Department: L'nu, Political, and Social Studies, School of Arts and Social S

Katie MacLeod

Lecturer

Dr. Katie MacLeod has a background in Indigenous relations, ethnic and linguistic minority issues, and community development. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from Dalhousie University, a MA in Anthropology from Carleton University and a BA (Hons) in Social Anthropology from Dalhousie University. Her research interests include social and cultural reproduction, ethnicity, and how local histories inform the present. She teaches courses in anthropology, sociology, and community studies.

Expertise:

Indigenous-settler relations, Indigenous research ethics, and Acadian-Mi�kmaq relations, Acadian identities, Minority language retention, Acadian nationalism, ethnohistory, ethnography, qualitative research

Unama’ki espi-kina’matno’kuom etek Mi’kma’ki, wla na no’kamanaq aq maqamikewminu mena’qiknmuetuk.

Cape Breton University is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaw People.