Morgan Mowatt

Assistant Professor
School of Child & Youth Care
Accepting graduate students
- Contact:
- morganmowatt@uvic.ca
- Credentials:
- BA (VIU), MA (UVic), PhD (UVic)
- Area of expertise:
- Indigenous sovereignty, law, authority Indigenous rights and governance Community-building, mutual aid, liberation Non-reformist reform
Biography
Noxs Sim maa’y (Lax Seel) is Gitxsan, from Gitanmaax, through their late father Jack Mowatt (Diihadixs). Their multidisciplinary scholarship takes two broad approaches to Indigenous sovereignty. The first is human and more-than-human focused, which engages the many ways we conceptualize and actualize Indigenous sovereignty from our lands, waters, spirits, bodies, nations, relationships and more. The second takes on Indigenous-state diplomacies and the ways in which Indigenous legal and political authority (as process) shapes and transforms future possibilities between Indigenous nations and non-Indigenous peoples and institutions. Their work takes the form of academic interventions, arts-based healing praxes, community-led and participatory research, and educational content creation, among others. Indigenous sovereignty and our shared, liberated futures are accountable to feminist, queer, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-ableist and anti-colonial ways of knowing and being, and they work to embed their scholarship and relationships within these frameworks.
Sample publications
Mowatt, M., Wildcat, M., & Starblanket, G. (2024). Indigenous Sovereignty and Political Science: Building an Indigenous Politics Subfield. Annual Review of Political Science, 27(1), 301–316. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-041322-050512
Mowatt, M., de Finney, S., Wright Cardinal, S., Mowatt, G., Tenning, J., Haiyupis, P., Gilpin, E., Harris, D., MacLeod, A., & Claxton, N. X. (2020). ȻENTOL TŦE TEṈEW̱ (together with the land): Part 1: Indigenous land- and water-based pedagogies. International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies IJCYFS, 11(3), 12–33. https://doi.org/10.18357/ijcyfs113202019696
de Finney, S., Wright Cardinal, S., Mowatt, M., Claxton, N. X., Alphonse, D., Underwood, T., Kelly, L., & Andrew, K. (2020). ȻENTOL TŦE TEṈEW̱ (together with the land) Part 2: Indigenous Frontline Practice as Resurgence. International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies IJCYFS, 11(3), 34–55. https://doi.org/10.18357/ijcyfs113202019698