
Melissa Twance
Canada Research Chair in Land Pedagogies and Indigenous Futurities
Assistant Professor
mktwance@lakeheadu.ca
+1 807-343-8010ext. 8891
TBA
Academic Qualifications:
- PhD, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University
- MEd, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University
- HBA, Indigenous Learning, Lakehead University
Date joined Lakehead:
January 2025
Previous Teaching/Work:
Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Winnipeg
- EDUC-5001-250: Land-based Learning and Anishinaabe Art Practices
- EDUC-5001-251: Foundations of Land-Based Learning
Contract Lecturer, Indigenous Learning, Lakehead University
- INDI-2313: Indigenous Peoples and Urban Contexts
- INDI-2711: Indigenous Peoples, Myth, and Drama
- INDI-3435: Indigenous Peoples and the Land
Research Interests:
- land and community-based education
- Indigenous futurities
- anti-colonial and decolonial praxis
- relational making and relational pedagogy