Biography

Wendy Wickwire, PhD

Dr Wendy Wickwire is a long-time supporter of POLIS and the former Eco-Research Chair, and continues to provide encouragement and advice. She is cross appointed in the School of Environmental Studies and the Department of History, and an assocate faculty member with the Indigenous Governance Program. In ES she teaches a course called ES 481: Aboriginal Peoples and the Environmental History of British Columbia and she teaches a range of related courses in the Department of History, such as History 358: Observers Observed: Anthropologists and First Nations in British Columbia, 1880-1940, and History 469: Oral History: Theory and Method.

Since 2005, Dr Wickwire has been working on a three year SSHRC grant called “James A. Teit and the Historical Challenge of Anthropology in the Boasian Era”. The focus of this project is an intellectual biography of Teit, an early ethnographer and political activist who worked with Aboriginal peoples throughout the province during the first two decades of the twentieth century.

For a listing of Dr. Wickwire's major publications, please visit the History website or the  ES website.