous networks, the recognition of Treaty and Indigenous rights and understandings of the environmental and human impacts of colonialism. Dr. Longboat is on sabbatical for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Elizabeth Osawamick | Associate Professor
As an Anishinaabe-kwe (Indigenous woman), Liz Osawamick's pedagogy is informed by her cultural practices; thus, as a fluent Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe/Odawa Language) speaker, teaching Anishinaabemowin, the Ojibwe language, is her life practice. She sees language as a foundation that is required to retain, revitalize, and regenerate the Anishinaabe traditions, culture, and history of which she is an active practitioner. She also sees language acquisition as a bridge to reconciliation for non-Indigenous students, paving the way for a future of better relationships between Anishinaabeg and non-Indigenous peoples. She utilizes an active Anishinaabeg method of teaching and learning through song, dance, and other culturally based activities and practices.
She will work with students whose research fields encompass
Anishinaabe language, knowledge, and culture, as well as with students in other areas of study. In supporting a deeper understanding of the land, history, and experiences of Indigenous people in every sector of Canadian culture and society, her work has relevance and impact across all disciplines and in every field or study.
Jackson Pind | Assistant Professor
Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Methodologies in the Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. He was formerly the inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow in Indigenous Education at the Faculty of Education, Queen's University. He finished his doctorate in education during the Fall of 2021 with a focus on the history of Indian Day Schools in Ontario in partnership with Curve Lake First Nation which was awarded the 2022 Canadian History of Education Dissertation Prize.
Areas of Supervision: Anishinaabeg history, Indigenous education, Indigenous-settler relations, Counter-mapping/Digital historical mapping, and Climate change history.
Robin Quantick | Assistant Professor
My research interests fall into two areas:
Justice Issues: Prisons and prison education with particular emphasis on the disproportionate representation of incarcerated Indigenous men and women in Canada. The focus of this work is on Elders and their role in contributing to successtul community reintegration for incarcerated Indigenous men and women.
Decolonizing Curriculum Design: I am interested in the challenges of Indigenization in the academy and in the community. I am particularly interested in research that explores the application of Indigenous Knowledge and Universal Design for Learning in the design and delivery of decolonizing courses of study.
Paula Sherman, Director and Associate Professor
My work is focused primarily in the area of Indigenous histories and Indigenous women. My focus has been on restoring Indigenous autonomy through historical research that is grounded in Indigenous methodologies and encompassing methods such as Indigenous performance, language, land based knowledge, orality, and archival or documentary sources. I will accept students who are working in the area of Indigenous history, women, or other related fields.
Skahendowaneh Swamp | Associate Professor & Chair of Indigenous Knowledge, Wolf Clan Faith Keeper
I am actively involved in my home community of Akwesasne as a language teacher and Faith Keeper. My research focus is on Haudenosaunee traditional knowledge.
I will accept students whose areas of research are connected to Haudenosaunee knowledge and traditions.
skahendowanehswamp@trentu.ca Skahendowaneh Swamp is on sabbatical for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Barbara Moktthewenkwe Wall | Director of Studies PhD Program and Associate Professor​
Barbara Moktthewenkwe Wall is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in Shawnee, Oklahoma. She is a Dual-Tradition scholar of mixed ancestry. Barbara teaches in the Indigenous Environmental Studies/Sciences and Indigenous Studies PhD programs.
Her research is primarily based in the Great Lakes Basin and focuses on Anishinaabe Knowledges and foodways - reclamation and revitalization, and their application at the interface with euro-centric environmental studies and sciences.
Areas of supervision: Anishinaabe Knowledges, foodways and women's knowledges and practices, application of Indigenous Knowledges systems at the interface with euro-centric environmental studies and sciences.