Profiles | Isaac White

Graduate Researcher | Master’s Student

Isaac White is a (white) settler guest and scholar on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territory at Queen’s University. He achieved an Honours B.A. in Communication Studies with a minor in Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. His research is both holistic and interdisciplinary and focusses broadly on Indigenous social and cultural justice in the context of Indigenous-settler relations in Canada. Isaac’s current MA thesis research focusses on exploring if and how Geography Departments at Canadian universities are addressing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action. In particular, he is interested in settler colonial theory, power-knowledge, and how discourse both shapes and influences particular modes of thinking, being, and doing. His research interests include settler colonialism and settler colonial theory, Indigenous-settler relations, Indigenous-settler reconciliation, Foucauldian discourse, and critical discourse analysis as a methodology.