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Dr. Brenda Anderson

Associate Professor (Luther College)
PhD (University of Regina)

E-mail: brenda.anderson@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5170

Current Classes
Fall 2024 - WGST 100-L01, RLST 390AM-L01 / Winter 2025 - WGST 206-L01, RLST 275-L01

Research Interests

  • Women in religion
  • Feminist theories and practices in interreligious dialogue
  • Post-colonial studies
  • Women in Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism
  • Mythic biographies and performative autobiographies

My research currently focuses on the intersection of interreligious dialogue and feminist discourse, with emphasis on identity politics and hybridity. As well, Islamic feminisms, narrative discourse, and women's performative autobiographies are key to my research. I am writing my dissertation, "Feminist Dialogical Activism: A Hybrid Space for New Interreligious Identities."

Dr. Leona Anderson

Professor Emeritus; Sessional Lecturer
PhD (McMaster University)

E-mail: leona.anderson@uregina.ca

Research Interests

  • Sanskrit
  • Religion in India, Cuba, and China
  • Ritual and Iconography
  • Gender
  • Popular Culture

My research interests include Sanskrit literature, classical and popular religions of India, Hindu ritual and iconography, South Asian Art History, Popular Religious Movements, Cultural Studies, Ritual Studies, Gender Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, New Religions in North America, History of India, Visual Culture, popular deities in China and their ritual worship (particularly Guanyin), and popular religions, popular deities, and ritual expressions in Cuba (particularly those of Santería and Espiritismo.

My current research focuses on popular visual culture in three very different locations: 1) India: I am working on a video documentary on the Ashtavinayakas near Pune. 2) Ritual images and ritual image worship in popular Cuban religion. I am writing an essay on the image of la Virgen de Regla in Havana and making documentary videotapes on the Orishas of Cuba, Espiritismo in Havana and the ritual worship of San Lazaro. 3) Popular religious images in Yunnan and their ritual worship. I am writing an essay in collaboration with Guoxian Xie on an image of Guanyin in Dali, Yunnan, China. There is a gender component in each of these projects.

Dr. William Arnal

Professor
PhD (University of Toronto)

E-mail: william.arnal@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5680

Current Classes
Fall 2024 - RLST 100-001, RLST 248-001, RLST 348-001 / Winter 2025 - RLST 100-002, RLST 202-001

Research Interests

  • New Testament
  • Gnosticism
  • Ancient Religions
  • Ancient Magic
  • Method and Theory

My research focuses on theoretical issues in Religious Studies, on ancient Christianity and on the historiography of ancient Christianity. Published work includes discussions of definitions of religion and their theoretical ramifications, the politics of Religious Studies, and implicit apologetic motifs in New Testament scholarship. In addition, I have done substantive research on ancient Christian writings such as Q, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mark, and the Pauline letters. Typically, these studies have taken the form of close textual analysis combined with a Marxian theoretical sensibility that seeks to find explanations for changes in religious ideology in social conflict, reconstructed from the contemporary archeological and literary record.

Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline: SORAAAD

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Books

  • Scribal Practices and Social Structures among Jesus Adherents: Essays in Honour of John S. Kloppenborg. Co-edited with Richard Ascough, Robert Derrenbacker, and Philip Harland. Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 285. Leuven: Peeters, 2016.
  • The Sacred is the Profane: The Political Nature of “Religion.” Co-authored with Russell McCutcheon. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion: Essays in Honor of Donald Wiebe. Co-edited with Willi Braun and Russell McCutcheon. London: Equinox Publishing, 2012.
  • The Symbolic Jesus: Historical Scholarship, Judaism, and the Construction of Contemporary Identity. London: Equinox Publishing, 2005.
  • Jesus and the Village Scribes: Galilean Conflicts and the Setting of Q. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001.
  • Whose Historical Jesus? (Collected Essays From the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Historical Jesus Section). Co-edited with Michel Desjardins. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997.

