The annual UBC Killam Celebration held this past month was both an opportunity to celebrate the 2013 Killam prize-winners and a chance to get to know some of them a little better.
Among the 23 outstanding University of British Columbia (UBC) faculty whose teaching excellence was recognized by a Killam Teaching Prize in 2013, is Dr. Dory Nason.
Dr. Dory Nason (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Anishinaabe and an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. She currently holds a joint appointment as assistant professor with the First Nations Studies Program and the Department of English at UBC’s Vancouver campus. At UBC, Dr. Nason teaches Indigenous Literature and Criticism; Indigenous Theory and Research Methods; and Indigenous Feminisms.
She is currently at work on her book manuscript, Red Feminist Criticism: Indigenous Women, Activism and Cultural Production. Her areas of research include contemporary Indigenous Feminisms and related Native women's intellectual history and literature.
Here we share a video created about Dr. Nason and her work as part of the annual UBC Killam Celebration.
UBC Killam Teaching Prizes are awarded by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic and presented during congregation. The prizes recognize faculty members with at least three years of teaching at UBC. Established University-wide, the prize is adjudicated within each of the twelve Faculties under procedures defined in the Faculty and approved by the Provost. Candidates may be nominated by colleagues, students, or alumni. The award recognizes distinguished teaching at any level or combination of levels: introductory, advanced, or graduate (including supervision).