Anna Soer
Research Assistant
My name is Anna Soer. I am a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa in political science. My research focusses on renewable energy development in Nunavut, with special attention to community engagement, gender, and (epistemological) governance.
I am an international student in Canada, my mother coming from Brittany (France) and my father from Drenthe (the Netherlands), and I moved here in 2021. My life experiences as a migrant while having deep attachments to the lands of my parents inform my scholarship and how I relate to land governance and epistemology.
While I mostly devote my time to my thesis, other research areas include white supremacy and white femininity in a (historical and contemporary) settler colonial context, security in the Arctic, as well as circumpolar development and relations.
I currently live in Kingston, Ontario – homeland of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Huron-Wendat First Nations – with my wife, puppy, and two cats.