Positions
Education
Current University Committees & Engagement
- Senate Speaker
- NU Senate, Member
- Board of Governors
- By-Laws Committee
- Co-Chair
- Senate Governance Review Committee
Teaching Areas
Undergraduate Programs
- History
Graduate Studies
- Education, MEd/PHD Program
- Master of Education
- Environmental Science/Studies, MESc/MES
- History, MA
- PhD in Education (Educational Sustainability)
Graduate Supervision
Accepting Students for Supervision
School year
- 2027/28
2028/29
Supervised Theses / Projects
Selected Supervisions
- Nelaya Boyd, “Memories of Afghanistan,” MRP, Nipissing University, in progress.
- Jacquie Girard, “Hidden Mothers: The Experiences of unwed Mothers in the Hôpital do la Miséricorde, PQ, 1940-1970,” Nipissing University, complete.
- Rebekah Trudel (Co-supervision with Dr. Carly Dokis), “Stories of Weaving: Understanding the History of the Métis Sash through Experience, Memory, and Weaving,” M.A., Nipissing University, completed.
- Natasha Stephenson, “Courage and Caring: A Queer History of North Bay,” M.A. Nipissing University, completed.
- Bob Olajos (Co-supervision with Dr. Jamie Murton), “Temagami Day School History,” M.A. Nipissing University, completed.
- Keithen Sutherland (Co-supervision with Dr. Kirsten Greer), “Ininiw Trap Lines: reading the history of the land through MNR documents and stories of Mushkegowuk people.” MES/MESc, Nipissing University, complete.
- An Nguyen, “Family Memories of Displacement after the Vietnam War.” M.A. Nipissing University, complete.
Research
Research Interests
- Nishnaabeg histories
- Indigenous histories
- decolonized histories
- oral history
- women's and gender history
Current Research Projects / Labs
- Gaa Bi Kidwaad Maa Nbiising: the Stories of the Original People of Lake Nipissing, https://uofmpress.ca/books/gaa-bi-kidwaad-maa-nbiising-nishnaabeg
- “Nbiising Nishnaabewin: kinoomaagewin inaadziwin (Teaching and Learning in the Nbiising Way).”
Collaborations / Affiliations
- Kitchen Table Collective, https://www.kitchentablecollective.ca/
- Lake Nipissing Beading Project Collective, lakenipissingbeadingproject.com
- Great Lakes Research Alliance, https://grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca/
Grants & Funding
Selected Research Funding
- 2025-present, Niigaan Gdzihaami Fund, “Nbiising Nishnaabewin: kinoomaagewin inaadziwin (Teaching and Learning in the Nbiising Way),” Principal Applicant with Nicole Latulippe (UTSC) and Nipissing First Nation, Kinoomaadziwin Education Body, Anishnaabek Education System, (48,000 CAD).
- 2024-2025, SSHRC, Connections Grant, “Gifting and Caring for Nadwendaagnag (all our relations): stewarding the Lake Nipissing Beading Project for seven generations and beyond,” Principal Applicant-Lake Nipissing Beading Project Collective, (44, 075 CAD)
- 2021 Truth and Reconciliation Project Fund, Canadian Historical Association (1000 CAD)
- 2021-2023 SSHRC Insight Development Grant, “Our Guides Were Really Going Places”: Nbisiing Guides and the Carnegie Museum’s Northern Expeditions, Co-applicant, (75,000 CAD)
- 2021-2023 Heritage Canada, Museums Assistance Program, Co-Applicant (57, 973 CAD)
- 2021-2023 SSHRC CFI Grant, Co-Applicant (200, 415 CAD)
- 2021-2023 SSHRC CFI Grant, Co-Applicant (120, 864 CAD)
- 2021-2022 SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG), Co-applicant, The Lake Nipissing Beading Project: Toward Critical Geomatics through Community Indigenous Art-Creation, Co-applicant, ($5000)
- 2019-2022 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, Collaborator (116, 360 CAD)
- 2018-2020 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, Collaborator (200,000 CAD)
- 2017-2022 SSHRC Insight Grant, Applicant (157,420 CAD)
Open to Media Inquiries
Publications
Books
Srigley, Katrina and Glenna Beaucage with the Elders and Knowledge Holders of Nbiising Nishnaabeg. Gaa-Be Kidwaad Maa Nbiising Nishnaabeg/The Stories of the Original People of Lake Nipissing, University of Manitoba Press, 2026.
