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2:30 - 4:00 PM

UNB Grad House

Dr. Jennifer Brant (OISE) is visiting Fredericton and will be participating in a small, public event at the UNB Grad House on June 2 from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM.

The focus of the event is on curriculum development around missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

All are welcome.

The event is co-sponsored by Native Studies and WSGS.

About Dr. Jennifer Brant

Dr. Jennifer Brant is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. She belongs to the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk Nation) with family ties to Six Nations of the Grand River Territory and Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Her research focuses on Indigenous maternal pedagogies as liberatory praxis, and she has been recognized with the 2023 Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies Outstanding Publication in Curriculum Studies Award for her article “Confronting Colonial Violences in and out the Classroom: Advancing Curricular Moves toward Justice through Indigenous Maternal Pedagogies.” Her doctoral research was also recongized by the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education “George L. Geis Dissertation Award" (2018). Dr. Brant is the current faculty co-chair of the Indigenous Education Network and the founding director of the Indigenous Literatures Lab. Her publications include the edited collection "Rematriating Justice: Honouring the Lives of Our Indigenous Sisters" (2024) and "Forever Loved: Exposing the hidden crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada" (2016) along with Dr. Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard. Dr. Brant teaches courses on Indigenous methodologies, Indigenous literatures, and structural and colonial violence in education. Her pedagogical and methodological innovations on Indigenous Maternal Praxis have made significant contributions across the fields of education, sociology and women and gender studies.