Indigenous Masculinities: An Emerging Field

This public lecture examines the emerging field of Indigenous masculinities. The event is presented by DIALOG in collaboration with the School of Community and Public Affairs and the First Peoples Studies Program. 

Dr. Kim Anderson is a Cree/Metis researcher with roots in western Canada. She is currently Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Dr. Anderson has written extensively on issues related to the well being of women and Indigenous families and on health and social policy in Indigenous communities. She is the author of Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine (2000) and A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood (2011). 

Dr. Robert Alexander Innes is Plains Cree member of the Cowesses First Nation and Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies in the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan. His current research focuses on factors leading to successful Indigenous institutions, contemporary kinship roles and responsibilities and Indigenous masculinities. His work has appeared inAboriginal Policy Journal, American Indian Culture and Research Journal and American Indian Quarterly as well as in several book chapters. 

Kim Anderson and Robert Alexander Innes have recently co-edited Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration (University of Manitoba Press, 2015)