Aboriginal/Indigenous Studies
 | Martin Cannon phone: (416) 978-0403 email: martin.cannon@utoronto.ca Department: Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education | |
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Academic History Ph.D., York University (Sociology) M.A., Queen’s University (Sociology) B.A., Wilfrid Laurier University (Sociology) Research Overview I am a citizen of the Oneida Nation of the Six Nations at Grand River Territory. My published work focuses on the complexity of challenges facing educators charged with decolonizing education and bringing Indigenous knowledge into the academy, as well as colonialism and racism, including sex discrimination in Canada’s Indian Act. I have been a long time advocate for legislative changes to colonial policy, and have worked with organizations like the Native Women’s Association of Canada, the Union of Ontario Indians, and the National Centre for First Nations Governance. I am co-author of the book Racism, Colonialism, and Indigeneity in Canada (with Dr Lina Sunseri) published with Oxford University Press (2011). I am sole author of the forthcoming book Undoing Citizenship Injustice: Racism, Sexism and Indian Status in Canada (reviewed and under revision, University of Toronto Press). Teaching Overview I teach the following graduate courses at OISE: SES 1931 Centering Indigenous-Settler Solidarity in Theory and Research SES 1930 Race, Indigenous Citizenship and Self-Determination: Decolonizing Perspectives Professional Activities SCHOLARLY SERVICE NOMINATIONS 2009-10 & 2005-06, Chair, Antiracism Subcommittee, Canadian Sociological Association INVITED KEYNOTE AND LECTURES 2013 Invited Speaker, Men, Masculinity, and the Indian Act in Canada, International Women’s Week 2013 (Decolonization), March, Nipissing University, Dept. of Gender Equality and Social Justice, North Bay, ON. 2012 Invited Speaker, Changing the Subject in Teacher Education, Transforming the Dialogue: Essential Conversations for Building Indigenous Cultural Competency in Health and Education, A Conference Led by the Provincial Health Services Authority of British Columbia, March, Vancouver, BC. 2012 Invited Speaker, Indigenous Men and Critical Race Feminism: Some Reflections on the Anti-Colonial, e-totamasoyahk (Our Way), A Conference on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Law-Making, March, University of Saskatachewan, Faculty of Law, Saskatoon, SK. 2011 Invited Speaker (Studies in National and International Development Speakers Series), Changing the Subject in Indigenous Education: Centering Indigenous, Diasporic, and Settler Colonial Relations, November, Queens University, Kingston, ON. 2011 Invited Presenter, Introduction for Stolen Sisters: A Documentary, March, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Toronto, ON. 2011 Invited Lecture, Undoing Citizenship Injustice: Stories of Belonging Across The Generations, Inclusion and Representation in Anishinabek Self-Government Conference, A Community-Led Conference Co-sponsored by the Anishinabek Nation, the MCRI Project on Indigenous Peoples and Governance, and the University of Toronto, January, Nipissing First Nation, ON. Representative Publications BOOKS 2013 Undoing Citizenship Injustice: Racism, Sexism and Indian Status in Canada. University of Toronto Press, reviewed and under revision. (200 pages) 2011 Racism, Colonialism, and Indigeneity in Canada, co-edited with Lina Sunseri, Oxford University Press, 2011. (284 pages)
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS (with inclusive page numbers) 2012 (accepted) “Race Matters: Sexism, Indigenous Sovereignty, and McIvor v. The Registrar.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law (27 pages). CHAPTERS IN BOOKS 2010 “Ruminations on Red Revitalization: Exploring Complexities of Identity, Difference, and Nationhood in Indigenous Knowledge Education.” (pgs. 127-141) In George Dei (ed.) Indigenous Philosophies and Critical Education, Peter Lang Publishing, 2011 (14 pages). Research Grants and Contracts 2012 Collaborator for a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant for the study “Building and Mobilizing Knowledge on Race and Colonialism in Canada” [$198,480] Awarded May 2012. 2006 Individual Contract with Department of Indian and Northern Development for the paper “Revisiting Histories of Legal Assimilation, Racialized Injustice, and the Future of Indian Status in Canada." 2006 Individual Contract with The National Centre for First Nations Governance for the Paper “Revisiting Histories of Gender-Based Exclusion and the New Politics of Indian Identity.” 2005 Principal Investigator for an Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre Partnership/Network Development Grant “Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges of Community-Based Health Research Advisory Boards.” Honours and Awards 2007 University of Toronto Connaught Fellowship |
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