Our people
Program director
Indigenous Studies
(Kanaka Maoli) Lisa Kahaleole Hall is the director of Indigenous Studies at UVic. She received an MA and PhD in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. She graduated with a BA cum laude in Women’s Studies from Yale University. Her research and teaching interests include the intersections of race, colonialism, and indigeneity with gender and sexuality.
Office: Clearihue A309
Professor
Indigenous Studies
(Cherokee Nation) Jeff Ganohalidoh Corntassel received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Arizona in 1998. Corntassel’s research and teaching interests focus on “Everyday Acts of Resurgence” and the intersections between Indigenous internationalism, community resurgence, climate change, gender, and community well-being.
Office: CLE B304 | Office hrs:
Assistant professor
Indigenous Studies
(nuučaańuł) Rachel yacaaʔał George received her PhD in Indigenous Governance from the University of Victoria. She specializes in Indigenous politics—particularly on Indigenous conceptions of justice and their intersections with projects of reconciliation. Her current areas of research include coastal Indigenous governance, relationality, resurgence, and storytelling.
On Leave
Office: CLE B305 | Office hrs:
Assistant professor
Indigenous Studies
(Huron-Wendat Nation) Megan received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include Indigenous language reclamation and revitalization, language documentation, lexicography, language contact, and language change. Her teaching interests include various topics related to Indigenous languages and their reclamation.
Office: CLE B302 | Office hrs: by appt
Assistant Teaching Professor
Indigenous Studies
(Kwakwaka'wakw/Snuneymuxw) Mick is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria. His work focuses on revitalizing Indigenous fatherhood and family-based resurgence.
Office: CLE A305 | Office hours: Thursday 1 - 2pm
Assistant Teaching Professor
Indigenous Studies
W̱SÁNEĆ Matriarch Dr. Tracy Underwood, Assistant Teaching Professor in Indigenous Studies. Tracy upholds daily her Matriarchal duties of protecting and preserving Children, Land, Language and Culture of her people. Tracy is an expert in land-based learning, history, storytelling, ethics and care for children, families and communities. She can discuss issues of land occupancy, the doctrine of discovery and how ongoing land dispossession negatively impacts herself and her husband, her eight children and eleven grandchildren in their daily lives. As a part of her PhD ȽÁU, NOṈET SXEDQIṈEȽ framework, Tracy does a presentation that is called “JÁEȽNOṈET”.
Office: CLE A307 | Office hrs: Thursday 4 - 5pm
Assistant Professor
Indigenous Studies
(Métis Canadian - Scottish, Cree and Ojibwe of the Red River) Pamela received her PhD at UVic. She is an ethnobotanist, and her research examines dimensions of Indigenous people’s relationships with plants, ecosystems, resource stewardship, Indigenous feminism, Indigenous legal orders, and customary legal landscapes.
Office: CLE A303
Ryan Ryan
Administrative Assistant
Indigenous Studies
(Tahltan)
Office: CLE A311 | Office hours: Mon-Th 9:00-3:00