Selected Recent Articles

  • “Minding the Margins: ‘Scholia’ in the Text of the Gospel of Thomas.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 29/1 (2021): 1-30.
  • “« Dans l’entre-deux surgit la fiction »: apprendre de Jonathan Z. Smith.” Asdiwal: Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions 13 (2018): 43-51.
  • “Pedagogy, Text and the Solitary Self in the Gospel of Thomas." Pp.194-211 in Alexander Damm (ed.), Religion and Education in Antiquity. Studies in the History of Religion, volume 160. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
  • “Textual Healing: Magic in Mark and Acts.” Pp.87-124 in Jos Verheyden and John S. Kloppenborg, eds., The Gospels and Their Stories in Anthropological Perspective. Leuven: Peeters Press, 2018.
  • “Mark, War, and Creative Imagination.” Pp.401-482 in Barry S. Crawford and Merrill P. Miller (eds.), Redescribing the Gospel of Mark. Early Christianity and its Literature, 22. Atlanta, Georgia: Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2017.
  • “On Smith, on Myth, on Mark.” Pp.145-168 in Barry S. Crawford and Merrill P. Miller (eds.), Redescribing the Gospel of Mark. Early Christianity and its Literature, 22. Atlanta, Georgia: Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2017.
  • “What Kind of Category is ‘Religion’?” In Richard King (ed.), Theory / Religion / Critique: Classical and Contemporary Approaches and Methodologies. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.
  • “How the Gospel of Thomas Works.” Pp.261-280 in William Arnal, Richard Ascough, Robert Derrenbacker, and Philip Harland, eds., Scribal Practices and Social Structures among Jesus Adherents: Essays in Honour of John S. Kloppenborg. Leuven: Peeters, 2016.
  • Review Essay Roundtable on Burton L. Mack’s Myth of Innocence. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 83/3 (2015): 837-841.
  • “Blessed are the Solitary: Textual Practices and the Mirage of a Thomas ‘Community.’” Pp.271-281 in Caroline Johnson Hodge, Saul Olyan, Dan Ullicci, and Emma Wasserman, eds., The One Who Sows Bountifully. Brown Judaic Studies. Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 2014.
  • “Accommodating an American Secularism: Jacques Berlinerblau’s Agenda for a Secularish Future.” Critical Research on Religion: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1/2 (August, 2013): 220-225.
  • “The Trouble with Q.” Foundations & Facets Forum 2/1, third series (Spring 2013): 7-77.
  • “The Irony of Religion” (with Willi Braun). Pp.233-241 in Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion: Essays in Honor of Donald Wiebe. Co-edited with Willi Braun and Russell McCutcheon. London: Equinox Publishing, 2012.
  • “The Collection and Synthesis of ‘Tradition’ and the Second-Century Invention of Christianity.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 23/3 (2011): 193-215.
  • “Bringing Paul and the Corinthians Together? A Rejoinder and Some Proposals on Redescription and Theory.” Pp.75-104 in Ron Cameron and Merrill Miller (eds.), Redescribing Paul and the Corinthians. Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 2011.
  • “The Synoptic Problem and the Historical Jesus.” Pp.371-432 in P. Foster, et al. (eds.), New Studies in the Synoptic Problem. Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 239; Leuven: Peeters, 2011.
  • “What Branches Grow out of this Stony Rubbish? ‘Biblical’ Contributions to the Study of Religion.” Studies in Religion 39/4 (2010): 549-572.
  • “The Laboratory of Ancient Religions: A Response to Athanasios Koutoupas’ ‘Religion and Politics under the Ptolemies.’” In Bulletin for the Study of Religion 39/2 (April 2010): 30-34.
  • “Jesus as Battleground in a Period of Cultural Complexity.” Pp.99-117 in Halvor Moxnes, Ward Blanton, and James Crossley (eds.), Jesus Beyond Nationalism: Constructing the Historical Jesus in a Period of Cultural Complexity. London: Equinox Press, 2010.
  • “The Narcissism of Minor Differences.” In Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin 38/1 (February 2009): 7-10.
  • "He is Going Before you to Galilee: The Gospel of Mark as Reflection on Exile and Identity." In Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon (eds.), Introducing Religion. London: Equinox Press, 2007.
  • "A Parting of the Ways? Scholarly Identities and a Peculiar Species of Ancient Mediterreanean Religion." In Zeba Crook and Philip Harland (eds.), Indentity and Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean: Jews, Christians, and Others. Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007.
  • "Doxa, Heresy, and Self-Construction: The Pauline Ekklēsiai and the Boundaries of Urban Identities." Pp.50-101 in Eduard Iricinschi and Holger Zellentin (eds.), Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007.
  • "The Symbolic Jesus: Why it Matters that Jesus was Jewish." Part 1: The Fourth R 20/1 (January-February 2007): 3-8, 22. Part 2: The Fourth R 20/2 (March-April 2007): 3-8, 18.
  • "The Q Document." Pp. 119-154 in Matt Jackson-McCabe (ed.), Jewish Christianity/Christian Judaism: Classification and Description in Contemporary Study. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.
Jill Arnott

