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Paige Raibmon is a professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. She received her PhD and MA in History from Duke University and a BA in History Honours from UBC. Her research engages a range of questions focused on Indigenous peoples' endurance and resurgence in the face of settler colonialism, particularly through the lens of the nineteenth and twentieth-century Northwest Coast. She is deeply committed to collaborative community-based research practices and has a keen interest in new modes of research dissemination. Raibmon's work includes a strong emphasis on digital humanities, oral history, social movements, and public history. Her noteworthy publications include 'Authentic Indians: Episodes Encounter Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast' and several collaborative projects such as 'Written Remember Teachings' alongside Sliammon Elder Elsie Paul. She has been a Senior Fellow at CIFAR’s Successful Societies Program and an associate at the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University. Raibmon is also an editor for the peer-reviewed journal, BC Studies, which publishes interdisciplinary scholarly work.
University of British Columbia • Vancouver, BC, Canada
Teaching and researching Indigenous studies and colonial narratives.
Offers course-only and thesis routes. Focus areas include philosophy of science, mind, ethics, and Asian philosophy.