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Merissa Daborn

(she/her)
Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba

Dr. Merissa Daborn is a white scholar and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba where she researches at the intersections of food, technoscience, surveillance, policing, policy, and whiteness.

Her latest research is focussed on the relationship between citizen surveillance, policing, and grocery stores as carceral spaces in Winnipeg.

Merissa is a member of the Indigenous STS Lab in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. She is dedicated to research in the areas of urban Indigenous studies and Indigenous STS (science, technology, and society).

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba

Education

  • 2021 
    University of Alberta, Indigenous Studies, PhD