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Dr. Wasiq Silan
Tayal
National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Assistant Professor Indigenous Development and Social Work
Lokah simu kwara! I am Wasiq Silan (I-An Gao 高怡安). I am a Tayal woman from the Mstaranan known as the Nanshi River…
Dr. Wasiq Silan
Lokah simu kwara! I am Wasiq Silan (I-An Gao 高怡安). I am a Tayal woman from the Mstaranan known as the Nanshi River valley in the northern part of Taiwan. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki in 2021. My work engages with Taiwan's social policy and the Tayal elders, grounded in interpretive policy analysis and critical ethnography while drawing from Indigenous methodologies. Doing Indigenous methodologies heal self-doubt and colonial wounds. You can listen to a short poem reflecting on my self-doubt about not being Indigenous here. I was a core fellow at the prestigious Helsinki… -
Associate Professor Renée Monchalin
Métis
University of Toronto, Canada
Associate Professor
Dr. Renée Monchalin is a Scientist at Unity Health Toronto, cross appointed with the Well Living House, and MAP Centre…
Associate Professor Renée Monchalin
Dr. Renée Monchalin is a Scientist at Unity Health Toronto, cross appointed with the Well Living House, and MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute.She is the Director of the Fireweed Project, a community-led project aimed at advancing knowledge around, and removing barriers to accessing abortion services and care for Indigenous peoples in Canada. The Fireweed Project is currently hiring.Dr. Monchalin’s research explores access to culturally safe health services, primarily with urban Métis Peoples. Her research program advances Métis reproductive… -
Associate Professor David Newhouse
Onondaga
Trent University, Canada
Associate Professor & Chair, Chaney Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies
David Newhouse is Onondaga from the Six Nations of the Grand River community near Brantford, Ontario. He was the first…
Associate Professor David Newhouse
David Newhouse is Onondaga from the Six Nations of the Grand River community near Brantford, Ontario. He was the first Principal of the new Peter Gzowski College at Trent University and Chair of the Department of Indigenous Studies. He is also an Associate Professor in the Business Administration Program. Professor Newhouse is Co-Chair of the Trent Aboriginal Education Council. He was the IMC/U of S Aboriginal Scholar in Residence at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon in 1998/99. He also teaches in the Graduate CED Program at Concordia University.He served as founding editor of the… -
Dominic O'Sullivan
Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu
Charles Sturt University, Australia
Professor in Political Science
Professor Dominic O'Sullivan is a political scientist in the School of Social Work and Arts and Yindymarra Nguluway. He…
Dominic O'Sullivan
Professor Dominic O'Sullivan is a political scientist in the School of Social Work and Arts and Yindymarra Nguluway. He is interested in comparative indigenous politics and public policy and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has authored eight books and co-edited one. Dominic has published more than 60 journal articles and book chapters and more than 120 articles for public audiences, including in the Conversation, Open Forum and the New Zealand Herald.Dominic is also an Adjunct Professor at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University… -
Associate Professor Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
Kanaka Maoli
University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Associate Professor in Political Science
I am a Kanaka Maoli wahine mākua, artist, activist, scholar, and storyteller born and raised in Pālolo Valley to my…
Associate Professor Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
I am a Kanaka Maoli wahine mākua, artist, activist, scholar, and storyteller born and raised in Pālolo Valley to my parents, Jonathan and Mary Osorio. I earned my PhD in English (Hawaiian literature) in 2018 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where I currently work as an Associate Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics. In 2020, my poetry and activism were the subject of an award-winning film, This is the Way We Rise, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2021. In 2022, I was a lead artist and co-writer of the VR documentary On the Morning You Wake (To the End of… -
Robin Quigg
Raukawa, Ngāti Tamaterā
University of Otago
Associate Professor - Māori Health
I have a wide range of research interests with experience in physical activity and playgrounds (with accelerometers and…
Robin Quigg
I have a wide range of research interests with experience in physical activity and playgrounds (with accelerometers and GPS units), smokefree environment policy evaluation, and equity in tertiary education.I am particularly interested in decolonising spaces, such as parks, as they are largely westernised concept, reflecting the industrial revolution distinction between work and leisure, with the parks the result of colonisation, space taken from indigenous cultures. They are not innocuous features of the landscape especially in cities, but result from colonialist intervention, and have… -
Dr. Marama Salsano
Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Wairere
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Dr Marama Salsano joined Te Manawahoukura in 2025. She has extensive high school English teaching experience in…
Dr. Marama Salsano
Dr Marama Salsano joined Te Manawahoukura in 2025. She has extensive high school English teaching experience in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her PhD project explored multigenre as an Indigenous form and contemplated the relationship between visual creativity and writing. As a collaborative and interdisciplinary researcher, Marama works at the intersection of Māori literary studies, toi Māori (Māori art), creative writing, and iwi Rangahau. Her current research interests reflect the contours, dynamism and scope of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki archival writing and publishing. -
Kanako Uzawa
Ainu
University of Melbourne
Visiting Scholar
Dr. Kanako Uzawa is an Ainu scholar, artist, museum curator, and advocate dedicated to amplifying Indigenous voices…
Kanako Uzawa
Dr. Kanako Uzawa is an Ainu scholar, artist, museum curator, and advocate dedicated to amplifying Indigenous voices worldwide. As the founder of AinuToday and CEO of K. Uzawa Consult, she bridges academic and public platforms to celebrate Indigenous identity. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity at Hokkaido University and an affiliated researcher at the Historical Museum of the University of Oslo, Norway.Dr. Uzawa holds an MA in Indigenous Studies and a PhD in Community Planning and Cultural Understanding from UiT Arctic… -
Professor Elizabeth Sumida Huaman
Quechua
University of Minnesota, USA
Professor of Comparative and International Development Education
Situated in the Mantaro Valley of Junín, Peru is an autochthonous Quechua Indigenous community that I call home. My…
Professor Elizabeth Sumida Huaman
Situated in the Mantaro Valley of Junín, Peru is an autochthonous Quechua Indigenous community that I call home. My mother and her siblings were born and raised in an adobe family house built by my grandparents, Antonieta Jesusa Carhuamaca and Antonio Huaman. Two floors of small rooms are linked by a wooden ladder that leads up to a balcony where a view of the entire valley includes one of our sacred mountain glaciers, Waytapallana—source of epistemic and ontological affirmation and renewal for the Indigenous people of this region. I am an educational researcher because of my connections to… -
Professor Troy Storfjell
Sámi
Pacific Lutheran University, USA
Professor and Director Native American and Indigenous Studies
Troy Storfjell (Sámi) specializes in Sámi and Indigenous studies, where his work is largely guided by Indigenist…
Professor Troy Storfjell
Troy Storfjell (Sámi) specializes in Sámi and Indigenous studies, where his work is largely guided by Indigenist criticism and decolonize methodologies. In his scholarship Troy works to create a place for Indigenous intellectual and philosophical traditions within the academy, bringing Sámi ways of knowing to bear on such topics as settler colonial literature, multicultural diversity and trans-Indigenous film studies. In his teaching Troy strives for a student-centered approach and for classrooms that can become collaborative learning communities. He teaches in Norwegian and Scandinavian Area…