Morgan Mowatt

Morgan Mowatt (Noxs Sim maa’y/Lax Seel), Gitxsan from Gitanmaax, serves as Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria's School of Child and Youth Care, where their scholarship centers Indigenous sovereignty through human/more-than-human frameworks and state diplomacy interventions.

Education:

• BA: Vancouver Island University (VIU)
• MA: University of Victoria (UVIC)
• PhD: University of Victoria (UVIC)

Research Interests: Dr. Mowatt's work interrogates Indigenous legal authority, state-governance 'rights', youth empowerment, and arts-based praxes through rigorously anti-capitalist, anti-racist, feminist, and queer lenses. Their scholarship prioritizes non-reformist approaches to Indigenous liberation across intersecting identities, emphasizing community-led knowledge production and land-water-spirit relationships.

Recent publications reveal dual trajectories: building Indigenous politics as a political science subfield (2024) and developing land/water-based pedagogies for youth resurgence (2020). This work consistently bridges academic theory with frontline community action, particularly through arts-based healing with Black/Indigenous youth and IRS survivors.