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Dr. Veldon Coburn

Title: 
Associate Professor
Academic title(s): 

Director, Office of First Nations and Inuit Education | School of Continuing Studies Faculty Chair, Indigenous Relations Initiative

Dr. Veldon Coburn
Contact Information
Email address: 
veldon.coburn [at] mcgill.ca
Phone: 
514-396-2086
Address: 

Education Building
3700 rue McTavish
Montréal, Quebec H3A 1Y2
Canada

Group: 
Office Director
Department: 
Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE)
Area(s): 
Diversity, Identity and Indigenous Topics
Social Action and Sustainability Education
Areas of expertise: 
  • Indigenous politics and policy
Biography: 

Veldon Coburn is Anishinaabe, a citizen of the Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn First Nation.  Veldon is an Associate Professor at McGill University where he is the Director of the Office of First Nations and Inuit Education in the Faculty of Education and the Faculty Chair of the Indigenous Relations Initiative in the School of Continuing Studies. He earned degrees in economics and political science, and his PhD is from Queen’s University where his research focused on Indigenous politics and governance. Veldon arrived at McGill after previously teaching at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University. In addition to his academic pursuits, Dr. Coburn has over a decade of professional experience in program and strategic Indigenous policy with the Government of Canada as well as extensive experience working with Indigenous governments and organizations.

Link(s): 
M.A. Gilliam Institute for Global Food Security of McGill University (Steering Committee Member)
Centre on Governance (Director, Indigenous Governance Research Network)
Degree(s): 

PhD, Political Studies, Queen's University, Canada

Selected publications: 
  • Veldon Coburn. 2026. “CAQ-Indigenous Relations: minimal commitments with marginal efforts.” In Bilan du gouvernement de la CAQ (2022 – 2026): 150 promesses entre virages et revirements. Edited by Félix Mathieu, Shannon Dinan, Dominic Duval, and Lisa Birch, 147 - 156. Presses de l’Université Laval.
  • Nadia Abu-Zahra, John Carlson, and Veldon Coburn. 2026. “From Turtle Island to Palestine: settler-colonial Canada, genocide, and Indigenous foreign policy.” Third World Quarterly 47 (10): 1936 – 1967.
  • Veldon Coburn and Janique Dubois. 2025. “Towards Reconciliation? Successes and Setbacks in Trudeau’s Renewed Nation-to-Nation Relationship with Indigenous Peoples.” In Promises and Performance of Justin Trudeau’s Minority Governments (2019 – 2025): Navigating Through 697 Promises in Times of Crisis, edited by Alexandre Fortier-Chouinard, Lisa Birch, Gabriel Arsenault, Dominic Duval and Yannick Dufresne, 277 - 298. Presses de l’Université Laval.
  • Veldon Coburn. 2024. “Migrants in their Own Territory: Indigenous Displacement and Settler – Colonialism in Canada.” In In/To Canada: Forced Migration from Colonization to Resettlement, edited by Christina Clark-Kazak, 19 – 31. Montreal & Kingston: McGill – Queen’s University Press.
  • Veldon Coburn and Margaret Moore. 2022. “Occupancy, Land Rights and the Algonquin Anishinaabeg.” Canadian Journal of Political Science Vol. 55 (1): 1 – 18.
Program: 
Graduate supervision: 

Prospective graduate students applying to thesis programs in DISE will be asked to list their top choices for supervisors in their application. A supervisor will be assigned to new graduate students based on availability and other factors.

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