Dr. Nykkie Lugosi-Schimpf, PhD, MA, BA Hons.

Contact

Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies

Email: nicole.lugosi@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Structural Racism Nationhood Identity Discourse/Frame/Media Analysis Urban Sites of Resistance

About

Dr. Nykkie Lugosi-Schimpf (Otipemisiwak) is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies, a proud alum of the Transition Year Program (TYP), and a long-standing member of the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies Academic Advisory Board (WAAB). She hails from Winnipeg and grew up there and Toronto before moving to Edmonton.

Research

Nykkie’s work is comparative and examines structural racism and polarization in Canada and Central Eastern Europe in areas of immigration, education, and the criminal justice system, with a focus on urban Indigenous and Romani representation and reclamation. Current research projects include: Confronting Nationalist Narratives: Educating Newcomers about Indigenous Canada and kâmâmawi-kitohcikehk ᑳᒫᒪᐏᑭᑐᐦᒋᑫᕽ: A Cree Approach to Belonging though Making-Music.

Media:

University Affairs Story by Sparrow McGowan.

April 14, 2022. “Multi-university project uses digital literacy to fight discrimination.”

https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/multi-university-project-uses-digital-literacy-to-fight-discrimination/

CBC Radio-Canada (in French)

May 8, 2021. "Des étudiants augmentent la représentativité autochtone sur Wikipédia."

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1791592/wikipedia-autochtone-diversite-culture-alberta-education

University of Alberta Folio Story by Jordan M. Cook.

April 30, 2021. "Bringing Indigenous Perspectives to Wikipedia."

https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2021/04/students-bring-indigenous-perspectives-to-wikipedia.html

Dan Levy talks with Dr. Tracy Bear and Dr. Paul Gareau from the University of Alberta, with special guest Dr. Nykkie Lugosi. YouTube.

September 27, 2020. "Indigenous Canada Module 6: A Modern Indian?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn2nxgAhf7I&t=3045s

HUM 101 Radio Segment

October 16, 2020. "Introduction and thinking about were we are."

https://hum101onair.wordpress.com/2020/10/11/week-1/

WikiEdu Blog Post by Helaine Blumenthal

January 13, 2021. "Improving Wikipedia's Coverage of Indigenous Canadians."

https://wikiedu.org/blog/2021/01/13/improving-wikipedias-coverage-of-indigenous-canadians/

Featured Publications

Theorizing and implementing meaningful Indigenization: Wikipedia as an opportunity for course-based digital advocacy

Nicole VT Lugosi[-Schimpf], Nicole Patrie, and Kris Cromwell

Critical Studies in Education . 2022 May; Online First 10.1080/17508487.2022.2074489

Indigenising International Relations: Insights from Centring Indigeneity in Canada and Iraq

Mariam Georgis and Nicole Lugosi-Schimpf

Millennium Journal of International Studies . 2021 December; 50 (1):174-198 10.1177/03058298211055218

“Words That Hurt Democracy: The Sticks and Stones of Anti-Democratic Discourse in Hungary and Germany”. In Political Incivility in the Parliamentary, Electoral and Media Arena: Crossing boundaries (Ed. Annmarie Walter).

Nicole Lugosi-Schimpf and Lori Thorlakson

London: Routledge. 2021 February;

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