Limited Term Appointment: Department of Indigenous Studies, Law & Social Justice

Faculty/Academic Area: Faculty of Liberal Arts

Department
:
Indigenous Studies

Campus: Brantford

Employee Group: WLUFA

Requisition : 10715

Faculty and Department/Area
:
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Indigenous Studies, Law and Social Justice

Position Location
:
Brantford

Rank/s of the Position
:
Lecturer or Assistant Professor

Type of Position
: 2-year Limited Term Appointment

Anticipated Salary Range
: $90,000 to $110,000. Actual salary to be commensurate with education and experience.

Area of Specializations
:
Candidates must have the ability to teach in the following areas:

• Indigenous methodologies

• Indigenous-Settler Relations and Allyship

• Indigenous community organizing

The Department of Indigenous Studies, Law, and Social Justice at Wilfrid Laurier University invites applications for a First Nations, Métis, or Inuit (FNMI) Indigenous Scholar for a 24-month Limited Term Appointment at the rank of Lecturer or Assistant Professor commencing July 1st, 2026, subject to budgetary approval.

Laurier’s campuses and locations are on the Haldimand Tract, within the traditional territories of the Neutral, Anishnaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples. A short 2.5‑hour drive of 18 First Nations communities, including the Six Nations of the Grand River— the most populous First Nation in Canada — and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Kitchener‑Waterloo and Brantford both have large urban Indigenous populations.

There are 12 Métis councils within a 3‑hour radius. We recognize the unique heritages of Indigenous peoples and support their right to preserve and express their distinctive Indigenous cultures, histories, and knowledge through academic programming, research, and co‑curricular activities. Aligned with Laurier’s Indigenous Strategic Plan:
Principles for Indigenization, Reconciliation, the university honours Indigenous knowledge through diverse ongoing initiatives, programs, funding events, and positions, including the university’s Indigenous Student Centres, the Indigenous Knowledge Fund, Indigenous Education Week and the annual Indigenous Research Symposium. Laurier regularly welcomes Visiting Elders and has an Indigenous Curriculum Specialist, as well as a growing number of Indigenous faculty, students, and staff.

The Department of Indigenous Studies, Law, and Social Justice is seeking an Indigenous scholar whose teaching and research engage Indigenous methodologies to focus on critical analyses of settler colonialism, community organizing and social change, and Indigenous‑settler relations, including relations and practices of allyship between non‑Indigenous and Indigenous communities that are rooted in accountability to Indigenous communities.

The successful candidate will teach five (5) courses in the Indigenous Studies program per academic year primarily in‑person on Laurier’s Brantford campus, with some teaching required in a virtual synchronous or virtual asynchronous format. The successful candidate will also contribute to program development in Indigenous Studies and academic service to the Department of Indigenous Studies, Law, and Social Justice.

In the first year, the successful candidate will teach the following four (4) courses on the Brantford campus:
Indigenous-Settler Relations (ID360), Indigenous Community Organizing (ID375), Indigenous Methodologies (ID400), Indigenous Allyship and Kinship (/YC401). The maximum number of students in these courses range from 25‑50 students. For the fifth course, the candidate will be given the option to teach either the virtual synchronous course Indigenous Peoples and Media (ID100) or the virtual asynchronous course Indigenous Forms of Justice (/LY/CC309).

For the second year of the appointment, the teaching assignment will be determined in consultation with the successful candidate, and is expected to include Introduction to Indigenous Studies (/SOJE
120). Opportunities to teach on Laurier’s Waterloo campus may be available if the candidate is interested.

The salary range for this position would be $90,000 to $110,000 subject to budgetary approval. This is a unionized position, part of the WLUFA full‑time bargaining unit.

This position is…