Dr. Marianne Ignace

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Biography

Marianne Ignace is a distinguished professor with a joint appointment in Indigenous Studies and serves as the Director of the Indigenous Languages Centre at Simon Fraser University. She completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, focusing her dissertation on the politics of Haida symbols, which was published under the title 'Curtain Haida Social Symbolic Discourse.' Over the past twenty years, Dr. Ignace has concentrated her research on the Secwepemc (Shuswap) people of the Plateau region, examining topics related to Aboriginal land use and occupancy, ethnobotany, traditional ecological knowledge, ethnohistory, and linguistic anthropological analysis of Aboriginal language discourse. She has authored and co-authored numerous papers and books exploring these themes and has conducted significant research in the area of Aboriginal language revitalization. Her work has been featured in the 'Handbook of Aboriginal Language Program Planning in British Columbia.' In recent years, Dr. Ignace has collaborated with various Nations and communities, working closely with elders on language revitalization projects, focusing on Secwepemctsin, St’at’imcets, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, and Haida Sm’algyax languages.

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Requirements for Simon Fraser University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:93
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy or related field
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Department of Philosophy