Faculty in the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies engage in research across a number of thematic areas, working across many disciplines, and many are cross-appointed to one or more other academic units at Carleton University. SICS faculty also provide leadership in key research initiatives at the university:
- Dr. Kahente Horn-Miller, Assistant Vice-President (Indigenous Teaching, Learning and Research) leads the Ānako Indigenous Research Institute.
- Dr. Carmen Robertson holds the Canada Research Chair in North American Indigenous Art and Material Culture in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, jointly appointed between the School for Studies in Art and Culture, the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture.
| Faculty | Research themes | Cross appointment(s) and affiliations |
| Kenneth Jake Chakasim | Indigenous Planning & Design; Sustainable Building Technologies; Urban and Rural Aboriginal Development; Design-Based Research and Pedagogy | Architecture and Urbanism |
| Jerzy Elżanowski | Warsaw; Memory, curation; Architecture; Heritage, conservation; Cartography; Architectural Heritage in Canada | Architecture and Urbanism; Carleton Centre for Public History; Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture; Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies |
| Jennifer Henderson | Settler Feminism and Race Making; Neoliberalism; Reconciliation; Settler-colonialism, settler-colonial modernity; Feminism; English-Canadian literature; Indigenous literature; Cultural studies | English Language and Literature; Institute of Political Economy; Sociology and Anthropology |
| Peter Hodgins | The politics and poetics of public memory in Canada; Canadian cultural nationalism; Canadian Cultural Studies; Cultural memory | Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture; Psychology; Carleton Centre for Public History |
| Kahente Horn-Miller | Mapping Kanienkeha, Kanienkehaka place names and associations with governance and women’s issues; Consensus-based, Indigenous and Haudenosaunee governance; Indigenous pedagogy and online teaching; Indigenous identity politics; Humour, storytelling, oral history; Indigenous womenism / women issues; Indigenous research methodologies; Indigenous rights and resurgence | Sociology and Anthropology; Ānako Indigenous Research Institute |
| Catherine Khordoc | Contemporary Québécois literature; “écriture migrante” and transnational writing; the works of Monique Bosco; francophone literature; transcultural writing; plurilingualism | French; Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture |
| Paul Litt | Huronia, 1939-1969, particularly settler-colonial cultural nationalist appropriation of Indigenous history; Canadian nationalisms; nationalism theory; Media and the politics of image in Canada; Canadian cultural policy | History; Carleton Centre for Public History |
| Andrés López | Indigenous and Black feminist theorizing and methodologies; Historiography, Cultural Rhetoric, and Queer Indigenous Two-Spirit Studies | Feminist Institute for Social Transformation |
| Eva Mackey | Canadian Studies – interdisciplinary; anthropology of space/ place/ land studies; identity/ power/ representation; feminist theory/gender/sexuality; Decolonization — aboriginal-settler state relations; anthropology of conflict, land rights, law and citizenship; National identity, multiculturalism, race in settler nations; post-colonial theory/ cultural studies/critical race theory; research methodology; anthropology of public issues; political anthropology – colonialism, neoliberalism – policy/law; politics of risk/uncertainty/neo-liberalism; law and society | English Language and Literature; Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies; Journalism |
| Richard Nimijean | Canada and the world; Canada – U.S. relations; Nation branding; Critical nationalism | FASS Research Centre in American Studies |
| Carmen Robertson | Norval Morrisseau; Woodlands School of Indigenous art; Beading; Curation/curatorial work; Indigenous arts history and aesthetics | Studies in Art and Culture; Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture |
| Susan Ross | Waste, deconstruction and heritage values; Sustainable heritage conservation theory and policy; Modern building technology history and conservation; Twentieth-century housing history; Modern and industrial buildings, infrastructure and landscapes; University campus architecture and conservation; Urban environmental /landscape / parks history; Montreal and Quebec heritage conservation; Canadian conservation and environmental policy and practice; Heritage conservation theory and practices in Germany | Architecture and Urbanism; Carleton Immersive Media Studio; Carleton Centre for Public History |
| Sophie Tamas | Trauma; Autoethnography; Research methods; Interdisciplinary critical qualitative research methods and ethics; Emotional geographies of academic spaces and practices; Feminist, Indigenous, post-qualitative, new materialist and trauma-informed approaches to subjectivity and knowledge; Personal narrative and creative arts at the intersection of academic, aesthetic, and therapeutic discourses; Feminist, arts-based and Indigenous pedagogies | Geography and Environmental Studies; Feminist Institute for Social Transformation |
| Peter Thompson | The politics and poetics of public memory in Canada; Canadian cultural nationalism; Canadian Cultural Studies; Cultural memory | English Language and Literature |
| Julie Tomiak | Settler colonial cities; Indigenous resistance, resurgence; Neoliberalization; Indigenous cities; decolonization; land reclamation; urban reserves, settler statecraft, racial capitalism; urban Indigenous governance; political economy | Geography and Environmental Studies; Institute of Political Economy; Sociology/Anthropology |
| Anne Trépanier | Critical nationalism; Quebec studies; Language politics in Canada; Pedagogy, online pedagogy; Intercultural mediation; Museum narratives; Early Christianism and syncretism | French; History; Carleton Centre for Public History |
| Omeasoo Wahpasiw | Knowledge translation with Tla’amin; Mistussin; Tla’amin Historical practices regarding death and grief; Indigenous Art and Activism in the late 20th Century | Architecture and Urbanism; History |