Carmen Robertson is the Canada Research Chair in North American Indigenous Visual and Material Culture in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. A Scots-Lakota professor of Art History, her research centres around contemporary Indigenous arts and constructions of Indigeneity in popular culture.
“I’m honoured to be part of Carleton’s Indigenous Strategic Initiatives Committee and look forward to supporting this important work,” says Robertson.
In 2016, Robertson published Norval Morrisseau: Art and Life and Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau: Art and the Colonial Narrative in the Canadian Media. Her essays have been published in numerous scholarly journals.
She is a member of the board of governors for the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada and the Norval Morrisseau Heritage Society.
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