Matthew I. Mitchell

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to this appointment, I was an Assistant Professor in the School of Conflict Studies at Saint Paul University and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research focuses on African politics, global indigenous politics, land tenure reform, migration and conflict, natural resources and governance, peacebuilding and political violence. My work has appeared in journals such as African Studies Review; Commonwealth & Comparative Politics; Conflict, Security & Development; Democratization; Ethnopolitics; Journal of Agrarian Change; Journal of Peace Research; Politics, Groups, and Identities; and The International Journal of Human Rights. I have also published in numerous edited volumes and am a co-editor of New Approaches to the Governance of Natural Resources: Insights from Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and People Changing Places: New Perspectives on Demography, Migration, Conflict, and the State (Routledge, 2019). I have conducted fieldwork in Canada, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Uganda, and is currently principal investigator on a SSHRC Insight Grant (2017-2023) titled “The Far North Act in Ontario and the Plan Nord in Québec: Sons of the Soil Conflicts in the Making?