Jocelyn Thorpe is a settler scholar who arrived at the University of Manitoba in 2012 and is cross-appointed in Women’s and Gender Studies and History. In 2021, she became director of the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture. With Kaila Johnston at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and Julie Lafreniere at the Winnipeg Art Gallery—Qaumajuq, she has co-curated the Decolonizing Lens Film and Discussion Series since 2016.
Publications/Papers
Joe, Chief Mi’sel, Sheila O’Neill, Jessica Bound and Jocelyn Thorpe. 2023. “Newfoundland Mi’kmaw Resistance and Vibrancy in a History of Erasure.” Canadian Historical Review 103, no. 3.,
Thorpe, Jocelyn, and Kaila Johnston. 2023. “More Than Entertainment: Indigenous Women Are Teaching through Filmmaking”. At The Forks 2 (1). https://ojs.lib.umanitoba.ca/index.php/forks/article/view/936.,
Thorpe, Jocelyn, Stephanie Rutherford and L. Anders Sandberg, eds. 2017. “Methodological Challenges in Nature-Culture and Environmental History Research.” London and New York: Routledge.
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