Paul Gareau

Paul Gareau - Faculty of Native Studies

Dr. Paul L. Gareau is Michif-French/Métis from the Batoche Homeland in Saskatchewan. He is an associate professor and associate dean (graduate studies) in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Gareau has published on the topics of religion and relationality, Métis experiences of religion/spirituality, Indigenous pilgrimage as peoplehood relations, and religion and identity politics. Grounded in Métis Studies and Indigenous Studies as well as Religious Studies, Gareau’s work focuses on theory and methodology of relationality (i.e., Hermeneutics of Relationality), intersections of race and gender and identity, arts-based theatre research, Indigenous onto-epistemologies, and the self-determination and sovereignty of nationhood and peoplehood relations.

E-mail: pgareau@ualberta.ca