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
In the News:
 

December 13, 2024

Lakehead announces new Canada Research Chair

Dr. Melissa Twance’s work under the five-year chairship will focus on how land-based learning and...