Sherry Pictou
Associate Professor of Law and Management; Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Governance (Tier 2)
Email: sherry.pictou@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-4092
Mailing Address:
PO Box 15000 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
- Mi鈥檏maw & Indigenous Land and Water-Based Governance
- Indigenous Food Systems
- Indigenous Women鈥檚 Political Life
- Rights and Activism
- Treaty Relations and Rights
- Mi鈥檏maw & Indigenous Land-Based Learning Practices
- Decolonization & Resurgence
- Multi-scalar Indigenous Peoples鈥� Movements
- Indigenous & Small-Scale Fisheries Movements
Education
- BA (Saint Mary's)
- BEd (Mount Allison)
- MA (Dalhousie)
- PhD (Dalhousie)
Bio
Dr. Sherry Pictou is a Mi鈥檏maw woman from L鈥檚扫tkuk (water cuts through high rocks) known as Bear River First Nation, Nova Scotia.聽 She worked as an Assistant Professor in the Women鈥檚 Studies Department at Mount Saint Vincent University with a focus on Indigenous Feminism (2017-2020). She is also a former Chief for her community and the former Co-Chair of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples. She is a member of the IPBES Task Force on Indigenous and Local Knowledge. Her research interests include decolonizing treaty relations, Social Justice for Indigenous Women, Indigenous women鈥檚 role in food and lifeways, and Indigenous knowledge and food systems.
Current Research
Dr. Pictou currently holds a SSHRC Partnership Grant in Partnership with KAIROS Building Indigenous-Academic-Not-for-Profit Relations for Mobilizing Research Knowledge on the Gendered Impacts of Resource Extraction in Indigenous Communities in Canada.
Pictou, S. and KAIROS (2019).聽 厂肠补濒补谤.听