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Spy Dénommé-Welch (Algonquin-Anishnaabe) is an interdisciplinary scholar, educator, and artist whose scholarship examines multimodal approaches to land-based research creation, qualitative research methodologies, curriculum assessment, art, and dramaturgy. Dénommé-Welch has completed a two-year SSHRC-IDG funded research project that investigated gender representation and expression in historical music cultural production. Currently, Dénommé-Welch leads the research exploratory creation/sound lab, working on projects like Sonic Coordinates: Decolonizing Land-based music composition, funded by the New Frontiers Research Fund program. This research includes the repatriation of music, sound, and knowledge through a series of miniatures, aiming to investigate epistemologies of music composition, sonic expression, and visual text. As an artist/artist-researcher and composer, Dénommé-Welch actively creates in music, opera, and theatre, with projects slated for premiere in upcoming seasons. Areas of research include interdisciplinary scholarship, qualitative methodologies, Indigenous studies, community-based research, and arts-based methods.
Western University • London, Ontario, Canada
Teaching and conducting research in education, focusing on Indigenous methodologies and the arts.
Streams include Archaeology and Bioarchaeology, and Sociocultural Anthropology.