Robin R.R. Gray

Robin R.R. Gray is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) and holds non-budgetary cross-appointments in the Graduate Faculty of Sociology and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto St. George. A Ts’msyen and Mikisew Cree scholar, she is also the Special Advisor on Rematriation at UTM (2022–23) and focuses on Indigenous Studies, socio-cultural anthropology, and decolonization.

• Ph.D. in Anthropology (2015), University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Graduate Certificate in Native American and Indigenous Studies (2015), University of Massachusetts Amherst
• M.A. in Anthropology (2010), University of Massachusetts Amherst
• B.A.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies (2008), Bennett College

Dr. Gray’s research centers on the politics of Indigeneity in settler colonial contexts, addressing foundational issues in Indigenous cultural heritage representation, preservation, and ownership. She advocates for rematriation—a decolonial framework prioritizing Indigenous laws, ethics, and protocols—to challenge Euro-Western repatriation paradigms.

Her projects include an SSHRC Insight Development Grant for “The Repatriation of Song” and collaboration on the SSHRC Insight Grant “Caring for Our Ancestors.” She has published in journals such as Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal and Museum Anthropology, and contributed to the edited volume Where the Power Is.