Education

Hanna M. Paul (SHE/HER)

UBCO GRADUATE RESEARCHER (2021-2023)

Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies (Community Engagement, Social Change, and Equity)

University of British Columbia | Okanagan Campus | Sylix Okanagan Nation Territory

2023 UBCO Graduate Researcher of the Year Award

Email: hannap18@student.ubc.ca

Affiliations at UBCO: Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies.

Research interests are: Indigenous rights, storytelling, storying, Michif Visiting, Indigenous methodologies, Michif methodologies, Michif ancestral knowledge, oral histories, Michif Moon Time teachings, body holism, decolonization, Indigenous feminist theory, ecofeminism, Indigenous revitalization, and healing.

Hanna Paul (she/her/hers) graduated from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan (UBCO) on unceded Syilx territory with a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Anthropology and minoring in Indigenous Studies. Hanna is originally from northern Alberta and is a Michif scholar working to create and take up space for Indigenous ways of knowing through academia. She is focused in Michif methodologies and ethnography; specifically, she is looking to merge the two methods in a positive and holistic way. Hanna is a recipient of the 2020 Undergraduate Research Award and will bring this research project and concept into her graduate studies. Her research project is rooted in Indigenous body holism and dynamic balance through Michif Moon Time teachings. She created this graduate project upon the reflection of western teachings she had received about menstruation (Moon Time) during her upbringing and Michif knowledge of Moon Time. Hanna noted that there is often a taboo associated with this vital bodily process and she wondered where this had rooted from. In marrying Anthropology and Indigenous Studies, Hanna’s goal is to work with and for Indigenous communities and decolonize the way that menstruation (Moon Time) is understood and help decolonize Indigenous women’s body images. This work has resulted in an open access co-authored publication with her supervisor, Dr. Fiona P. McDonald on methods in Anthropologica. Hanna was also a 2021 Editorial Assistant with the Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER) Press.

Hanna was awarded a 2021 SSHRC Canadian Graduate Master’s Award for her research that advances her work as a Michif scholar under the supervision of Métis Scholar Dr. Gabrille Legault and anthropologist Dr. Fiona P. McDonald.

University of British Columbia, Okanagan Bachelor of Arts Degree. 2021