Tara Joly

Indigenous Environmental Planning | Gender and Women's Studies | Health and Well-being | Indigenous Peoples | Natural Resources | Northern Issues | Sustainability | First Nations | Anthropology | Human Rights | Environment | Community | Geography | Pedagogy | Culture | History | Health | Dr. Joly has conducted numerous applied research projects with Indigenous Nations in northern Alberta and British Columbia, including community-based research, Indigenous land use/impact assessments, social scientific technical reviews, Indigenous environmental monitoring research, and oral history research. Her research includes varied intersections between Indigenous rights, extractive industries, histories of dispossession, gendered violence, settler colonialism, human-environment relations, history of science, research methodologies, and interdisciplinary studies.

Tara Joly is a 10th generation Euro-Canadian settler who is grateful to have lived in unceded traditional Lheidli T'enneh territory since 2016. She is trained as an environmental anthropologist and specializes in applied and community-based research with Indigenous peoples in northwestern Canada. Broadly speaking, Joly's work documents how settler colonial governments attempt to remake Indigenous land into extractive territory or settler home; and explores and supports processes by which Indigenous peoples assert sovereignty and renew relationships to place, regardless of these attempts. Dr. Joly is also an Adjunct Professor in Anthropology at UNBC, and an Adjunct Professor in Archaeology & Anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan.