New Canada Research Chair for Athabasca University

November 24, 2010

Athabasca University professor Dr. Tracey Lindberg has been awarded a Canada Research Chair in in Traditional Knowledge, Legal Orders, and Laws. The announcement was made today in Toronto by the Honourable Tony Clement, Minster of Industry.

Dr. Lindberg's research will concentrate on identifying how Indigenous legal traditions can assist in the rejuvenation of certain Indigenous citizens' rights through the study of the identifying characteristics of specific Indigenous societies and their laws.

"The research I am undertaking is based in Indigenous ways of knowing and Indigenous knowledge related to Indigenous laws and legal traditions," said Dr. Lindberg. "While challenging, I am so honoured to work in this area with the Indigenous nations, communities and citizens that I am working with. This is an absolute joy to be able to do this work and I am exceedingly grateful to have been afforded the opportunity."

A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, she is the first Aboriginal woman from Canada to complete her master's degree in Law at Harvard University. She received the Governor
General's Gold Medal in 2007 from the University of Ottawa for her dissertation "Critical Indigenous Legal Theory". Dr. Lindberg is an Associate Professor in the Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and Research at Athabasca University.

 

For more information, contact:

John O'Brien
Manager, Media Relations
Athabasca University
403-298-2931
403-990-1131 (cell)
jobrien@athabascau.ca

 

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