Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Victoria
Deondre Smiles currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Geography. He is Black/Ojibwe/settler, and is a citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. Smiles is a geographer whose research interests are multifaceted, including Indigenous geographies/epistemologies, human-environmental interaction, political ecology, and tribal cultural resource preservation/protection. He currently serves as the Chair of the Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG); he is also a member of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), and the Canadian Association of Geographers. (CAG). He also serves as a member of the editorial board of the journal Native American and Indigenous Studies.
Experience
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–presentAssistant Professor of Geography, University of Victoria
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2020–2021President's Postdoctoral Scholar, The Ohio State University
Education
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2020The Ohio State University, Ph.D. in Geography
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2016University of Minnesota Duluth, M.L.S. in Global Indigenous Studies
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2013St. Cloud State University, Bachelor's in Geography
- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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