Dr. Vanessa Watts
Dr. Vanessa Watts is Mohawk and Anishinaabe Bear Clan, Six Nations of the Grand River. She is an associate professor of Indigenous Studies and Sociology at McMaster University, and holds the Paul R. MacPherson Chair in Indigenous Studies. Her research examines Indigenist epistemological and ontological interventions on place-based, material knowledge production. Vanessa is particularly interested in Indigenous feminisms, sociology of knowledge, Indigenous governance, and other-than-human relations as forms of Indigenous ways of knowing.