Researchers and scholars with Indigenous focus
Peter B. Gustavson School of Business
Judith Sayers is the newly appointed Visiting National Chair on Aboriginal Economic Development (NAEDC). This position is a joint appointment in the law and business faculties. Sayers is well known for her work in economic development.
Sayers has been an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law and an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business. In her new role as the visiting chair, Judith will continue to teach cross-listed courses in both faculties, as well as organize a symposium on Aboriginal economic development and engage in other chair-related activities in British Columbia and across Canada.
Sayers will be working closely with students and faculty members to raise awareness of issues and challenges related to Aboriginal economic development and its impact on the financial and social well-being of First Nations communities throughout Canada. She will contribute her considerable knowledge and experience to the university's ongoing research in this field.
Ana Maria Peredo, associate professor, sustainable entrepreneurship and international business; director, Centre for Co-operative Based Economy (CCBE)
Dr. Peredo is a leading researcher in the field of community-based entrepreneurship, sustainable development and the alleviation of poverty. She conducts research and teaches in the areas of Indigenous peoples and development issues.
Faculty of Social Sciences
Michael I. Asch, adjunct professor, Department of Anthropolocy
Dr. Asch's particular interests lie in issues pertaining to Indigenous rights, particularly in Canada. He has a strong interest in the historiography of Anthropology, and of the political philosophical thought with which the history of the discipline is associated.
Current research concerns aspects of treaty relations in Canada both historically and at present. He is concerned in recovering the shared understanding between the partners and how the terms of treaties have been implemented.
His research in historiography focuses on the political location of anthropologists in Canada and the United States with respect to issues of political relations with Indigenous peoples within those countries. It engages in particular with questions about the roles that anthropologists have played in issues of colonialism, particularly with respect to the stances they took (and are taking) in opposition to colonial rule.
Stephen Cross, associate professor, Department of Geography
Dr. Cross is director of the UVic Coastal Aquaculture Research and Training (CART) Network, an intra-institutional collaboration of departments (and researchers) that is facilitating a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach in addressing the issues associated with temperate and tropical aquaculture development.
Recipient of a BC Innovation Award and the Research Domain Lead on a five-year, pan-Canadian NSERC Strategic Network, Cross' current research program focuses on the environmental and socio-economic aspects of Integrated, Multi-Tropic Aquaculture (IMTA) systems.
This form of aquaculture (polyculture), while rooted in centuries of practice in Asia, has only recently been considered as a potential commercial process in the world of modernized agri-food production. IMTA systems, by definition, are designed so as to capitalize on the organic/inorganic waste streams associated with a "fed" aquaculture component (fish), with waste particulates used to support a filtration component (shellfish) and the dissolved nutrient fractions used by kelps or seaweeds.
This research is being conducted at a dedicated IMTA farm site being developed off the northwest coast of Vancouver Island, representing the first licensed facility of its kind in Canada. A complementary area of CART research is also underway, exploring the integration of the scientific, ecosystem-based approach to farm regulation with First Nation Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) – the goal being to develop a non-confrontational coastal zone management framework for aquaculture in British Columbia.
Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, assistant professor, Department of Political Science
A Turtle Mountain Ojibwe, Stark's research interests include Indigenous comparative politics, Indigenous diplomacy and treaty relations, Indigenous law and governance, and US/Canadian Indigenous law and policy.
Quentin Mackie, associate professor, Department of Anthropology
Dr. Mackie’s areas of research include:
- archaeology
- coastal archaeology
- lithic & organic technologies
- environmental archaeology
- first peopling processes
- spatial modeling
- social context of archaeology
- Northwest Coast
- Haida Gwaii
Working in collaboration with Parks Canada archaeologists, they have found or excavated a series of sites in Haida Gwaii. These early sites are changing our thoughts on the earliest occupation of Haida Gwaii, the Northwest Coast and the Americas.
As Ancestral Haida people were very fluent in marine resource use and had organic technologies so early adds credence to the notion that the earliest humans in the Americas may have travelled down the west coast, rather than through an interior, "ice free" corridor. The cave sites are the earliest archaeological sites in British Columbia and among the earliest coastal sites north of California. They show human occupation at a time of extreme environmental change, which attests to the resilience of these early coastal adaptations.
