Dr. Erica Neeganagwedgin, PhD
Associate Professor - Critical Policy, Equity and Leadership Studies
MA, PhD (University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education)
Dr. Erica Neeganagwedgin, PhD
Associate Professor - Critical Policy, Equity and Leadership Studies
MA, PhD (University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education)
Erica Neeganagwedgin Ph.D. (Taino) is an Associate Professor in Critical Policy, Equity and Leadership Studies at Western University’s Faculty of Education. She graduated from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto where she earned a Master of Arts degree with a specialization in Indigenous Education and a Ph.D. in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education. Her areas of teaching and research interests include Indigenous knowledge systems and Intellectual Traditions; Indigenous epistemologies; Indigenous history and educational policies; history of Indigenous Education in North American contexts and Indigenous Research Methodologies.
In The News
Recent Publications
Chapters & Journal Articles
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2022). Indigenous Science Knowledge and Epistemologies in Practice: Living Everyday Research. Journal of Indigenous Social Development, 11(1), 145-158. https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jisd/article/view/73893
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2022) “Taino Lands and Taino knowledge”: Disrupting dominant construction of Caribbean Indigenous Peoples in (eds) Tate. S. & Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Palgrave Handbook of Critical Race and Gender. Palgrave Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83947-5_19
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2022). Caribbean Indigenous Experiences of Erasure: Movement, Memory and Knowing. Analecta Politica, 12(22), 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.18566/apolit.v12n22.a01
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2021). Reflections on Land Back and Education. Rooted: An Indigenous Law Publication. Vol 1. Issue 2. Pp. 43-47. Indigenous Law Association at McGill, McGill University.
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2021). Creating Community in Digital Learning Spaces as Embodiment of Indigenous Self-Determination. Journal of Global Indigeneity, 5(1), pp.1–15.
Neeganagwdgin, E. (2020). Indigenous Ancestral Lands and Elders' Epistemogies in a Time of Pandemic. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 16(4), 406-408.
Neeganagwdgin, E. (2020). Enacting Indigenous Community Relationships and Governance Systems as a Framework for Teaching and Learning. Journal of Indigenous Social Development, 9(3), 183–192.
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2020). Embodying Indigenous Education and Intellectual Systems as a Framework for Teaching and Learning; Canadian Journal of Native Studies. Vol 30 #2.
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2020). Indigenous Lands and Territories: Self-Determination, Activism and Canada’s White Paper. Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations. XXI, No. 1.
Neeganagwedgin, E. & Opini, B. (2020). Instructional Design and pedagogy; Reconceptualizing Practises, In (eds). Andre Elias Mazawi and Michelle Stack. Course Syllabi in Faculties of Education across the world. Bodies of Knowledge and Their Discontents. Bloomsbury Critical Education. Bloomsbury Academic Publishers.
Opini, B. & Neeganagwedgin, E. (2020) Centering Indigenous and Decolonizing pedagogy; The complexities, tensions and possibilities of doing spirit work in teacher education. In (eds). Andre Elias Mazawi and Michelle Stack. Course Syllabi in Faculties of Education across the world. Bodies of Knowledge and Their Discontents. Bloomsbury Critical Education. Bloomsbury Academic Publishers.
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2019). Indigenous systems of Knowledge and Transformative Learning Practices: Turning the gaze upside down; Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education.
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2019). “There needs to be full recognition of who we are beyond symbolic gestures:” Indigenous People’s Stories about Their Education and Experiences. Journal of American Indian Education, Vol. 58, No. 1 & 2.
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2019). Since time immemorial: A historical review of Canada’s policy of extinguishment of Indigenous peoples through its Indian Act. ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples' Cultures.
Neeganagwedgin. E. (2015). Taino Identity, Oral History and Stories of Reclamation in Contemporary Contexts AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
Neeganagwedgin, E. (April 2014) “They can't beat our ancestors out of us:” A historical account of Canada’s residential school system, incarceration, institutionalized policies and legislations against Indigenous peoples. The Association for Canadian Studies, Canadian Issues
Wane, N. & Neeganagwedgin E. (November 2013) Introduction in(eds) Wane, N. and Neegan, E. Indigenous Traditional Healing Approaches and Research Practices; Toronto: Nsemia Publishing.
Neeganagwedgin E. and S. Mungari (November 2013) Healing Practices of Kenyan Traditional Healers: A Dialogue/Interview in (eds) Wane, N. and Neegan, E. Indigenous Traditional Healing Approaches and Research Practices; Toronto: Nsemia Publishing.
Neeganagwedgin. E. (December 2013). Ancestral Knowledges, Spirituality and Indigenous Narratives as Self-determination. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples. Vol. 9 #4.
Neeganagwedgin, E. (March 2012) “Chattling the Indigenous Other”: A Historical Examination of the Enslavement of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. Vol. 8, no.1. AlterNative, An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples.
Neeganagwedgin, E. (June 2011). A critical review of Aboriginal Education in Canada: Eurocentric dominance impact and everyday denial International Journal of Inclusive Education. Volume 15:1.
Book Reviews
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2021). Sheila Carr-Stewart, ed. Knowing the Past, Facing the Future: Indigenous Education in Canada. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, Purich Books, 2019. 312 pp. History of Education Quarterly, 61(1), 109-112. https://doi.org/10.1017/heq.2020.72
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2018). Indigenous Community: Rekindling the Teachings of the Seventh Fire by Gregory A. Cajete (review). Native American and Indigenous Studies 5(1), 217-218. University of Minnesota Press.
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2015) A deeper sense of place: Stories and Journeys of Collaboration in Indigenous Research (Ed) Jay T. Johnson and Soren C. Larsen: Oregon State University Press: Norman Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. Colorado.
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2015). The students of Sherman Indian School: Education and Native Identity Since 1892: Bahr. Meyers Diana: University of Oklahoma Press. Journal of Native American and Indigenous Studies.
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2014) Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People’s Encounters with the police: Comack. Elizabeth: Winnipeg, Fernwood Publishing. Journal Laour/Le Travail.
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2013) For Indigenous minds only: A decolonization handbook (eds) Waziyatawin & Michael Yellow Bird, School for Advanced Research Press: Sante Fe, Indigenous Peoples Issues &Resources. Boulder, Colorado.
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2013) The Quest for Citizenship African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880-1935 by Kim Carey Warren. The University of North Carolina Press, 2010; The Journal of Negro Education.
Neeganagwedgin, E. (2012) Telling stories in the face of danger (ed) Paul V Kroskrity: University of Oklahoma Press: Norman Indigenous Peoples Issues &Resources. Boulder, Colorado.
Teaching and Supervision
- Indigeneity and Decolonizing Research (MA & PhD) GRADEDUC 9204
- Doing Educational Research, 9454 (Aboriginal Education)
