François Bastien

Associate Professor; Associate Dean, Indigenous; Academic Director, MBA in Advancing Reconciliation
- Contact:
- Office: BEC 474 fbastien@uvic.ca 250-721-6071
- Credentials:
- BCom, Concordia University; MSc in Administration, Concordia University; PhD in Management, HEC Montreal
- Area of expertise:
- Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Knowledges, Indigenous organizing, decolonization, indigenization, reconciling forms of knowledge, social memory, temporality
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Biography
François Bastien’s story begins in Wendake. He is a member of the Huron-Wendat First Nation. He and his family now reside on the traditional lands of the WSÁNEĆ Peoples and are grateful for the opportunity to live and learn from those who have stewarded and protected the lands on which they now reside since time immemorial. He has worked for, lived in, played and developed relationships with many Indigenous Peoples and communities which have all contributed to his learning journey. While doing so, he has observed various incongruities between Indigenous ways of organizing and contemporary colonial models. Throughout his academic work in various Western post-secondary institutions, he has also noticed a shared struggle to decolonize and indigenize. Reconciliation for him means embarking on a mutually beneficial co-constructed journey of transformation and collaboration between Western and Indigenous worldviews; a road that is built and shared as opposed to being static and owned.
Teaching
Courses taught
- Decolonization and Reconciliation (MBA-AR)
- Capstone Project (MBA-AR)
- Indigenous Knowledges and Organization Studies (PhD)
Selected publications
Awards & grants
Recognition & awards
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2024 - Best Emerging Scholar Award: Academy of Management, Management History
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2024 - International Advisory Board (IAB) Community Engagement Award, Gustavson School of Business
- 2019 - Best Reviewer Award: Academy of Management Learning & Education
- 2018 - Outstanding Emerging Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Learning & Education
Grants
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Overcoming the impact of historical trauma on health outcomes for Indigenous populations: How an Indigenous led health care partnership can address the trauma of health care bureaucracy. Funded by CIHR (July 1, 2025 – July 1, 2029), $2,103,750
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Historical injustices and organizations: How higher education institutions (HEIs) produce, reproduce, and disrupt legacies of oppression and disadvantage. Funded by SSHRC - Insight Grant (July 1, 2022 - July 1, 2027), $397,427.00
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Commemoration and Indigenous organizing. Funded by SSHRC - Insight Grant (June 1, 2022 - June 1, 2027), $280,420.00
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Using the past to attract resources: Exploring strategic differences in Indigenous communities across Canada. Funded by SSHRC - Insight Development Grant (June 1, 2019 - May 31, 2021), $45,991.00