Karena Shaw, associate professor, School of Environmental Studies
Dr. Shaw researches Indigenous politics in/and environmental conflicts. Publications include "Indigenous Rights and Environmental Governance: Lessons from the Great Bear Rainforest” (co-authored with Margaret Low) BC Studies, 2011 and Indigeneity and Political Theory: Sovereignty and the Limits of the Political (Routledge, 2008).
Brian Thom, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology
Thom’s research areas include:
- cultural anthropology
- Aboriginal rights and title
- intellectual property and Indigenous peoples
- collaboration and parks
- Aboriginal governance
- applying anthropology to public policy
- customary legal systems
- landscape, nature, and studies of place
- oral narrative and life history of the Northwest Coast and Coast Salish peoples
Nancy Turner, professor, School of Environmental Studies, Hakai Chair of Ethnoecology
Dr. Turner is an ethnobotanist, ethnoecologist and professor in the School of Environmental Studies. She started learning about Indigenous peoples and plants as an undergraduate student at UVic in 1968, working with Saanich First Nations elders.
Turner's doctoral work at UBC concentrated on plant classification systems of Haida, Nuxalk (Bella Coola) and Stl'atl'imx (Lillooet) peoples. Her major research contributions have been in demonstrating the pivotal role of plant resources in past and contemporary aboriginal cultures and languages, as an integral component of traditional knowledge systems, and how traditional management of plant resources has shaped the landscapes and habitats of western Canada.
Andrea Walsh, associate professor, Department of Anthropology
Walsh's areas of research include:
- visual anthropology
- visual culture and theory
- visual research methods
- art, photography, film & new media
- museum studies
- 20th century and contemporary First Nations visual culture
- Canada
Wendy Wickwire, associate professor, School of Environmental Studies
Dr. Wickwire holds a cross appointment between the Department of History and the School of Environmental Studies. Her main research interests are:
- oral history
- Aboriginal history
- environmental history
- British Columbia ethno-history
- the early history of anthropology in North Western North America
Faculty of Science
Asit Mazumder, NSERC Industry Research Chair and professor, Department of Biology
Dr. Mazumder's research interests include ecosystem and watershed ecology of freshwater and marine ecosystems. A major interest has always been to link fundamental ecological sciences to aquatic resource management, and sustainable clean and healthy water for public health and safety.
Mazumder's research on nutrient-foodweb ecology looks at the processes and factors linking climatological, chemical and biological variability with foodweb ecology, growth and survival of salmonid fish in freshwater and marine ecosystems. He works in partnership with several regional water departments and over 60 communities in BC, QC and NL, and several Aboriginal communities across Canada, developing sciences and decision-making tools to reduce microbial and chemical health risks in source and tap water through best land- and water-use practices, optimization of disinfection byproducts and through tracking sources of microbial and chemical contamination of source water.
Current research interest is also on the quality of water in the rural and slump communities in under-developed countries like Bangladesh, Haiti and Cambodia, where he is testing how access to safe household water leads to improved health and childhood education.
Faculty of Humanities
Sonya Bird, assistant professor, Department of Linguistics, and director of the Linguistics Speech Research Laboratory
Dr. Bird's main area of interest lies in phonetics-phonology. Her dissertation centered on the phonetics and phonology of intervocalic consonants in the Lheidi dialect of Dakelh (Carrier), an Athapaskan language spoken in British Columbia.
Her post-doctoral studies at UBC were in the phonetic properties of glottalised resonant in St’at’imcents (Lillooet), an Interior Salish language spoken in British Columbia. Currently, Bird's research focuses on phonetic variability, and the extent to which it is linguistically meaningful.
Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins, associate professor, Department of Linguistics
Dr. Czaykowska-Higgins’ primary language research involves Salish languages of the west coast of North America. She co-edited the first book devoted solely to the study of Salish Languages. She has also written on the phonology, morphology and syntax of Salish languages, focusing on Nxa’amxcin and North Straits (SENĆOŦEN), and is currently engaged in a long-term project to create a web-accessible Nxa’amxcin dictionary and database.
