Our second episode features Dr. Cora Voyageur, a full Professor who joined the Department of Sociology at The UofC in 1989, and is currently the longest serving faculty member in our department. Cora reflects on her career with our department, changes regarding research with Indigenous communities, as well as challenges and favourite memories over the years.
Dr. Voyeur, who is a member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, reflects on the increasing diversity of faculty at the university over the years, and her active community engagement both at the national and international level. Dr. Voyageur discusses the changes regarding research with Indigenous communities; i.e., away from an extractive, colonial framework emphasizing pathology and maladaptation to one that is strengths-based, and centers principles of OCAP (ownership, control, access and possession). Dr. Voyageur also recalls favourite memories and considers what is next for sociology as a discipline moving forward.