Improvising Futures Research Team (2022–2027)

Position

Dustin Brass

Dustin Brass is a lecturer and placement coordinator for Indigenous education at the First Nations University of Canada in Regina. He advocates for Land-based education – a curriculum connecting to…

Paul Barrett

My research is situated at the intersection of Canadian literature, multiculturalism, and digital humanities. I am the author of Blackening Canada: Diaspora, Race, Multiculturalism (Toronto),  the editor of ‘Membering Austin Clarke (Wilfrid…

Madhur Anand

Madhur Anand is professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph. She is an internationally recognized ecologist with research interests ranging from theoretical to empirical studies of…

Taiwo Afolabi

Dr Taiwo Afolabi is a Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre; Director, Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET), and an Assistant Professor at the University of Regina. He is…

Sherry Farrell Racette

Sherry Farrell Racette is an interdisciplinary scholar with an active arts and curatorial practice. Her work is grounded in story: stories of people, stories objects tell, painting stories, telling stories…

Mervyn Horgan

My research gathers an eclectic set of substantive interests grounded in a normative commitment to solidarity. My expertize is in social theory, cultural sociology, the sociology of everyday life, urban…

Dylan Robinson

Professor Robinson is a Stó:lō scholar who holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen’s University, located on the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples. His…

Adam Davies

Adam Davies (he/they) is a queer feminist interdisciplinary researcher with a background in Education, Sexuality Diversity Studies, and Women and Gender Studies. Adam holds a PhD from OISE, University of…

Stacey Bliss

Stacey Bliss, PhD (Education: Language, Culture and Teaching, York University, Canada) is an imaginative (auto)ethnographer, sound collaborator, and Gong teacher/student/performer. As a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Media,…

Jessica Bissett Perea

Jessica Bissett Perea is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work intersects the larger fields of Native American & Indigenous Studies (NAIS) and Music & Sound Studies. She specializes in Critical NAIS approaches to…