Dr. Spy Dénommé Welch

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Biography

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.

Research Interests

Experience

Associate Professor

2015-01-01 — Present

Western University • London, Ontario, Canada

Teaching and conducting research in education, focusing on Indigenous methodologies and the arts.

Courses

EDUC 9711B-650 Qualitative Research Education

Requirements for Western University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.3
IELTS
Listening
Required:6
Reading
Required:6
Writing
Required:6
Speaking
Required:6
Overall
Required:6
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:20
Speaking
Required:20
Total
Required:86
Prerequisites
Four-year degree, honours or the equivalent, in anthropology or equivalent background in social sciences.
Application Checklist
  • Online application
  • Two academic references
  • Sample of written work (15-20 pages)
  • Statement of academic intent
  • Transcripts
  • CV (optional)
Specialization Notes

Streams include Archaeology and Bioarchaeology, and Sociocultural Anthropology.