MA (University of Regina)

E-mail: Jill.Arnott@uregina.ca

Current Classes
Spring/Summer 2024 - WGST 201-040

Dr. Kevin Bond

Department Head July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025

Associate Professor
PhD; MA; BA (McMaster University)

E-mail: kevin.bond@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4335

Current Classes
Fall 2024 - RLST 207-001 / Winter 2025 - RLST 201-001

Research Interests

  • Early Modern Religion in Japan
  • Cult of Fudō Myōō
  • Popular Religion and Theatre
  • Humour and Parody

Selected Publications

Bond, Kevin. “Buddhist Monster Hunters: Collecting and Displaying Yōkai Relics in Early Modern Japanese Religion.” Premodern Monsters and their Social Reflections, edited by Allan Wright. Denver: Vernon Press, 2023. (Forthcoming).

Bond, Kevin. "Wild Actors & Wrathful Deities: Buddhist Faith, Entertainment, and the Kabuki Theatre of Early Modern Japan." Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses, 44:1 (March 2015): 16-32. 

Bond, Kevin. "Of Saints and Blood: The Narita Sword Cult in Edo Japan." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 77:2 (2014): 313-335.

Bond, Kevin. "The 'Famous Places' of Japanese Buddhism: Representations of Urban Temple Life in Early Modern Guidebooks." Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses, 43:2 (2014): 228-242.
 
Bond, Kevin. "Buddhism on the Battlefield: The Cult of the 'Substitute Body' Talisman in Imperial Japan (1890–1945)." In Material Culture and in Asian Religions: Text, Image, Object, edited by Benjamin Fleming and Richard Mann, 121-134. Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture Series. London: Routledge 2014.

Bond, Kevin. "Shinto." In World Religions: Canadian Perspectives (Eastern Traditions), edited by Doris Jakobsh, 246–262. Two Volumes. Toronto: Nelson, 2012.

Bond, Kevin. "Localizing the Immovable One: The Meguro Fudō Cult in Early Modern Japan." In Images, Relics, and Legends: The Formation and Transformation of Buddhist Sacred Sites, edited by James Benn, Chen Jinhua, and James Robson, 273–295.  Oakville: Mosaic Press, 2012.

Dr. Claire Carter

Professor
PhD (York University)

E-mail: Claire.Carter@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4668

Sabbatical July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025

Research Interests

  • Relationship between movement/exercise and the embodiment of gender within the changing dynamics of queer and trans communities in Canada
  • Queer theory and trans studies
  • Feminist and social justice methodologies
  • Community engagement
  • Movement and identity.

Current research examines the relationship between movement/exercise and the embodiment of gender within the changing dynamics of queer and trans communities in Canada. She teaches courses on feminist methodologies, queer theory, and popular culture and some of her work has been published in Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, Leisure Studies, Sexualities, and the Journal of Gender Studies.

Dr. Kyuhoon Cho

Sessional and Adjunct Professor
PhD (University of Ottawa)

E-mail: kyuhoon.cho@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4233

Research Interests

  • Asian Religions
  • Globalization, Religion, and the Secular
  • Sociology of Religion
  • Religious Diversity and Popular Culture

Kyuhoon Cho specializes in Asian religions with a primary interest in the role of religion in globalized East Asia. His current research focuses on the location of religion in Korean modernity and the trans-regionalization of Asian religious traditions. From a global comparative perspective, he explores ways in which the interactions between religious traditions and secular cultures construct identity, reformulate power relations and maintain transnational religious connections in Asia and beyond. Prior to joining the University of Regina, he taught at universities in Singapore and Korea for 7 years. Though being an East Asian religion specialist, he is deeply interested in religious phenomena in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Central Asia.

