Graduate Student Supervision

I am not currently taking on any new supervisory roles for graduate students.

graduateS (14)

Nadia Drissi El-Bouzaidi (completed April 2026)

• 699 Project: Eliminatory Policing Logics in the Era of Reconciliation: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Harper and Trudeau

Irina Borgos (completed March 2026)

• 699 Project: Potential Effects of Chronic Wasting Disease in Cervids on Indigenous Food Sovereignty

• Irina is a Housing Policy Coordinator for the Musqueam Indian Band

Megan Roxby (completed June 2025)

• 699 Project: “We’re Fighting for Our Future”: Navigating Cross-Jurisdictional Complexity in Establishing Indigenous-led Conservation of the Skagit Headwaters

• Megan is a Planner at Firelight

Amy Metzger (completed April 2024)

• 699 Project: Reflections of UNDRIP in British Columbia's emerging forestry policy: The province's understanding and a closer look at old growth management

• Amy is an Environmental Assessment Coordinator with the Government of Alberta.

Andrew Palmer - (completed January 2024)

• 699 Project: Assessing Watershed Health Indicators: Strengthening Indigenous Co-Governance and Embracing Climate Adaptation in Support of Watershed Resilience

• Andrew worked as a Planning Associate at EcoPlan International and is now working as a Climate Action and Energy Specialist with the City of Burnaby.

Katarina Heim - (completed November 2023)

• 699 Project: Turning the Tide: A Just Transition to Low-Emission Marine Propulsion Solutions in Coastal Indigenous Communities

• Kat is currently a Policy Analyst at the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada.

Deanna Cummings - (completed August 2023)

• 699 Project: Nuu-chah-nulth Health Sovereignty in the Time of COVID-19

• Deanna is currently working as a Planning Associate at EcoPlan International

Tyla Crowe - (completed May 2023)

• 699 Project: Reconciliation, Resurgence, Indigenous-led Conservation and the Helicat Canada Toolkit

• Tyla and I co-authored a peer-reviewed book chapter with Kara Shaw and Tamara Krawchenko titled, “Indigenous ambivalence? It's not about the pipeline …: Indigenous responses to fossil fuel export projects in Western Canada” in Public Responses to Fossil Fuel Export, edited by Hilary Boudet and Shawn Hazboun (2022). You can find it: here.

• Tyla is currently working as an Indigenous Relations Socio-Cultural and Community Planner at Dillon Consulting

Maya Molander - (completed August 2022)

• 699 Project: Renewables and Reconciliation: Decolonizing climate policies for a just transition to a low-carbon future

• Maya is a Senior Specialist, Community Development at the First Nations Health Authority for the Fraser Salish Region.

Clémentine Bouche (completed April 2022)

• 699 Project: Developing Indigenous Health Indicators for Cumulative Health Impact Assessment

• Clémentine is an Environmental Assessment Advisor at the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board in the Northwest Territories.

Aidan Whiteley (completed August 2021)

• 699 Project: An unprincipled relationship: Settler colonialism, recognition, and reconciliation in the principles respecting the government of Canada’s relationship with Indigenous peoples

• Aidan is currently working as a Title & Rights Administrator for the Lower Nicola Indian Band.

Chantelle Spicer (Mi'kmaq, Moroccan Jewish & Austrian heritage), MA, Sociology & Anthropology - co-supervised with Dr. Pamela Stern (completed July 2021)

• Thesis: Knowing the land as home and alive: Re-centering Snuneymuxw’s relationship to Saysutshun in co-management

• Chantelle is the Campaign Manager at the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition.

Tara Lamothe-Ammerlaan (Métis) (completed January 2021)

• 699 Project: Mercury loss from gold rush era placer mines in the Fraser Basin

• Tara is a Program Manager at the Firelight Group.

Maddie Hague (completed September 2019)

• 699 Project: How ENGOs in British Columbia navigate Indigenous rights and title: A look at the past and a present day case study

• Maddie is a Referrals Analyst with the Tsleil-Waututh Nation.

Graduates where I was a committee Member:

Dr. Jonathan Boron (Cayuga), PhD candidate, REM

• Jonathan and I co-authored the article, “Land Is Life: Indigenous Relationships to Territory and Navigating Settler Colonial Property Regimes in Canada” (2022), which you can find: here.

Dr. Skye Augustine (Stz'minus), REM (defended June 2025)

• Thesis: Bringing our beaches to life again: the resurgence of Coast Salish clam gardening

Alya Govorchin, MSc, Health Sciences, SFU (defended April 2025)

• Thesis: First Nations Sovereignty and Stewardship: Exploring Dakelh Self-Governance and Community-led Strategies to Strengthen Wildfire Resilience and Health.

Dr. Spencer Greening (Gitga'at), PhD candidate, Archaeology (defended April 2024)

• Thesis: Ła al'algyag̱a laxyuuba Gitḵ'a'ata (The Territory of the Gitga'at speaks): Place-based Indigenous knowledge in the heart of Gitga'at Territory

• Spencer is now a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Victoria

Current students:

PhD candidates:

Sarah Ozog

• Sarah is a co-applicant with the PICS team working on the Turning the Tide: Exploring Clean Marine Propulsion in Coastal Indigenous Communities project. She is leading the research with our Haida partners.

MRM Students:

Samantha Tancontian

Tatum Askew

Nadia Drissi El-Bouzaidi

Irina Borgos

Committees:

Kim-Ly Thompson, PhD candidate, REM

Jennifer Cutbill, PhD student, UBC Interdisciplinary Studies

Will Niver, PhD student, REM

Maeve Leduc, MSc student, Faculty of Health Sciences