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Full Professor
Faculty of Arts
Classics and Religious Studies

Contact information:

Office: (613) 562-5800 X1176
E-mail: eanderso@uottawa.ca
Website Includes CV, syllabi, media interviews

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

• Contemporary Roman Catholicism
• The papacy of Pope Francis I
• The history of Catholicism in Canada
• Indigenous peoples and the ongoing impact of residential schools
• First Nations' relationship with the Catholic Church (historically and contemporaneously)
• Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
• Missionaries and Indigenous peoples in seventeenth-century Canada
• Traditional Indigenous spiritualities
• Indigenous Catholicism
• Indigenous pilgrimages in Canada
• The role of Saint Anne in Indigenous Catholicism
• Popular and "lived" religion
• Catholic veneration of the Virgin Mary and of saints
• Relics and miracles
• The canonization process in the Catholic Church
• Christian martyrdom
• Jean de Brébeuf and the cult of the North American Martyrs
• Catholic shrines and pilgrimages
• Marian apparitions (visions of the Virgin Mary)
• Vatican II and the Quiet Revolution in Quebec
• Multiculturalism and religion in contemporary Canada

Area(s) of expertise:

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• 20th century
• Aboriginal history
• Aboriginal Studies
• Canadian history
• Canadian studies
• Classics and religious studies
• Cultural history
• European history
• French-Canadian culture
• History of art
• History of religious communities
• Indigenous Conceptions
• Medieval studies
• New France
• North America
• Postcolonial studies
• Religion
• uOttawa

Language preference:

English and French

Director of Teacher Education
Associate professor
Faculty of Education

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (2239)
Cell: 613-866-1203
E-mail: nngafook@uottawa.ca
Website

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Cell Telephone, Office Telephone

Research information:

Dr. Ng-A-Fook is the Director of the Teacher Education program at the University of Ottawa. He is the President-elect of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), the largest professional association for educational research in Canada. His main areas of expertise are the following: curriculum studies; educational policy reform and implementation; Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations within the contexts of public education and educational mandates of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; life history research; community-university research partnerships; social innovation; and brokering knowledge mobilization.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Citizenship education
• Culture
• Curriculum
• E-learning
• Globalization
• Human rights
• Indigenous Conceptions
• Legislation and learning
• Native teacher education
• Teacher training

Language preference:

English and French

Professor
Part-time professor
Faculty of Arts
History

Contact information:

Cell: 613-762-7822
Home: 613-837-0058
E-mail: msaavedr@uOttawa.ca

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Home Telephone

Research information:

Indigenous perspectives, indigenous cosmovisions, indigenous epistemologies, development, globalization, sustainable development, indigenous governance

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Aboriginal history
• Aboriginal Studies
• American history
• Climate change
• Colonization
• Communications and technology
• Environmental economics
• Food security
• Foreign aid
• Global warming
• Globalization
• Globalization
• Indigenous Conceptions
• Indigenous Prophecies
• Indigenous Responsibilities
• Indigenous Rights
• International development
• Latin America
• Moral philosophy
• Native teacher education
• Other
• Sustainable development

Language preference:

English and French , Spanish