Dr. Janelle Baker

I'm part of an ongoing collaboration with Bigstone Cree Nation on sakâwiyiniwak (Northern Bush Cree) experiences with traditional food contamination in what is now known as northern Alberta (oil sands and forestry use of pesticides). This work involves community based environmental monitoring to protect food sovereignty of plants, water, and wildlife (moose) in Bigstone Cree Nation territory. I’m also part of a team that collaborates with Stoney Nakoda Nations on restorying bull trout in the eastern slopes of the Rockies and supporting women to measure selenium in traditional foods.

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Research interests

Ethnography of contamination, environmental and ecological anthropology, ethnobiology and ethnoecology, post-humanism and the anthropocene, anthropology of food, community-based research methods, political ecology, ethnographic writing

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Educational credentials

• Bachelor of Arts, First Class Honours, Anthropology, University of Calgary
• Master of Arts, Anthropology, University of Alberta
• PhD, Anthropology, McGill University

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Professional affiliations

• Current Lead Author and task force member on Indigenous Knowledge and Local Knowledge content for the United Nations Environment Programme Global Environment Outlook (GEO)-7
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Saskatchewan
• International Society of Ethnobiology Vice President Elect
• Co-Editor, Ethnobiology Letters
• Freshwater Fish Futures, Member
• Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts, Affiliated Researcher
• Alberta Indigenous Mentorship in Health Innovation (AIM-HI) Network, Partner
• Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives, Partner
• Cultural Politics of Energy in Northern Alberta, Co-Applicant
• Global Environments Network, Member

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