Selected Publications

Forthcoming  “Muslims in Contemporary South Korea: Islamic Religion and the Cultural Politics of Ethnicity” in Yuka Kobayashi ed. Muslim Minorities in East Asia: Accommodation and Contestation in the Lived Experience of East Asian Muslims (Amsterdam University Press). 

2019   “Beyond Contemporary West-Centric Globalization: Religious Traditions and Multiple Globalizations in Asia”, Studies in Religion 79(3) [Chonggyo yŏn’gu]. 

2019   “Religion and Globalization: The Formation, Disjuncture and Expansion of the Modern Religious System”, Studies in Religion 79(1) [Chonggyo yŏn’gu]. 

2018   “Science, State, and Spirituality: Stories of Four Creationists in South Korea,” (with Hyung Wook Park), History of Science 56(1). 

2017   “Religion and Media: No Longer A Blindspot in Korean Academia,” (with Jin Kyu Park and Sam Han), “Religion and Media in Korea,” Journal of Korean Religions 8(2). 

2017   “Religion in the Press: The Construction of Religion in the Korean News Media,” Journal of Korean Religions 8(2). 

2016   “Religion and the Sustainable Modern: The Crisis of Modern Secularity and the Emergence of Contextual Transcendence,” Studies in Religion 76(3) [Chonggyo yŏn’gu]. 

2016   “Protestantism, Education and the Nation: The Shifting Location of Protestant Schools in Modern Korea,” Acta Koreana 19(1). 

2014   “Another Christian Right? The Politicization of Korean Protestantism in

Contemporary Global Society,” Social Compass 61(3). 

2014   “Niklas Luhmann’s Theory on Religion: Religion as Autopoietic Communication System in Global Society,” The Critical Review of Religion and Culture [Chonggyo munhwa pip’yŏng] 26 (September). 

2009   “Concept of Religion in South Korean Legal System from a Global Perspective,” Journal of Religion and Culture [Chonggyo munhwa yŏngu] 12 (June).

Dr. Michelle Folk

Sessional Lecturer (Luther College)
PhD (Concordia University)

E-mail: michelle.folk@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5128

Current Classes
Spring/Summer 2024 - RLST 100-L070 / Fall 2024 - RLST 100-C01, RLST 100-C21

I am a graduate of the University of Regina, having received a bachelor of arts (high honours) and a master of arts in religious studies before completing my doctor of philosophy in religious studies at Concordia University in Montreal. My past research interests have included work on medieval Hindu and Muslim women on the subject of conformity and rebellion and identity construction through narrative by Hindu poets. My dissertation, Ascetics, Devotees, Disciples, and Lords of the Matam: Monasteries in Medieval Tamilnadu, examined epigraphical materials for what they reveal about the activities and people of South India's matams in the ninth to thirteenth centuries. Recently, I served a researcher and facilitator for the local planning committee of the North American Interfaith Network Connect: Restoring Spirit Through Sacred Listening, an interfaith and interreligious conference that was held on campus in the summer of 2015. While I continue my work on South India's medieval-period inscriptions, I am also a research assistant for the SSHRC-funded project New Muslim Public Spheres in the Digital Age and am in the early stages of a project on storytelling, multiculturalism, religious identity in Saskatchewan with Dr. Brenda Anderson of Luther College.

Sample Work

“Both Guru and Goddess: Mata Amritanandamayi of Kerala.” Revised. In Women and Religious Traditions, 3rd ed., edited by Pamela Dickey Young and Leona M. Anderson, Oxford University Press, Toronto, Ontario, 2015.

Should We ‘Read’ the Writing on the Wall? Approaches to India’s Inscriptions, Canadian Historical Association, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, 2015.

Challenging the Ascetic Ideal by Tracing the Evolution of Asceticism in Medieval India, Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 2014.

The Teacher, Disciple, and Lineage: Should They Always Define the Matha? Pacific-Northwest Region of the American Academy of Religion, University of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta, 2014.

Review of David Dean Shulman’s Spring, Heat, Rains: A South Indian Diary. Journal of Religion and Culture: A Canadian Graduate Student Journal, 2010.

