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Professor of Practice in Sociology, University of San Diego

I am a Professor of Practice in Sociology at the University of San Diego. An anthropologist by training and profession, I've done fieldwork in many countries, including Mali, Namibia, and northern Canada. I'm an expert on indigenous rights movements in Canada, Europe, and Africa. I have published ten nonfiction books that investigate such issues as digital security, surveillance, and human rights. Most recently I've written a novel about war crimes investigation, The Memory Seeker, released in February, 2023. Much of my current research uses open source investigation techniques, for which I received training in the Human Rights Center at Berkeley, the NGO Bellingcat, and the Institute for International Criminal Investigations in The Hague.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Professor of Practice, University of San Diego
  • 2020–2022
    Distinguished James McGill Professor, McGill University
  • 2019–2020
    Visiting Professor, Harvard University
  • 2013–2020
    Pearson Chair, Law and Anthropology, McGill University
  • 2008–2013
    Professor, McGill University
  • 2005–2008
    Associate professor, McGill University
  • 2004–2005
    Visiting associate professor, McGill University
  • 2003–2004
    Visitor, Humboldt University, Berlin
  • 2001–2003
    Visitor, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
  • 1998–2000
    Research scientist, Pimicikamak Cree Nation
  • 1994–1998
    Associate professor, Harvard University
  • 1989–1994
    Assistant professor, Harvard University
  • 1987–1989
    Lecturer, Concordia University

Education

  • 1987 
    Cambridge University, PhD, Social Anthropology

Publications

  • 2023
    The Memory Seeker, Black Rose Writing
  • 2022
    Narratives of Mass Atrocity (Ed. With Sarah Federman), Cambridge University Press
  • 2020
    #Human Rights, Stanford University Press
  • 2017
    Truth and Indignation: Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools, University of Toronto Press
  • 2017
    Palaces of Hope (Ed. With Maria Sapignoli), Cambridge University Press
  • 2010
    Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law, Cambridge University Press
  • 2009
    The Rediscovered Self: Indigenous Identity and Cultural Justice, McGill University Press
  • 2008
    Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree Society, Prentice Hall
  • 2004
    A World Beyond Difference, Blackwell
  • 2003
    The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity, University of California Press
  • 2000
    Spirit Wars: Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building, University of California Press

Grants and Contracts

  • 2020
    SSHRC Insight Grant
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • 2012
    Tier 1 Canada Research Chair
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Canada Research Chairs
  • 2011
    SSHRC Insight Grant
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • 2007
    CIHR Team Grant
    Role:
    Co-Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Canadian Institutes of Health Research
  • 2005
    Tier 1 Canada Research Chair
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Canada Research Chairs