Samuel Mickelson
Ph.D. Candidate
| Degrees: | BA (McGill), MLIS (UBC), MA (Carleton) |
| Email: | samuelmickelson@cmail.carleton.ca |
Current Program:
Ph.D. History (2022)
Supervisors:
Dr. Michel Hogue
Academic Interests:
Canadian history, settler colonialism, Indigenous studies, environmental history, Historical GIS, borderlands, migration, digital humanities, archives
Select Publications and Current Projects:
Adelson, Naomi, and Samuel Mickelson. “The Miiyupimatisiiun Research Data Archives Project: Putting OCAP® Principles into Practice.” Digital Library Perspectives 38, no. 4 (2022): 508-520. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-11-2021-0099.
Adelson, Naomi, Samuel Mickelson, and Joshua J. Kawapit. “The Miiyupimatisiiun Research Data Archives Project: Co-developing an Indigenous Data Repository.” KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies 5, no. 1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.18357/kula.138.
Mickelson, Samuel. “The Akikodjiwan Historical Webmap: Employing Digital Mapping Methods to Study Settler Colonialism in the Ottawa Valley from 1800 to 1867.” MA Major Research Essay, Carleton University, 2022.
Mickelson, Samuel. “When Reconciliation Meets Conflict: Exploring Indigenous Archives.” See Also: The UBC iSchool Student Journal No. 3 (2017). https://doi.org/10.14288/sa.v0i3.188940
Select Conference Contributions:
Arias-Hernandez, Richard, Samuel Mickelson, and Lisa P. Nathan. “Disrupting the System: Decolonizing Digital Collections within Colonial Structures?” Poster presented at UBC iSchool Research Day 2017, Vancouver, BC, March 2017. https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0343325
Mickelson, Samuel. “A Contested Site: Akikodjiwan and Settler Colonialism in the Ottawa Valley from 1800 to 1867.” Presentation delivered at Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, March 2022.
Mickelson, Samuel, and Naomi Adelson. “The Stewardship of Indigenous Cultural Memory: Building a Collaborative Approach to Data Management, Access, and Ownership.” Conference presentation delivered online for The Archives Association of Ontario Conference 2020, May 2020.
Teaching Experience:
Teaching Assistant, Conflict and Change in Early Canada HIST 1301 (J. St. Germain), Fall 2023
Teaching Assistant, Medieval Europe HIST 2000 (S. Keeshan), Fall 2022, Winter 2022, Fall 2021
Description of Research:
Samuel’s SSHRC-funded research project “Akikodjiwan and Settler Colonialism in the Ottawa Valley from 1763 to 1900” explores the overlapping histories of settler colonialism and Algonquin dispossession at Akikodjiwan (the Chaudière Falls) from 1763 to 1900. While 1763 marks the signing of the Royal Proclamation, 1900 marks the beginning of the twentieth century by which time the landscape of Akikodjiwan had been drastically transformed by the forces of settler colonialism. All this time, however, the Algonquin peoples of the Ottawa Valley never ceded ownership over the lands and waterways of Akikodjiwan and the wider region nor have they to this day
This research builds on Samuel’s master’s project entitled “The Akikodjiwan Historical Webmap: Employing Digital Mapping Methods to Study Settler Colonialism in the Ottawa Valley from 1800 to 1867.” Key research questions include: how did the ideologies and practices of settler colonialism work to reshape the landscape of Akikodjiwan from 1763 to 1900? In what ways might HGIS methods shed light on the changes that occurred at Akikodjiwan during this period? And how might the findings of this research be employed to support anticolonial agendas such as Algonquin territorial sovereignty and cultural resurgence?