Professor
Roger Spielmann

Native Studies Department

Tel.: 705-673-5661 ext.410
Fax: 705-673-4912
E-mail: rspielmann@usudbury.ca

Education

  • B.A. Warner Pacific College, Portland, Oregon
  • M.A. Anthropology, University of Texas
  • Ph.D. Anthropology, University of British Columbia

Areas of specialization

  • Discourse Analysis, Algonquian Morphology, Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, Aboriginal Issues (Canada)

Courses taught

  • NATI 1105 The Original People of North America
  • NATI 2005 Aboriginal Languages in the Contemporary Context
  • NATI 2215 Native Community-Based Research Methods
  • NATI 2305 Contemporary Native Issues
  • NATI 2616 Canadian Native Literature: Exploring Genre
  • NATI 3617 Canadian Native Literature: Novels and Plays
  • NATI 3005 Education and Native People
  • NATI 4586 Interpreting Aboriginal Histories
  • NATI 4587 The Fourth World
  • NATI 4655 Honours Essay

Current areas of research interest

  • Ethnohistory, Discourse Analysis of Ojibwe Texts, Comparative Indigenous traditions

Recent publications

  • 2007 “Sometimes I Wonder…”: Language, Racism, and the Language of Racism in Sudbury. Resource town crisis: globalization, labour and resistance in Sudbury, Canada. David Leadbeater (ed.). Fernwood Press (forthcoming).

  • 2007 Spielmann, Roger. “Comparing Stories: Embracing the Circle of Life.” Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 185-202. [with Diane Beck].

  • 2003 Articulating Aboriginal Paradigms: Implications for Aboriginal Social Work Practice. Roger Spielmann (ed.). Sudbury: Laurentian University Press.

  • 2003 “Towards a Model of Co-management of Provincial Parks in Ontario.” Natural Resources and Aboriginal People in Canada: Readings, Cases and Commentary. Robert Anderson and Robert Bone (Eds.) Captus Press, 2003 (with Marina Unger).