Her community-engaged work has included projects on ethical issues in linguistic fieldwork, on community-based language research methodology in linguistics, on policies and practices in evaluating community-engaged scholarship, and on language revitalization.
Since 2003 she has been active in supporting the development and delivery of the Certificate in Aboriginal Language Revitalization and the Indigenous Language Revitalization programs.
Alexandra D’Arcy, assistant professor, Department of Linguistics
Dr. D'Arcy is the director of the newly formed sociolinguistics lab at the University of Victoria. She is a sociolinguist by training and specializes in the study of language variation and change.
Her research combines quantitative modeling with her interests in theoretical linguistics. She has presented and published on lexical, phonological, syntactic, morphosyntactic, and discourse-pragmatic variation and change, both synchronically and more recently, historically.
Dr. D'Arcy's research centers on English, and she has worked on a range of varieties (national, regional, social, and ethnic). She is currently engaged in a number of collaborative projects with researchers in Canada, England, and New Zealand. These projects examine a range of research questions, from acoustic analysis and description to the social reflexes of syntactic variation.
Her interests draw from a range of linguistic subfields and are driven by her focus on principled, accountable, and theoretically relevant explanation. The overarching theme of her work concerns the operation of the variable grammar (linguistic and social conditions on variability, development, embedding, globalization, localization).
John Lutz, professor, Department of History
Dr. Lutz's research areas include history of the Pacific Northwest, history of Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relations, and European colonialism in the pacific.
Since starting teaching at UVic, he has developed community-based research projects, particularly through the Coasts Under Stress project. There he worked in the First Nations communities of Hartley Bay and Alert Bay. He co-teaches the Ethnohistory Field School Course every other year with the Sto:lo First Nation.
Dr. Lutz has also developed an interest in history and the new media and serves as co-director of the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History and director or partner in several history-oriented website projects.
Christine O’Bonsawin, assistant professor, Department of History and director, Indigenous Studies Program
Dr. O'Bonsawin's research areas include:
- Indigenous sport
- sport history
- Olympic history
- Indigenous policy
- Indigenous research methods/methodologies
- history of anthropology
- British Columbia, Canada
Leslie Saxon, associate professor, Department of Linguistics
Dr. Saxon has carried out research with colleagues at the University of British Columbia, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the University of Toronto, the Dogrib Community Services Board, the Traditional Knowledge Research Group of the Dogrib Treaty 11 Council, and on community literacy projects with staff of Aurora College (Yellowknife).
Since 2006 she has participated as a resource person in the community teacher education programs developed jointly by the Tłįchǫ Community Services Agency, the Tłįchǫ Nation, and Aurora College. Saxon has been involved with program development at the University of Victoria in the areas of applied linguistics and Indigenous language revitalization and maintenance.
Christopher Teuton, associate professor, Department of English
Teuton is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and teaches Indigenous Literature, Multicultural Literature, and American Literature.
He is author of Deep Waters: the Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature (University of Nebraska Press, 2010) as well as co-editor and co-author of Reasoning Together: the Native Critics Collective (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008).
Teuton spent 2009-10 as the Katrin H. Lamon Fellow at the School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he completed Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club, a collection of contemporary Cherokee oral traditional stories. Dr. Teuton recorded and transcribed these stories with four of his Elders from the Cherokee Nation and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians (under advance contract with the University of North Carolina Press). Teuton is currently working as a consultant with the Cherokee Nation to develop a Cherokee Nation K–12 education curriculum.
Suzanne Urbanczyk, associate professor, Department of Linguistics
Urbanczyk held a post-doctoral research position at the University of British Columbia. During these years she had the opportunity to study sound patterns and some word-formation processes first hand in the Salish languages Ayajuthem (Mainland Comox), St’at’imcets (Lillooet), Halkomelem and the Wakashan language Nuu-chah-nulth.
She is interested in and dedicated to studying Salish and Wakashan languages and has worked in a few communities on various language revitalization projects in addition to documenting and understanding the organization of sound systems and word structures.
