The 2025 Oral History Storytelling Workshop
From May 8 to June 12, 2025, the University of Lethbridge’s TSI NIK KAPI / Centre for Oral History & Tradition ran its fifth virtual Oral History Storytelling Workshop (previously known as the Oral History Summer Institute). A slate of remarkable guest speakers shared their expertise. For information about the guest speakers, see below.
Elaine Toth (PhD candidate, University of Lethbridge) led the Oral History Storytelling Workshop
Four Indigenous student registrants were awarded the COHT annual tuition awards to attend the summer institute. The Mastercard Foundation provided matching funds to double donations from Carol Williams and Carly Adams.
Dr. Sabine Cadeau
Dr. Sabine Cadeau is a historian of Modern Latin America and the Caribbean at McGill University.
Francis First Charger
Francis First Charger is the University of Lethbridge’s Elder in Residence. He has graciously offered to attend our opening ceremonies on May 9th to offer us a blessing.
Heather George
Ms. Heather George, a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo, brings a strong research background to the role of Executive Director of the Woodland Cultural Centre.
Dr. Kara Granzow
Dr. Kara Granzow is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Iniskim / the University of Lethbridge.
Dr. Alan Martino
Dr. Alan Martino (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies program in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary.
Dr. Sarah Rose
Dr. Sarah Rose is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she founded and directs the Minor in Disability Studies and is a faculty advisor for the Texas Disability History Collection.
Jamie Ryan
Jamie Ryan is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Queen’s University, and a research assistant with the Indigenous Hockey Research Network.
Dr. Joshua Schwab-Cartas
Dr. Joshua Schwab-Cartas is a mixed race Indigenous Binnizá-Austrian, father, filmmaker, and Indigenous language scholar activist and an assistant Professor at NSCAD born outside his ancestral community on the traditional and unceded territory of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver).
Dr. Anna Sheftel
Dr. Anna Sheftel is Principal and Associate Professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University.
Dr. Cheryl Troupe
Dr. Cheryl Troupe is a citizen of the Métis Nation – Saskatchewan and a member of Gabriel Dumont Local #11 in Saskatoon.
Dr. Vanessa Watts
Dr. Vanessa Watts is Mohawk and Anishinaabe Bear Clan, Six Nations of the Grand River.
Dr. Winona Wheeler
Dr. Winona Wheeler is a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty No. 5 territory (Manitoba) though her family hails from George Gordon’s First Nation in Treaty No. 4 territory (Saskatchewan).
Dr. Lucas Wilson
Dr. Lucas Wilson is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto Mississauga.
Dr. Stacey Zembrzycki
Dr. Stacey Zembrzycki teaches in the Department of History and Classics at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec.