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Ann Marie Murnaghan
Dr. Murnaghan is the Principal Investigator for this project, and an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities at York University in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Murnaghan’s research expertise is in archival research and children’s geographies.
The co-editor of Children, Nature, Cities (Routledge, 2016), and North American editor of Children’s Geographies, she has published widely on a variety of topics relating to children and immigration. She directs the Archival Research phase of the project.
Tyler McCreary
Dr. McCreary is the Co-Applicant for this project, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Florida State University in Tallahassee, United States. He holds adjunct professor positions at both the University of Northern British Columbia and Royal Roads University. McCreary’s expertise is in Indigenous community-based research, specifically working with the Witsuwit’en for over twelve years.
He has published two books and fourteen journal articles on Witsuwit’en issues and Aboriginal sovereignty in the region. He directs the Community-Based Research phase of the project.
Joanne Connauton
Joanne Connauton is Project Manager of this project and a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at Florida State University (FSU). Joanne is an Anishinaabe/Settler scholar and a member of Wahnapitae First Nation in Ontario, Canada. She was born and raised in British Columbia and has lived the bulk of her adult life on Witsuwit'en territory near Smithers, BC. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Joanne worked for over a decade at Smithers Community Services leading the Community Learning Program and more recently with Indigenous nations on Vancouver Island engaged in the BC Modern Treaty process. She recently co-authored and published a journal article with Drs. Douglas Allen and Tyler McCreary titled - "Landscapes of white supremacy and settler colonialism: Stone Mountain, Mount Rushmore and the contested geographies of memory in America."
Lisa Smith
Lisa Smith is the translation assistant for this project, and a PhD student in the Department of Humanities at York University. Lisa earned her BA in French and History from the University of Nottingham, and her MEd from York University. She has worked in primary and secondary schools in the United Kingdom and Canada, and with adult learners in both formal and informal settings. She has a particular interest in English as an additional language teaching and translanguaging.