Faculty of Education
David de Rosenroll, assistant professor, Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies
Dr. de Rosenroll’s research interests include Indigenous healing approaches.
Anne Marshall, chair, Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies
Dr. Marshall's research projects include life transitions in emerging adulthood, life-career planning with youth (including Aboriginal youth), possible selves mapping, youth health and injury prevention, and identity issues.
She has been invited to Thailand and the The People's Republic of China to lecture and consult with colleagues regarding issues and interventions for life-career education and counselling.
Helen Raptis, associate professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Raptis' scholarly and professional interests include:
- social and historical foundations of education in British Columbia
- multicultural/anti-racist education
- teacher education secondary
- education policy studies
- Indigenous and minority education
- school effectiveness and school improvement
Ted Riecken, dean, Faculty of Education and professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Riecken's teaching and research interests include the use of digital media as tools for learning, especially in the area of social studies. Other research interests focus on Indigenous education and community-based research with First Nations students.
Maria Carmen Rodriguez de France, assistant professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Indigenous Education
Carmen’s most recent research interests centre on Indigenous curriculum development and pedagogy, and Indigenous epistemologies. Additionally, scholarly-related interests include early childhood education focusing on the influence of bilingualism and heritage language on identity development.
Michele Tanaka, assistant professor, Teacher Education
Tanaka’s teaching and research interests with pre-service teachers include transformative inquiry, reflexive practice, cross-cultural understanding, receptive mentoring, holistic learning, and indigenous education.
Lorna Williams, assistant professor, Canada Research Chair, Indigenous knowledge and learning
All her life Lorna Williams has lived within the sheltering embrace of her Lil’wat community and the traditions of her people. Now, as the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Knowledge and Learning, she is guided by their spirits in her efforts to assert and promote Indigenous perspectives and values within the traditions of teaching and learning in Canada.
Williams’ research in the area of teacher development and collaborative learning has changed how science is taught in BC schools, bringing traditional Aboriginal knowledge to classrooms. Williams’ studies are advancing our understanding of Indigenous perspectives on language and learning, and providing the inspiration for innovative curriculum design in schools and universities.
Faculty of Human and Social Development
Jessica Ball, professor, School of Child and Youth Care
Ball's areas of research include cultural ecologies of child development; Indigenous children and families; early childhood care and development; father involvement; community-based research partnerships and early childhood development intercultural partnerships.
Beginning in 2002, Dr. Ball mounted a program of research exploring several aspects of Indigenous Early Childhood Development and developmentally oriented early childhood care programs. Reflecting the collaboration of many First Nations community partners in this research, the program of research is called "Early Childhood Development Intercultural Partnerships." The majority of the research to date focuses on questions raised by First Nations communities and agencies in Canada.
Leslie Brown, professor, School of Social Work and associate dean of research, Faculty of Human and Social Development
Brown teaches research at undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research interests include Aboriginal governance and community practice, liberatory research methods and child welfare. She is a principal investigator with the Indigenous Child Welfare Research Network.
Jeannine Carriere, associate professor, Indigenous Governance
Carriere is Metis, originally from the Red River area of southern Manitoba. Her research interests center on adoption, identity and Aboriginal children. She has several publications on the topic of adoption and Aboriginal children including her 2010 manuscript "Aski Awasis, Children of the Earth: First Peoples Speaking on Adoption," Fernwood Publishers, Winnipeg. Her other research interests include Indigenous child and family practice and policy, Indigenous ways of knowing and cultural safety planning for Indigenous children and families.
Jeff Corntassel (Cherokee Nation), associate professor and graduate adviser, Indigenous Governance
Corntassel's research and teaching interests include global Indigenous rights and Indigenous political mobilization/self-determination movements.
In 2008 Corntassel was awarded the Faculty of Human and Social Development Award for Teaching Excellence. His first book, entitled Forced Federalism: Contemporary Challenges to Indigenous Nationhood (2008, University of Oklahoma Press), examines how Indigenous nations in the US have mobilized politically as they encounter new threats to their governance from state policymakers.