Srigley, Katrina (2010). Breadwinning Daughters: single working women in a Depression-era city, 1929-1939. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.Edited Collections
Srigley, Katrina (co-editor), Stacey Zembryzycki and Franca Iacovetta, Beyond Women’s Words: feminisms and the practices of oral history in the twenty-first century, London: Routledge, 2018.
Srigley, Katrina and Stacey Zembrzycki, "Special Issue: Decolonizing and Decentering in Feminist Oral History", Oral History Review, Special Issue, 45, 1, 2018.
Srigley, Katrina and Stacey Zembrzycki (2009). “Special Issue: Remembering Family, Analyzing Home: Oral History and the Family,” Oral History Forum, 29.Articles
Srigley, Katrina and Autumn Varley, “Learning to Unlearn: Building Relationships on Anishinaabeg Territory,” in Contexts for Indigenous Research, eds. Deborah McGregor and Rochelle Johnston (Toronto: CSPI, 2018).
Srigley, Katrina and Lorraine Sutherland, “Decolonizing, Indigenizing and Biiskaaybiiyang in the Field: Our Oral History Journey, Oral History Review, Vol 44, 1(2018).
Long, John, Richard Preston, Katrina Srigley and Lorraine Sutherland, “Sharing the Land at Moose Factory in 1763,” Ontario History, Vol. CIX, 1(Autumn 2017): 72-96.
Srigley, Katrina. “From Muzzu-Kummik-Quae to Jeanette Corbiere Laval and Back Again: Indigenous and Feminist Approaches to the First-Year Course in Canadian History.” In Feminist Pedagogy In Higher Education: Critical Theory and Practice. Eds. Tracey Penny Light, Jane Nicholas, and Renee Bondy. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2015.
Henri Pallard, Carol Kauppi, Kathy King, and Katrina Srigley, “Homelessness in North Bay, Ontario, Canada,” OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development Volume 8 (2015): 37-50.
Srigley, Katrina and Jennifer Evans. “Women of the North, who Ministered in the North: space and identity in the silences and recollections of the Sisters of St. Joseph.” Histoire Sociale/Social History, XLVII/93 (May 2014): 37-62.
Srigley, Katrina (2012) (invited publication). “‘I Am a Proud Anishinaabe Kwe’: issues of identity and status in northern Ontario after Bill C-31.” Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women’s History in Canada, eds. Valerie Korinek and Robin Jarvis Brownlee. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2012, 241-266.
Srigley, Katrina (2009). “Stories of Strife?: Remembering the Great Depression,” Special Issue: Remembering Family, Analyzing Home: Oral History and the Family, Oral History Forum, 29, pp. 20-40.
Srigley, Katrina (2007). “Clothing Stories: Consumption, Identity, and Desire in Depression-era Toronto.” Journal of Women’s History 19, 1: pp. 82-104.
Srigley, Katrina (2005). “In Case You Hadn’t Noticed!”: Race, Ethnicity and Women’s Wage-earning in a Depression-Era City.” Labour/Le Travail 55, Spring : pp. 69-105.
Articles
Srigley, K.“When relationships and stories guide our practice: subjectivities, intersubjectivities, and intersectionality in oral history.” In Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History. Eds. Alexander Freund et. al. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury, 2026.
Srigley, K and Elder John Sawyer.“Visiting as Relational Methodology:Listening, Learning, and Sharing Nishnaabeg Histories in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” Oral History is Not Just Data: Amplifying Humanistic Practices in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Oral History Review 53, 1(2026): 27-34. Lake Nipissing Beading Project Collective. “Beading relations: Reimagining, remapping, and remembering through the Lake Nipissing Beading Project.” Special issue: Creating Memories in Community, Geographical Review (August 2024): 1-23;
Other Publications
Nipissing Warriors Documentary (English and Nishnaabemwin), nipissingu.ca/warriors; Lake Nipissing Beading Project, lakenipissingbeadingproject