Sherry Pictou
Associate Professor of Law and Management; Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Governance (Tier 2)
Email: sherry.pictou@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-4092
Mailing Address:
PO Box 15000 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
- Mi’kmaw & Indigenous Land and Water-Based Governance
- Indigenous Food Systems
- Indigenous Women’s Political Life
- Rights and Activism
- Treaty Relations and Rights
- Mi’kmaw & Indigenous Land-Based Learning Practices
- Decolonization & Resurgence
- Multi-scalar Indigenous Peoples’ Movements
- Indigenous & Small-Scale Fisheries Movements
Education
- BA (Saint Mary's)
- BEd (Mount Allison)
- MA (Dalhousie)
- PhD (Dalhousie)
Bio
Dr. Sherry Pictou is a Mi’kmaw woman from L’sɨtkuk (water cuts through high rocks) known as Bear River First Nation, Nova Scotia. She worked as an Assistant Professor in the Women’s Studies Department at Mount Saint Vincent University with a focus on Indigenous Feminism (2017-2020). She is also a former Chief for her community and the former Co-Chair of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples. She is a member of the IPBES Task Force on Indigenous and Local Knowledge. Her research interests include decolonizing treaty relations, Social Justice for Indigenous Women, Indigenous women’s role in food and lifeways, and Indigenous knowledge and food systems.
Current Research
Dr. Pictou currently holds a SSHRC Partnership Grant in Partnership with KAIROS Building Indigenous-Academic-Not-for-Profit Relations for Mobilizing Research Knowledge on the Gendered Impacts of Resource Extraction in Indigenous Communities in Canada.
Pictou, S. and KAIROS (2019). Mother Earth Resource Extraction (MERE) Hub. Scalar.
