The Department is hosting two new Post-Doctoral Fellows in Native-Newcomer History in 2004-05.

In September Lissa Wadewitz joined us after completing her Ph.D. in History at UCLA on ‘The Nature of Borders: Salmon and Boundaries in the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin.’ Lissa’s post-doctoral research project is to expand the Canadian portion of her doctoral research on trans-border salmon fishery issues on the Pacific slope of Washington state and British Columbia. She will submit the expanded and revised work to a university press, and will also make conference presentations and submit articles to scholarly journals during the year. She introduced herself to the local research community on 30 September, when she gave a talk to the Native-Newcomer Discussion Group.

In early October Lissa was joined by Angela Wanhalla, who had even more recently (29 September, to be precise) defended her doctoral dissertation with flying colours at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Angela plans to carry out intensive research on a Saskatchewan reserve, and to compare the reserve’s experience with intermarriage and the transgressing of boundaries with parallel experiences on Taieri Native Reserve (the subject of her doctoral dissertation) in New Zealand. In the short term, Angela plans to prepare two journal articles and make conference presentations from this comparative work.

We welcome Lissa and Angela, and wish them enjoyment, academic success, and a warm winter in Saskatoon.