Katja Buchholz

Katja (she/her) is a mother to her two-year-old son, Miyoskamin, and a recent graduate from Brandon University. At BU, Katja received her Honors degree in history and wrote about the forced relocation and flooding of Chemawawin Cree Nation for her major paper, focusing on the community’s resiliency and resistance.

Her research interests include Indigenous-settler relations, land management in Canada, social movements and resistance, labour, women’s, and queer history. Some of the topics she wrote about in her undergrad degree include Stonewall and queer historiography, the Brandon Mental Health Centre, gendered violence during the Bangladesh Liberation War, the depiction of women as possessed in western horror films, and Filipino care labour in Canada.

She has enjoyed working for the Centre for Human Rights Research on the History in the Hot Seat: Colonialism and the Knowing and Teaching of Canada’s Past project, where she has gotten the opportunity to investigate how Canada’s history has been discussed in popular media in recent years.