Director
L. M.
Findlay, M.A. (Aberdeen), D.Phil. (Oxford)
Office: ARTS
145.3
Office Telephone:
(306) 966-5517
Fax: (306)
966-5951
Email:
len.findlay@usask.ca
L.M. Findlay
(Len) was educated at Aberdeen Academy and the University of Aberdeen where
he graduated with a M.A. in English Language and Literature and was awarded
the Seafield Gold Medal for the most distinguished graduate in honours
English. After a summer Carnegie research scholarship, he took up a Senior
Scottish Studentship at Jesus College Oxford where he completed a D.Phil.
on “Swinburne and the Growth of Aestheticism.” He taught at the City of
Birmingham Polytechnic for two years before joining the University of Saskatchewan
where he is currently Professor of English and Co-Director of the Humanities
Research Unit which he helped found. He has served terms as President of
the Victorian Studies Association of Wesern Canada and the Association
of Canadian University Teachers of English, and as Humanities Vice-Chair
of the SHRCC Aid to Scholarly Publications Program. He has also served
as Vice-President (External Communications) of
the Canadian
Federation for the Humanities, on the editorial boards of journals such
as English Studies in Canada, Literature & History, Pre-Raphaelite
Review, Signature, Victorian Review, and Culture and Social History
and as senior policy analyst in the Universities Branch of the Saskatchewan
Department of Postsecondary Education and Skills Training. For the
academic year 2000-2001 he was the Northrop Frye Professor of Literary Theory
at the University of Toronto . He has published extensively on
nineteenth-century European literature and culture, and latterly on critical
theory, disciplinary history, and cultural studies. He has just received
(with Marie Battiste and Lynne Bell) a grant for a major research project on
Decolonizing Education.
Co-Director
Marie
Battiste, Ed. M. (Harvard), Ed. D. (Stanford)
Office: Room
3082 ED
Office Telephone:
(306) 966-7576
Email: marie.battiste@usask.ca
Dr. Marie
Battiste has been a Professor, Indian and Northern Education Program, Department
of Educational Foundations, at the University of Saskatchewan since 1993.
She is a Mi’kmaq of the Potlo’tek First Nation in Nova Scotia. A mother
of three, she and her husband J. Youngblood Henderson have made Saskatoon
their home after many years living in Eskasoni Reserve and working among
First Nations schools and community organizations.
She has several
earned degrees: Ed. D. (1984) Stanford University; Ed. M. (1974) Harvard
University; B.S. (1971) University of Maine, Farmington and two honorary
degrees: D.H.L. (1997) University of Maine, Farmington; LL.D. (1987) St.
Mary's University.
Her historical
research of Mi'kmaw literacy and education as a graduate student at Harvard
University and later at Stanford University where she received her doctorate
degree in curriculum and teacher education provided the foundation for
her later writings in cognitive imperialism, linguistic and cultural integrity,
and decolonization of Aboriginal education. She has worked actively with
First Nations schools and communities as an administrator, teacher, consultant,
and curriculum developer, advancing Aboriginal epistemology, languages,
pedagogy, and research. Her research interests are in initiating
institutional change in the decolonization of education, language and social
justice policy and power, and educational approaches that recognize and
affirm the political and cultural diversity of Canada and the ethical protection
of Indigenous knowledge.
She has published
many articles and scholarly papers in books, journals and documents and
remains involved in research on Aboriginal education, languages and teachers
and teacher education. She is co-author of Protecting Indigenous
Knowledge: A Gobal Challenge, (Saskatoon, SK: Purich Press, 2000),
editor of Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision, (Vancouver:
UBC Press, 2000) and co-editor of First Nations Education in Canada:
The Circle Unfolds, (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1995). She recently received
the 2000 First Peoples Publishing Award for Protecting Indigenous Knowledge
and Heritage: A Global Challenge from Saskatchewan Book Awards.
Dr. Battiste
is a Board Member of the International Research Institute for Maori and
Indigenous Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand, since 1999 and
a Board of Governor, International Development Research Centre (IDRC) since
1997. She is former Board of Governor member for University College of
Cape Breton and Dalhousie University.