His next book is a co-edited volume (with Professor Tom Holm) entitled The Power of Peoplehood: Regenerating Indigenous Nations (forthcoming, University of Texas Press). It brings together native scholars from Canada and the US to discuss contemporary strategies for revitalizing Indigenous communities.
Other works in progress focus on notions of sustainable self-determination, practicing insurgent education, and a comparative critique of state apologies/truth and reconciliation efforts as they impact Indigenous nations in Canada, Australia, Guatemala and Peru.
Sandrina de Finney, associate professor, School of Child and Youth Care
de Finney's research areas include:
- processes of racialization and youth identities
- Aboriginal, ethnic minority and immigrant youth and youth of colour
- youth participation in practice and research
- community development and community-based practice
Jacquie Green Kundoque, associate professor, School of Social Work
Kundoque (Jacquie Green) is from the Haisla Nation. She is currently working on a PhD through the Faculty of Human and Social Development. Her PhD focus includes an analysis of traditional teachings (Nuyuum) implemented within leadership, practices standards and policy.
Committed to decolonization and cultural renewal, her research interests involve strategizing programs and policies that incorporate a strong Indigenous focus and analysis. She currently is a project manager for the Indigenous Child Welfare Research Network through the faculty of Human and Social Development.
Budd Hall, professor and director, Office of Community-Based Research, School of Public Administration
Dr. Hall's research areas include approaches to community-based research, community-university research partnerships, and social movement learning.
Marcia Hills, professor, School of Nursing
Dr. Hills' areas of interest include health promotion; curriculum development; family health; participatory action research; international health.
Her research has included recommendations on improving health services for Aboriginal people living with substance use, hepatitis and HIV/AIDS.
Alan Pence, professor, School of Child and Youth Care
Dr/ Pence’s research areas include early childhood education, care and development (ECCD); Indigenous and International ECCD; and ECCD leadership promotion and capacity building in majority world settings.
He was the recipient of UVic’s inaugural Craigdarroch Research Award recipient for Societal Contribution; the Canadian Bureau of International Development’s Leadership Award; and was a finalist for the World Innovation Summit in Education (WISE) Award. He is the UNESCO Chair for Early Childhood Education, Care and Development.
Charlotte Reading, professor, School of Public Health and Social Policy
Reading has conducted research and published in the areas of Aboriginal health, Aboriginal HIV/AIDS, social determinants of Aboriginal health, cultural safety, cancer among Aboriginal peoples, Aboriginal ethics and research capacity building as well as the sexual and reproductive health of Aboriginal women.
She is the chair of the CIHR-Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health - Aboriginal Health Research Network Secretariat, co-chair of the CIHR-Institute of Infection and Immunity - Community-Based HIV Research Steering Committee and a member of the advisory board of the (PHAC) National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health.
Dr. Jeffrey Reading, director, Centre for Aboriginal Health Research and professor, School of Public Health and Social Policy
Reading is a Mohawk from southern Ontario. Understanding and improving the state of the health of Aboriginal people in Canada is a lifelong pursuit of his. For more than two decades, Reading has dedicated his energy to enhancing knowledge and focus on the importance of Aboriginal health issues in Canadian society.
As an epidemiologist, Reading's research has brought attention to such critical issues as disease prevention, tobacco use and misuse, healthy living, accessibility to health care, and diabetes among Aboriginal people in Canada.
Catherine Richardson, assistant professor, School of Social Work
Richardson teaches in the Indigenous specialization in master's and undergraduate courses. Her areas of interest include Indigenous resistance, decolonizing and social justice approaches to social work and the helping professions.
She is involved in the advancement of response-based practice as an approach to helping people recover from violence. She is interested in dignity-based child protection work and is exploring the intersections between Indigenous values, family therapy, representations through language in relation to child protection and community wellness. She is interested in scholarship that is centred around cultural, ecological and spiritual integrity.
Gerald Taiaiake Alfred, professor, Indigenous Governance and Department of Political Science
Taiaiake specializes in studies of traditional governance, the restoration of land-based cultural practices, and decolonization strategies.
