Adam Gaudry, PhD

Area of Study / Keywords

Métis studies Indigenous research methods Land-based Learning Indigenization in Canadian Higher Education

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About

Adam Gaudry, Ph.D. serves as Vice-Dean and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. He is a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation His family is Red River Metis from the Lake-of-the-Woods in Northwestern Ontario, having migrated there from Southern Manitoba.

Adam received his Ph.D. from the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria and completed his MA in Sociology and BAH in Political Studies from Queen’s University. He is a past Henry Roe Cloud Fellow at Yale University.

He has published extensively on Métis history and governance, Indigenous research methodologies, as well as indigenization policy in Canadian higher education. Adam’s work has been published in Native American and Indigenous Studies, American Indian Quarterly, AlterNative, Critical Ethnic Studies, The Wicazo Sa Review, aboriginal policy studies, the Canadian Journal of Native Education, the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, The Canadian Encyclopedia, and numerous edited collections. 

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Research

Dr. Gaudry's research focuses on three areas.

The first is, The Manitoba Treaty, a book-length analysis on nineteenth-century Métis political thought and the Métis-Canada treaty of 1870, currently under contract with the University of Manitoba Press. 

The second is, Ganahghootr'onatan, a land-based learning course focusing on Gwich'in traditional knowledge, history, and governance in Teetł'it Zheh, NWT.

The third explores the process of Indigenization of higher education in Canada, analyzing the successes, failures, and best practices in the Canadian post-secondary system.

For graduate supervision, Dr. Gaudry is able to supervise students in the following areas:

• Métis history, Métis governance, and Métis political thought
• Indigenous research methodologies
• Land-based learning and decolonial approaches to higher education
• Indigenization policy and outcomes in Canada

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Teaching

NS 320 - Indigenous Politics and Diplomacy

NS 404/504 - Colonialism and Decolonization - taught jointly at BA and MA level

NS 655 - Professional Seminar

This professional development course helps develop the intellectual independence transferable to employment within and outside the academy, including the creativity to solve complex situations through the exercise of responsibility and autonomy. From an Indigenous Studies perspective, this course introduces students to career development and professional issues within the academy, and the public and private sectors. Students will work on developing their research and writing skills to a level that will satisfy peer review and merit publication. Students will work on orally communicating complex ideas cogently, clearly and effectively. Students will work on the technical skills required for writing for different audiences and within the PhD process including, in particular, the preparation of comprehensive and candidacy examinations, as well as completing a dissertation in a timely manner.

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Browse more courses taught by Adam Gaudry

Adam Gaudry, Danielle E. Lorenz

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples. 2018 January; 14 (3):218-227

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Karen Drake, Adam Gaudry

Osgoode Hall Law Journal. 2016 January; 54 (1):1-52

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Adam Gaudry

aboriginal policy studies. 2013 January; 2 (2):64-87

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Adam Gaudry

Wicazo Sa Review. 2011 January; 26 (1):113-136