Kelsey Wrightson, PhD
Pronouns: she/her
Contact
Senior Research Partner, VPRI, Vice-President Research Innovation
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Indigenous Studies Decolonization Circumpolar North Community-based Research Cultural Studies
About
I come to the University of Alberta from Denendeh, where I worked between 2017 and 2025 at Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, co-developing and delivering Indigenous and community led research and educational programming in the Yukon, Nunuvut and the Northwest Territories. Prior to this, I completed my PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia on the unceded lands of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh nations. I completed a BA in Political Science and an MA in Cultural Social and Political Thought from the University of Victoria on the unceded lands of the Lək̓ʷəŋən W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.
Featured Publications
Cohen, A., Matthew, M., Neville, K. J., & Wrightson, K.
Annals of the American Association of Gewographers. 2021 January; 111 (7):1988-2004
Kelsey R Wrightson
Borderland Journal. 2020 January; 19 (2):157-171
Kelsey R Wrightson
Museum Anthropology. 2017 January; 40 (1):36-51