Identity Construction Through Narrative: A Study of Manikkavacakar’s Tiruvacakam, Fifth International Workshop on Tamil Epigraphy, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, University of Paris (Sorbonne), Paris, France, 2008.

Sample Awards

2007-08 Graduate Research Fellowship,
Shastri-Indo Canadian Institute.

2006-07 Student Excellence Award,
Shastri-Indo Canadian Institute.

Courses Taught

Introduction to Religious Studies
Introduction to Hinduism(s)
Religious Experiences and Psychological Perspectives
Hindu Deities
Mysticism in World Religions
Goddesses and Women

Dr. FranzVolker Greifenhagen

Professor (Luther College)
PhD (Duke University)

E-mail: franzvolker.greifenhagen@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 206-2109

Current classes
Fall 2024 RLST 100-L01, RLST 290AK-L01 / Winter 2025 RLST 230-L01, RLST 341-L01

Research Interests

  • Comparative scriptures and scriptural systems
  • Emergence of distinctly North American forms of Islam and the modes of exegesis associated with them
  • Ideologies of identity in the Hebrew bible

My research interests include comparative scriptures and scriptural systems, more specifically the processes of canonization in both traditional and alternate religious expressions, and the scriptural and interpretive traditions of Islam, Judaism and Christianity in comparison. Also, I am interested in the emergence of distinctly North American forms of Islam and the modes of exegesis associated with them, particularly around issues of the role of women, activism and fundamentalism. Finally, I continue my interest in ideologies of identity in the Hebrew bible, and in effective pedagogies in Religious Studies generally, and biblical studies in particular.

Dr. Sami Helewa

Associate Professor; President (Campion College)

E-mail: sami.helewa@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1217
Website: https://campioncollege.ca/resources/dr-sami-helewa/

Current Classes
Fall 2024 - RLST 227-C01 / Winter 2025 RLST 241-C01

Sami Helewa, S.J., was born and raised in Lebanon where he completed his first studies.  He came to Canada in 1981 and enjoyed a career in the financial sector after he completed his undergraduate studies (B.Sc 1986) at the University of Toronto, and became also an editor to G-7 Report in international economics. After he completed his M. Divinity at Regis College (University of Toronto) he entered the Society of Jesus in 1998.  Since then, he has completed Special studies in Philosophy (2002) at University of Toronto, M. Theology and S.T.L (Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge MA, 2006), MA in religious studies at University of Toronto (2008), and a PhD in Islamic studies (University of Edinburgh, 2012).  Sami is no stranger to Campion College since during his regency he served as a chaplain and an assistant lecturer between 2002 and 2004. Dr. Helewa lectures and works in various capacities: Islam and world religions in the department of religious studies; Arabic in the department of international languages; director of Catholic Studies at Campion.

Dr. Helewa is currently the chairman of the Jesuit Forum (Toronto) and since July 1, 2018, he became the president of Campion College.

Books

  • Models of leadership in the Adab narratives of Joseph, David and Solomon. Lament for the Sacred. Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Lexington, 2018. 

Currently he is researching on dialogue with Muslims at time of the Crusades.

Dr. Randal Rogers

Associate Professor
PhD (Concordia University); MA (Concordia University); BA (University of British Columbia)

E-mail: Randal.Rogers@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4746

Current classes
Spring 2024 - WGST 100-020 / Fall 2024 WGST 280AP-001, WGST 380AZ-001 / Winter 2025 WGST 100-001, WGST 320-001

