Humphries, Murray
Professor; McGill Northern Research Chair
Associate Director, Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment (CINE)
"I love wildlife and northern places and appreciate the opportunity to learn from others who know land and wildlife in their own way."
Ph.D., McGill University
M.Sc., University of Alberta
B.Sc. (hons.), University of Manitoba
- Nominee, finalist, and runner-up for President’s Medal, Society for Experimental Biology, London, UK (2011)
- McGill nominee for a NSERC Steacie Fellowship, awarded to enhance the career development of outstanding and highly promising university faculty who are earning a strong international reputation for original research (2007)
- Macdonald Campus Award for Teaching Excellence (2006)
- Three time co-nominee (2004-06) for the NSERC Brockhouse Prize for excellence in interdisciplinary research, nominated by Prof. David W. Schindler, winner of NSERC’s Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering (2004-2006)
Murray Humphries is Professor of Wildlife Biology in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University. His research group focuses on wildlife and environmental contributions to the traditional food systems of Indigenous Peoples. They work with northern research partners and collaborators, including federal and provincial governments, Indigenous governments and organizations, and local harvesters, to design and implement locally relevant field-based research at the interface of scientific and traditional ecological knowledge. Most projects combine community-based participatory research, local knowledge interviews, and ecological field studies. Murray serves as Associate Director of McGill’s Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment, focused on Indigenous Peoples’ concerns and priorities about their traditional food systems and environment through education, and initiatives conducted in partnership with Indigenous communities and organizations. He also serves as Co-research Director of Braiding Knowledges Canada, a not-for-profit focused on enhancing the influence of self-determined, place-based, and co-produced knowledge within Canada’s science culture such that, over time and on a path towards reconciliation, Indigenous and local knowledge approaches equitably contribute to public policy, decision-making, and the advancement of federal science priorities.
Active Affiliations
Co-Research Director, Braiding Knowledges Canada
Collaborative, community-based research projects in North Yukon, Nunavut, Nunavik, and Eeyou Istchee.
Wildlife and environmental contributions to the traditional food systems of Indigenous Peoples.