Dr. Keith Carlson's Students

Omeasoo Butt
PhD (ABD) Dissertation Title: Twentieth Century Tla'ami
Fields of Expertise: Indigenous Peoples in Canada, Canadian History, American History, Native American History
Email: omeasoo@me.com








Michelle Desveaux
PhD Candidate
Dissertation Title: Engaging Historical Consciousness: The Coexistence, Convergence, and Counterpoint of Canadian and Indigenous Histories (working title)

Fields of Expertise: Canadian historiography; historical consciousness; comparative Indigenous history; orality and literacy.

Conference Presentations:
“Intersections of Historical Consciousness at the Fortress of Louisbourg and the National Archives: Writing the Present by Contesting the Past.” International Conference on the Study of Canada, Trent University, May 2015 – upcoming.

Dissertation Description: My research focuses on historical consciousness and the various manifestations of academic, public, and everyday history. Specifically, I investigate the influence of and on historical consciousness in places where Canadian and Indigenous histories meet, meld, and challenge each other. For my dissertation, three case studies will address this point of inquiry: the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site; the National Archives and Victoria Island; and Indigenous stand-up comedy.

Amanda Fehr
PhD (ABD)
Dissertation Description: Nations Transformed?: Continuity and Change in Aboriginal Histories of Catholicism in Northwestern Saskatchewan

Fields of Expertise: I completed my major comprehensive reading field in Comparative Aboriginal History, and minor fields in Post-Confederation Canadian History and American History 1865- Present.

Dissertation Description:
My research and teaching can be characterized by a commitment to community engagement. I employ ethnohistorical methodologies to consider how various communities historicize past events, how different understandings of the past compare to one another and change over time, and what these understandings suggest for how people identify themselves. I have been working with the Metis community of Ile-a-la-Crosse in Northwestern Saskatchewan since 2006 and have been working with the near by English River First Nation Since 2012. My dissertation, Nations Transformed?: Continuity and Change in Aboriginal Histories of Catholicism in Northwestern Saskatchewan explores the intersections of religious and political expression during the twentieth century in Ile-a-la-Crosse and English River. I posit that by creating a space to first historicize and then more broadly consider Aboriginal Christianity within Indigenous community life we can see what has been largely regarded as a colonial imposition in a new light that illuminates key features of the indigenous response to colonial induced change. Other research interests include reflecting on the practice of oral history and community engaged work, Aboriginal music and dance, place based studies, Metis history, northwest coast history, and Indigeneity. This year I am excited to teach a new community-based history course, history 498.3 “Filming History: Oral History, Digital Storytelling, and the Social History of Recent Prairie Immigration.”

Publications (Select):
“Relationships: A Study of Memory, Change, and Identity at a Place Called I:yem,” University of the Fraser Valley Research Review, Online Journal (April 2009).

With MacKinley Darlington, “Encountering Mary: Apparitions, Roadside Shrines, and the Métis of the Westside,” Saskatchewan History. 61(2), Fall 2009. 

Accepted
“A Subversive Sincerity: Christian Gatherings and Political Opportunities in S’olh

Téméxw,” in Mixed Blessings, Edited by Tolly Bradford and Chelsea Horton, UBC Press,7500 words. (Forthcoming)

Conference Presentations (Select):
“Region, Culture, and Community: Situating the Cree, the Métis, and the Dene in Northwestern Saskatchewan.” Conference of the Western History Association, Tucson Arizona, October 2013.

“Taking Students to the River: Negotiating Community and Academic ways of Teaching and Learning.” American Society for Ethnohistory, New Orleans Louisiana, 11-14 September 2013.

Conflicted Conflict: Christianity and the Métis in Northwestern Saskatchewan, Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo, 28-30 May 2012

“Memory, Change, and Identity at a Place called I:yem,” Stó:lō People of the River Conference, Stó:lõ Nation, Chilliwack, B.C., 30 April 2011.

“Moditional Mary: Labelling Concepts and Practices in Aboriginal Histories,” American Society for Ethnohistory, Ottawa, Ontario, 13 – 17 October 2010

With Katya Macdonald, “The Red River Jig in Sakitawak: Making Métis Music and Identities in Northwestern Saskatchewan,” NAISA Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California, 19 May 2011.

Email: mandy.fehr@usask.ca

Anne Janhunen
PhD (ABD)
Dissertation Description: My dissertation explores late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century land use in Ontario as it relates to Indigenous communities. Using case studies focused on agriculture, logging, and park creation, I examine how Indigenous communities and individuals have alternately drawn on, and adjusted, practices and livelihoods as a result of government- and industry-driven local and regional changes in land use.

Fields of Expertise: Environmental History; Ethnohistory; Oral History; Microhistory

Conference Presentations:
“‘If the Land is Worth the Trouble’: Colonial Imaginaries and Land Use in Early Twentieth Century Stó:lō Territory” Under Western Skies Conference, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Sept. 2014.

“Twentieth Century Land Use in S’olh Temexw, Stó:lō Territory” NiCHE Prairie Environmental History Network Workshop, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Apr. 2014.

“Deconstructing Colonial Narratives in Canadian History Textbooks” Indigenous knowledge and education session, VII ETMU Days, Negotiating the Local and Global: Values, Citizenship, and Education. Oulu, Finland, Oct. 2010.

Email: anne.janhunen@usask.ca