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Vanessa Watts is an Associate Professor at McMaster University jointly appointed to the Indigenous Studies Program and Department of Sociology. Her work bridges Indigenous policy, gender and sexuality in education, and decolonization, with a focus on Indigenous sovereignty, reconciliation, and Indigenous knowledge systems.
- Education:
- Bachelor of Arts in Native Studies and Philosophy, Trent University
- Master of Arts in Indigenous Governance, University of Victoria
- PhD in Sociology, Queen's University
Her research interrogates settler colonialism through analyses of residential schools, Indigenous cosmologies, and human/non-human relations. Recent publications include chapters on feminist care ethics and Ontology, alongside articles on reconciliation imperatives and spiritual erasure.
Watts received a $2 million SSHRC/NCTR grant for her project Re-Neighbouring as Reconciliation, which unites survivors of the Mohawk Institute Residential School and Hamilton Mountain Sanatorium to address colonial displacement. She teaches courses on Indigenous sovereignty, the Indian Act, and reconciliation.
