Kim Anderson

Associate Professor

Department of Family Relations & Applied Nutrition

Email:

kimberle@uoguelph.ca

Phone number:

519-824-4120 x58027

Office:

Macdonald Institute, Room 227A

Research interests : Indigenous gender, families and well-being; urban Indigenous peoples.

Department affiliation: FRHD

Description of research: I am an Indigenous (Metis) scholar and have spent most of my career working for Indigenous family well-being in Canada. The majority of my scholarship is qualitative, community engaged, interdisciplinary and applied; much of it employs oral history and Indigenous research methodologies. I have published on Indigenous mothering, Indigenous feminism, Indigenous masculinities, and Indigenous knowledge in urban settings. I have an evolving interest in arts based and land based methods of research. I am well suited to supervising students studying Indigenous families, Indigenous relationships, social and environmental justice, community building through Indigenous ways of knowing, and/or gender and Indigeneity.

Accepting graduate students:

Fall 2018: Yes

Fall 2019: Yes

CV July 2018

Researh Interests

My research has been primarily about the health and well-being of Indigenous families in Canada, and includes publishing in the following areas: Indigenous health and social well-being; gender and Indigenous peoples; Indigenous masculinities; Indigenous feminisms; Indigenous identity; Indigenous youth; Indigenous traditional knowledge; Indigenous environmental knowledge; and urban Indigenous peoples. I employ Indigenous and qualitative methods, and am beginning to apply more arts based methods in my work. I have conducted several research projects in collaboration with the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC); most recently on projects about Indigenous knowledge transfer in urban communities and gender and life stage factors in urban Indigenous governance. I have evolving research and teaching interests in land based education in urban settings as we as initiatives around “Indigenizing” the academy.

PhD (History) – University of Guelph, 2010

Masters (Adult Education, Sociology and Equity Studies) – OISE/University of Toronto, 1997

Anderson, Kim, Maria Campbell and Christi Belcourt, Eds. Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2018.

Anderson, Kim. A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood, 2^nd Edition. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2016.

Innes, Robert A. and Kim Anderson, Eds. Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2015.

Lavell-Harvard, Memee and Kim Anderson, Eds. Mothers of the Nations: Indigenous Mothering as Global Resistance, Reclaiming, Recovery. Bradford, ON: Demeter Press, 2014.

Anderson, Kim. Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2011.

What are the qualities of a student who would be successful in your lab?

I do a lot of community based research with Indigenous peoples and communities; experience in this area is very helpful. Writing skills and creativity are important in all the work that I do. Enthusiasm and hard work are much appreciated!

How would you describe your mentoring style?

I like to meet with students in person and host bi-weekly research team meetings in my office at Guelph.

Is there anything else you’d like your potential students to know?

Indigenous students will have access to distinct funding opportunities at Guelph and through Indigenous mentorship and networking grants.

I am working on projects in the following areas: Indigenous men and masculinities; land based learning in urban settings; Indigenizing the campus at Guelph; integrating Indigenous knowledge and Indigenizing campus activity in Ecuador.