A Bear Clan Mohawk, he was born in Montréal in 1964 and raised in the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory. Aside from his service in the US Marine Corps as an infantryman during the 1980s, he lived in Kahnawake until 1996.
He now lives on Snaka Mountain in Wsanec Nation Territory on the Saanich peninsula with his wife and three sons, who are all Laksilyu Clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation.
Robina Thomas, associate professor, School of Social Work
Qwul'sih'yah'maht (Robina Thomas) is Lyackson of the Coast Salish Nation. Robina holds a BSW, MSW and a PhD in Indigenous Governance. She is committed to Indigenous education and her research interests include storytelling, residential schools and Uy'skwuluwun: On Being Indigenous.
She is committed to understanding anti-racism and anti-oppression and how these can be "lived."
Waziyatawin, associate professor, Indigenous Peoples Research Chair, Indigenous Governance
Waziyatawin is a Wahpetunwan Dakota from the Pezihutazizi Otunwe (Yellow Medicine Village) in southwestern Minnesota. Her interests include projects centering on Indigenous decolonization strategies such as truth-telling and reparative justice, Indigenous women and resistance, the recovery of Indigenous knowledge, and the development of liberation ideology in Indigenous communities.
Waziyatawin is the author or editor of five volumes including: Remember This!: Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives; Indigenizing the Academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities; For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook; In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: The Dakota Commemorative Marches of the 21st Century; and her most recent volume, What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland.
Faculty of Law
Deborah L. Curran, Hakai Professor, Environmental Law and Sustainability
Curran’s areas of research include water law, growth management and land use law, food systems, and the common ownership of property. As a municipal lawyer who focuses on sustainability issues, Curran provides legal advice to community organizations and local governments throughout BC.
Chris Tollefson, Professor, Faculty of Law
Tollefson is the inaugural Hakai Chair in Environmental Law and Sustainability. This new five-year appointment, effective July 1, 2011, recognizes and supports his leadership role as founding executive director of the UVic Environmental Law Centre (ELC). It will also facilitate collaboration with the newly-created Hakai Beach Institute (located on Calvert Island on BC's Central Coast), other members of the Hakai Research Network and ELC clients on the BC Coast.
Tollefson's research interests span a range of environmental and resource management issues, including trade and environment, community forestry and forest certification, the interplay between Aboriginal rights/title and environmental protection, access to justice in environmental decision-making, coastal zone management, public interest litigation and clinical legal education. His work has been published in scholarly journals in Canada, the United States and Europe, and includes several books.
Jeremy Webber, professor of Law
Professor Webber holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Society. He is widely recognized as an exceptional law and society scholar in the areas of cultural diversity, constitutional theory and indigenous rights.
Prior to joining the faculty he was dean of law at the University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. He is the author of Reimagining Canada: Language, Culture, Community and the Canadian Constitution (1994).
Division of Medical Sciences
Laura Arbour, affiliate associate professor, Division of Medical Sciences; associate professor, Department of Medical Genetics, UBC
Dr. Arbour’s clinical practice and research focuses on northern and Indigenous health issues as they pertain to genetics. Trained as both pediatrician and clinical geneticist (McGill University), her work as a clinician investigator integrates maternal-child health issues and the understanding of the genetic component to Aboriginal health of all ages. Dr. Arbour is currently also the clinical lead for medical genetics in the Department of Laboratory Medicine for the Vancouver Island Health Authority.
Brian Christie, Division of Medical Sciences
Christie is the director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program at UVic and studies learning and memory processes in the brain. His laboratory employs a sophisticated array of electrophysiological, immunohistochemical, molecular and behavioral research methods to elucidate learning and memory mechanisms.
Researchers in his laboratory use animal models of disorders that include: Alzheimer's disease; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD); Fragile-X Syndrome; Huntington's Chorea; and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) to understand how these neuropathologies influence the structure and function of brain areas associated with learning and memory.
Christie's work is geared to develop treatments for humans suffering from these disorders. He is currently conducting a study to evaluate a potential therapy for FASD in children. He is also interested in developing procedures for evaluating the severity of concussions in sports, and enhancing the development of visual perception in young athletes.