National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Presentation: How Indigenous academic leaders think the academy can be transformed
About the Event
Join Dr. Jarita Greyeyes, nēhiyaw scholar from Muskeg Lake and Red Pheasant Cree Nations in Treaty Six territory, Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies at McMaster University, and founder of the Greyeyes Indigenizing Research Lab, for a keynote on Indigenous academic leadership and institutional transformation.
About Dr. Jarita Greyeyes
Dr. Jarita Greyeyes (she/her) is nēhiyaw of the Muskeg Lake and Red Pheasant bands of the Cree nation in Treaty Six territory and intergenerational residential school survivor. Jarita completed her doctoral training at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education and received her PhD in Sociology of Education and Race, Inequality and Language in Education in 2024. She was a 2019-2022 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation scholar and a Stanford University DARE (Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence) Doctoral Fellow. Before attending Stanford, she received degrees from the University of Winnipeg and University of Victoria and was the acting Associate Vice-President-Indigenous Affairs at the University of Winnipeg. As an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies at McMaster University Dr. Greyeyes’ research focuses on the indigenization of the academy. In 2025 she founded the Greyeyes Indigenizing Research Lab. Currently, the lab is working on two Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded projects and Jarita is the recipient of McMaster University’s Faculty of Social Science Scholar in Community Fellowship.
