Carleton Experts Available: National Indigenous History Month
June is National Indigenous History Month, and Carleton experts are available to discuss related topics.
If you are interested in speaking with the experts below, please feel free to reach out to them directly. If you require other assistance, please email Steven Reid, Media Relations Officer, at steven.reid3@carleton.ca.
For other experts, please visit the Carleton Experts Database: https://experts.carleton.ca/.
Philippe Boucher
PhD Candidate, Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University
Email: philippeboucher@cmail.carleton.ca
Boucher works with Indigenous communities in the field of criminal justice. His research focuses on the experiences of Indigenous Peoples in Canadian criminal courts. He explores how Indigenous legal traditions can contribute to the transformation of criminal justice.
He also acts as a Gladue report writer and justice advisor for Indigenous communities in the development of alternative justice initiatives. He is an instructor at the Université de Montréal, teaching courses concerning Indigenous Peoples and Criminal Justice. He is a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar 2025.
For more on Boucher, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/philippe-boucher
Jane Dickson
Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University
Email: jane.dickson@carleton.ca
Dickson’s research interests include First Nations and citizenship/membership, criminology, dispute resolution/restorative justice, and First Nations and traditional justice. She is an expert on Indigenous people and criminal justice and on Gladue and sentencing. She is a Gladue writer.
For more on Dickson, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/jane-dickson
Tracey P. Lauriault
Professor,School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University
Email: tracey.lauriault@carleton.ca
Lauriault is available to discuss Indigenous data governance.
Lauriault is a critical data studies scholar who works on open data, big data, open smart cities, open government, data sovereignty, data preservation and data governance. Her ongoing research includes disaggregated equity data, digital twins, intersectional approaches to data governance, data invisibilities and the history of the census. As a publicly engaged scholar, she mobilizes her research into data and technology policy in all sectors. As a data and technological citizen, she examines large and small complex systems with the hope of making them more just, inclusive, equitable and environmentally sustainable.
For more on Lauriault, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/tracey-p-lauriault
Alexandra Mallett
Professor,School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University
Email: alexandramallett@cunet.carleton.ca
Mallett is available to discuss the changing norms/ways of doing research between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and sustainable energy, particularly in northern Canada.
Mallett’s experience spans academia and the public sectors, working on the design, implementation and evaluation of energy, climate change and environmental policy. She has worked for the Canadian government (Natural Resources Canada and Environment Canada), an intergovernmental organization (the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C.), and academic institutions. Her research areas include an examination of the innovation, co-operation and adoption processes (including policies, actors and institutions) involved in sustainable energy technologies, especially in emerging economies, and Canada and the United States. A further line of research focuses on contemporary shifts involved in the governance of natural resources, with a particular focus on mining.
For more on Mallett, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/alexandra-mallett
Duncan McCue
Professor, School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University
Email: duncan.mccue@carleton.ca
McCue is Anishinaabe, a member of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation in southern Ontario.
McCue, an award-winning CBC broadcaster and leading advocate for fostering the connection between journalism and Indigenous communities. His work now focuses on Indigenous Journalism and (Story)telling.
In addition, McCue is working with Carleton colleagues to launch a new journalism skills certificate on the ground in Indigenous communities.
McCue was the host of Helluva Story on CBC Radio and was also the driving force behind Kuper Island, a remarkable eight-part podcast series on residential schools.
McCue was with CBC News for 25 years. In addition to hosting CBC Radio One’s Cross Country Checkup, he was a longstanding correspondent for CBC-TV’s flagship news show, The National.
Over the years, he developed a unique online resource, Reporting in Indigenous Communities, which inspired his latest work, a new textbook called Decolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities. McCue is also the author of The Shoe Boy: A Trapline Memoir, which recounts a season he spent in a hunting camp with a Cree family in northern Quebec as a teenager.
For more on McCue, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/duncan-mccue
Stephan Schott
Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University
Email: stephan.schott@carleton.ca
Schott’s research focuses on alternative energy and sustainable development in the Arctic, the economic impacts of mining on local communities and local business development, food security and the integration of traditional knowledge and science, behavioural experiments in common pool resource environments, energy strategies and carbon emission reduction programmes.
He believes that we need to act on a number of urgent issues, such as climate change, fish stock declines, food insecurity, and declining community well-being. His research closely involves end users such as communities, individual harvesters and local governments to come up with practical bottom-up solutions to pressing public policy issues.
For more on Schott, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/stephan-schott
Dale Spencer
Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University
Email: Dale.Spencer@carleton.ca
Spencer has done extensive research on the “Sixties Scoop,” the mass removal of Indigenous children (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) from their families and communities into the child welfare system between the late 1950s and 1980s. He researches responses to sexual violence, specifically non-governmental and police responses to sexual violence. His areas of interest include criminal justice responses to sexual violence, sex offences and offenders, critical approaches to children and youth, conceptions of homelessness and micro and macro approaches to violence.
For more on Spencer, visit: https://carleton.ca/law/people/dale-spencer/
Omeasoo Wahpasiw
Professor, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University
Email: OmeasooWahpasiw@cunet.carleton.ca
Wahpasiw is a nehiyaw iskwew living in Anishinabe territory.
Her research explores the ways in which Indigenous people have maintained their cultural and spatial heritage even while forced to inhabit architecture that follows colonial paradigms.
Wahpasiw co-wrote the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Women’s Commission submission to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People.
For more on Wahpasiw, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/omeasoo-wahpasiw
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