Research Interests

  • Currently exploring relationship of queer subjectivities to espionage in film and television
Accreditation
  • PhD (Art History, Concordia) 2004
  • MA (Art History, Concordia) 1999
  • BA (Art History, UBC) 1992
In Progress
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Histories, Adaptations, Legacies (Routledge, 2022)
  • Wilderness of Mirrors: Spies and Other Queer Subjects in Visual Culture (Lexington Press, under contract [2023])
Works of Note     
  • “Altered States: Drugs, Bipolarity, Affect, and the ‘Killjoy’ in Homeland,” Capacious: Journal of Emerging Affect Inquiry (Vol. 2, No. 3: July 2021)
  • "Into a Wilderness of Mirrors: 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy's Queer Nostalgia," Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture(UK) (Vol. 2, No. 2: June 2017).
  • "A Monster We Love: Dexter's Reproductive Futures," Journal of Literature and Art, vol. 9, no. 6 (Sept. 2016):1027-37.
  • Overlooking Saskatchewan: Minding the Gap, Editor (with Christine Ramsay), University of Regina Press (October 2014)
  • “Thinking Through Blood in Post-9/11 Visual Culture: The Passion of the Christ and Bobby”, Outspoken: Perspectives on Queer Identities,Wes Pearce and Jean Hillabold, eds. University of Regina Press, 2013: 181-99.
  • “Sanguine Disavowals or Impossible Invisible Blood”, Blood, Meredith Jones and Suzanne Boccalatte, eds. with introduction by Jeff Lindsay, Trunk Books: Sydney, Australia, 2012: 181-91.
  • “Everyday Violence and Violence, Everyday”, Diabolique, Dunlop Art Gallery Regina, Canada, July-September 2009: 52-61.
  • “Colonial Imitation and Racial Insubordination: Photography from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904” History of Photography32, 4 (2008): 354-74.
  • “The Racial Drape,” Visio: The Journal of the International Association for Visual Semiotics, Special Issue: The State of the Image, vol. 5, no. 4 (Winter 2000-01 (out in 2004)): 41-50.
Dr. Danette Starblanket

Sessional Lecturer

PhD – Public Policy (2023) – Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, MA - Indigenous Studies (2001) – University of Regina, BA Honours – Indigenous Studies (1994) – First Nations University of Canada/University of Regina, BA Advanced – English (1993) – First Nations University of Canada/University of Regina

E-mail: danette.starblanket@uregina.ca

Research Interests

  • Indigenous protest movements – Idle No More
  • Indigenous women and feminist theories and epistemologies
  • Indigenous gender and sexuality
  • Indigenous women and politics
  • Indigenous governance
  • Indigenous community engagement
  • Indigenous research methodologies
  • Treaty rights and Aboriginal rights
  • Indigenous health

Danette Starblanket is from the Star Blanket Cree Nation and has recently completed her PhD at the University of Saskatchewan. Danette is an Assistant Professor with the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina. She is also a Sessional Lecturer at the First Nations University of Canada (Indigenous Studies) and the University of Regina (Women’s and Gender Studies).

Publications

Acharibasam, J., Chapados, M., Langan, J., Starblanket, D., Starr, V., BigEagle, L., Hagel, M. 2022. “Exploring Health and Wellness with First Nations Communities at the ‘Knowing Your Health Symposium’”. Healthcare Management Forum AGE-WELL AgeTech Special Edition. Published article.

Bourassa, C., Starblanket, D., Hagel, M., Legare, M., Keewatin, M., Oakes, N., Lefebvre, S., McKenna, B., Kisikaw Piyesis, M., Boehme, G. 2021. “Reclaiming Indigenous Health Research and Knowledges as Self-Determination in Canada”. The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4106-3_33-1. Published Book Chapter.

Bourassa, C., Starblanket, D., Billan, J., Hagel, M., Anderson, S., Legare, M., Chapados, M. 2021. “The COVID-19 Pandemic Invoking the Famine and Pestilence Clause to be Paired with the Medicine Chest Clause from the Numbered Treaties”. International Indigenous Policy Journal. Volume 12, Issue 4. Published Journal Article.

Bourassa, C., McKenna, B., Keewatin, M., Anderson, S., Legare, M., Hagel, M., Starblanket, D., Billan, J., McIlduff, C. 2021. “Restoring Indigenous Sexuality” in Teaching about Sex and Sexualities in Higher Education. Susan Hillock ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Published Book Chapter.

Bourassa, C., Jardine, M., Starblanket, D., Lefevbre, S., Legare, M., Hickey, D., Deiter, J., McKenna, B., Boehme, G., Akan, N. 2021. “Pursuing Pathways to Care: Dementia and Aging in Indigenous Communities”. Aging People, Aging Places: Experiences, Opportunities and Challenges of Growing Older in Canada. Maxwell Hartt, Samantha Biglieri, Mark W. Rosenberg and Sarah E. Nelson eds. Bristol: Bristol University Press. Published Book Chapter.

