Meet our faculty
Professor, Chair Department of Indigenous Education
Office: MAC A260 jpr@uvic.ca 250-721-7826
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Decolonizing education, Indigenous research methods and methodologies, Indigenizing teacher education, Indigenous knowledge, worldviews, cosmologies and epistemologies, Anishinaabe curriculum and pedagogy, Indigenous representation, Indigenous student post-secondary success, Indigenous knowledges in online learning
Assistant Teaching Professor Department of Indigenous Education
Office: MAC A257 cescraig@uvic.ca 250-721-7433
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Indigenous language revitalization, Urban Indigenous language learning, Community-driven language planning, Language and data sovereignty, Dialect variation and standardization, Adult Indigenous language learning, Task-based language teaching, Indigenous curriculum design, Universal Design for Learning, Accessible language learning, Language teacher education, Community-engaged research
Professor Department of Indigenous Education
Office: MAC A267 eczh@uvic.ca 250-721-6180
Assistant Professor Department of Indigenous Education
Office: MAC A261 belindadaniels@uvic.ca 250-721-7550
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Indigenous Language Revitalization, Indigenous education, Indigenous pedagogy, Immersion camps, land-based education, Indigenous language decolonial assessment and proficiency, Indigenous methodologies, applied linguistics, additional language methods
Assistant Professor Department of Indigenous Education
Accepting graduate students
Office: MAC A256 jerkel@uvic.ca 250-472-5285
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Indigenous education, Indigenous pedagogy, drama education, applied theatre, arts-based research, drama to address social justice, drama to support decolonization, drama with gatekeepers
Dr. Carmen Rodriguez de France
Associate Professor Department of Indigenous Education
Office: MAC A270 mcdr@uvic.ca 250-721-8633
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Indigenous education, diversity and social justice, second language acquisition, Indigenous early childhood education, teacher education, arts-based and place-based education, formal and non-formal education, community-engaged scholarship
Assistant Professor Department of Indigenous Education
Office: MAC A257 chuutsqa@uvic.ca 250-721-7826
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Indigenous language revitalization, reclamation, and maintenance, Knowledge co-creation, Indigenous methodologies, Indigenous data sovereignty, Indigenous language learning technologies, Land-based learning, Indigenous research, Indigenous archiving
Assistant Professor Department of Indigenous Education
Office: MAC A265 dmsmith@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Indigenous education, curriculum development, Indigenous governance and worldviews, nature and relationality, renewable energy, climate change, Indigenous self-determination, Indigenous community development
Associate Professor Department of Indigenous Education
Office: MAC A259 edosdi@uvic.ca 250-472-5499
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Indigenous research methodologies and community-based research, Indigenous language revitalization and reclamation, Indigenous language and health and wellbeing, Art as cultural reclamation, Ancestral knowledge systems, Indigenous curricula and pedagogy
Assistant Teaching Professor Department of Indigenous Education
Office: MAC A562 hvazquez@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Indigenous ways of knowing and being, music education, decolonizing and Indigenizing music education, Indigenous methodologies and methods, educational policy, epistemologies of the South
Adjunct faculty
- Megan Lukaniec
- Laurie Meijer-Drees
Emeritus faculty
Dr. Lorna Wanosts’a7 Williams
Dr. Lorna Wanosts’a7 Williams is an educator, scholar, filmmaker, and Indigenous elder known for her contributions to Indigenous language revitalization and Indigenous education. She is a member of Lilʼwat First Nation of Mount Currie, British Columbia and a Ucwalmícwts speaker. She is professor emerita at UVic where she was Canada Research Chair in Indigenous knowledge and learning in the faculties of Education and Linguistics. She is past chair of First Peoples' Cultural Council. She sits as an observer on UNESCO's Global Task Force for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages.