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Lara Rosenoff Gauvin is an Associate Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba. She co-chairs the Respectful Rematriation and Repatriation Ceremony, working closely with Indigenous Elders, Grandmothers, Grandfathers, and Knowledge Keepers. Her work emphasizes intergenerational Indigenous knowledge, sovereignty, human rights, and institutional truth-telling.
- PhD in Anthropology (University of British Columbia, 2016)
- MFA in Documentary Media (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2009)
- BA in Communication Studies (Concordia University, 1998)
Her research bridges repatriation/ rematriation practices, transitional justice, land rights, and museum ethics. Her publications explore Acoli land sovereignties, visual ethnography ethics, and post-conflict social repair in Northern Uganda. She collaborates with the Centre for Human Rights Research and Transformative Memory International Network.
As the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, she frames her work within settler colonial critique and relational repair frameworks. She teaches courses on anthropological theory, museum practices, and cultural power dynamics.