Bourassa, C., Starblanket, D., Anderson, S. 2020. “Excising racism from health care requires Indigenous collaboration”. Policy Options. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy. November 2, 2020. Published Article.

Billan, J., Starblanket, D., Anderson, S., Legare, M., Hagel, M., Oakes, N., Jardine, M., Boehme, G., Dubois, E., Spencer, O., Hotomani, M., McKenna, B., Bourassa, C. 2020. “Ethical research engagement with Indigenous communities”. Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering. Vol. 7. June 22, 2020.

https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2055668320922706. Published Journal Article.

Starblanket, D., O’Connell, M., Gould, B., Jardine, M., Ferguson, M., Bourassa, C. 2019. “Defining Technology User Needs of Indigenous Older Adults Requiring Dementia Care”. Gerontechnology, 18(3), 122-135. http://journal.gerontechnology.org/. Published Journal Article.

Starblanket, D., Lefebvre, S., Legare, M., Billan, J., Akan, N., Goodpipe, E., Bourassa, C. 2019. “nanâtawihowin âcimowina kika-môsahkinikêhk papiskîci-itascikêwin astâcikowina: (Medicine/Healing Stories Picked, Sorted, Stored): Adapting the Collective Consensual Data Analytic Procedure (CCDAP) as an Indigenous Research Method”. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. Vol. 18. pp.1-10.  Sage Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1609406919896140. Published Journal Article.

Starblanket, D., Legare, M. 2019. “Testing Locally Developed Language Apps to Reduce Caregiver Stress and Promote “Aging in Place” as it Relates to Dementia in Indigenous Populations”. Alzheimer’s & Dementia. Vol 15(75). https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.jalz.2019.06.4061. Published Journal Article.

Dr. Michelle Stewart

Interim Associate Dean, Student Success
Professor
Director, Regina Improvisation Studies Centre
Researcher, Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit

PhD, MA, BA (University of California)

E-mail: michelle.stewart@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4873
Fax: 306-585-4815
Pronoun(s): she/they

Current Classes
On Sabbitical January 1, 2025 to June 30, 2025

Research Interests

  • Applied anthropology
  • Disability justice
  • Settler colonialism
  • Forensic social sciences, science and technology studies
  • Harm reduction
  • Justice system

Dr. Michelle Stewart is a Professor in Gender, Religion and Critical Studies and also teaches in the Department of Justice Studies. Michelle is an interdisciplinary scholar working with research and evaluation teams at the regional, national and international level. As an applied anthropologist trained in Science and Technology Studies as well as visual and legal anthropology, Michelle focuses on research, interventions, evaluation and community collaboration in the area of cognitive disabilities, mental health and racialized inequalities as they present in the criminal justice and child welfare systems—but are traced back to Social Determinants of Health. Michelle was raised as a settler, and her research and community work focuses on the ongoing role of settler colonialism and systemic racism that creates racialized disparities in the justice system—with an aim to decolonize programs and practices. From the delivery of training to scholarly and artistic outputs, Michelle focuses on high-impact, community-driven, and action-oriented projects. Michelle recently completed two terms as the Academic Director of the Community Research Unit. She leads UR Evidence Liaison Team and is the Institutional Lead for Community-Based Research at the University of Regina. Michelle is the project lead for the Integrated Justice Program. This multi-year project focuses on Truth and Reconciliation Call to Action #34 to deliver frontline supports and services that intervene on the over-representation of Indigenous peoples with disabilities in the justice system. Michelle is a certified Gladue writer leading a one-of-a-kind project that generates team delivered Gladue Reports meant to impact sentencing in Saskatchewan courts. Michelle’s work appears in academic journals and books as well as popular outlets including The Conversation.

Michelle's most recent article, “Risk, Rights, and Deservedness: Navigating the Tensions of Gladue, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Settler Colonialism,” with Jane Dickson, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, is an Open Access article. This article, co-authored with Dr. Jane Dickson, can be accessed here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bsl.2536

Dr. Michelle Wagner

Sessional Lecturer (Campion College)
MA (Queen's University)

E-mail: Michelle.Wagner@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1233