Dianne Miller
Department Head
Grad Chair

• History of women and education; feminist theory;
• Teacher history; educational biography;
• Life history; poetry

Marie Battiste

Office ED 3082
Phone (306) 966-7576
marie.battiste@usask.ca

• Nourishing the learning Spirit in Aboriginal lifelong learning; Antiracism and Violence prevention;
• Decolonizing Aboriginal and university education;
• Renewal and reconstruction of Aboriginal peoples' language and culture;
• Protection of Aboriginal knowledge, heritage and culture;
• Research and ethics involving Indigenous Peoples;
• Research on the retention and access of university for Aboriginal graduate students;
• Ethnographic and historical studies of Indigenous education.

Margaret Kovach

Office ED 3083
Phone (306) 966-7515
margaret.kovach@usask.ca

• Adult education; Indigenous research methodologies; Indigenous curriculum development;
• Indigenous higher learning & leadership; Distance education;
• Educational policy and practice;

Lynn Lemisko
(On Leave from Department)

Office ED 3361
Phone (306) 966-7581
lynn.lemisko@usask.ca

•  History of Education & the History of Ideas;
• Teacher Education;
• Global & Citizenship Education
• Critical multiculturalism
• Educating for Social & Ecological Justice

Marcia McKenzie

Office ED 3090
Phone (306) 966-7551
marcia.mckenzie@usask.ca

• Place, environment, and sustainability; Social justice, globalization, & critical issues;
• Educational policy and practice; Youth culture and activism; Social and cultural theory;
• Participatory forms of education and research;
• Methodologies and politics of research;
• Media and technology

Janet McVittie

Office ED 3025
Phone (306) 966-7582
janet.mcvittie@usask.ca

• place based / sustainability education;
• social justice and critical issues
• inquiry and assessment for learning;
• creating of learning communities

Shaun Murphy

Office ED 3019
Phone (306) 966-7586
shaun.murphy@usask.ca

• Interwoven identities and lives of children/youth, families, and teachers.
• Familial curriculum making
• Narrative Inquiry
• Life writing
• Foundations of curriculum
• Narrative Inquiry as pedagogy

Paul Orlowski

Office ED 3033
Phone (306) 966-6907
paul.orlowski@usask.ca

• Sociology of Education
• Social Studies Education; Critical Pedagogy; Pedagogy & Progressive Christianity
• Anti-racist pedagogy
• Teaching for Democracy; Teaching for Class Consciousness; Critical Media Literacy

Robert Regnier
(On Leave from Department)

• Learning as Valuing: A critical process approach;
• Ecological education;
• Teaching and learning at university;
• Philosophy of education;
• Process Philosophy;
• Gentle teaching;
• Indigenous education

Verna St. Denis

Office ED 3083
Phone (306) 966-2734
verna.stdenis@usask.ca

• Critical Anthropology; Anti-colonial, Critical Race, and poststructuralist, theory;
• Anti-racist/anti-oppressive teacher education; Work life of Indigenous teachers;
• Critical multiculturalism; feminist theory; Cross-cultural research methods

Alexandria Wilson

Office ED 3085
Phone (306) 966-7679
alex.wilson@usask.ca

• Indigenous knowledge;
• Cross-Cultural research methodologies; Gay, lesbian and two-spirit narratives; Aboriginal
• Health and well being;
• Violence prevention;
• Criminal and civil justice system response to domestic violence;
• Community-based research; Faculty advisor for STARS (Student Teachers Against Anti-Racism).

Karla Jessen Williamson

Office ED 3100
Phone (306) 966-5262
karla.jwilliamson@usask.ca

• Discourses on epistemologies;
• Cross-culturality; Multi-culturalism; Inuit World views; Gender relations; Resilience and Aboriginal peoples; Aboriginal higher learning; Arctic peoples and governance

Howard Woodhouse

Office ED 3089
Phone (306) 966-7522
howard.woodhouse@usask.ca

• Academic freedom and university autonomy;
• Process Philosophy;
• Global and international education;
• Teaching and learning in higher education;
• History and Philosophy of education;
• The teacher scholar