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Martin Cannon

phone: (416) 978-0403
email: martin.cannon@utoronto.ca  

Department: Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education



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 “Changing the Subject in Teacher Education: Centering Indigenous, Diasporic, and Settler Colonial Relations.” Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry 4(2): 21-37 (17 pages).

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


Aboriginal/Indigenous Studies
  • Christine Connelly
  • Jamie Magnusson
  • Lance McCready
  • Matthew James Tran-Adams
  • Shahrzad Mojab
  • Sherene Razack
  • Ai-Ri Brown
  • Ann Lopez
  • Cameron Greensmith
  • Indigo Esmonde
  • Martin Cannon
  • Rob Simon
  • Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez
  • Bruce Small
  • Gender & Queer Studies Teacher Education & Development (including ITE and Induction)
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