Carmen is a first year MA student in the UBC Department of History. She received her BA (Hons.) in History and International Relations from UBC in 2019.

Her main academic interests focus on Indigenous histories in what is now Canada, racialized identities and the question of community-building and belonging, and histories of social justice movements with an emphasis on intersectional feminism. Other interests include the relationship between public history and collective memory, and related power dynamics.

My research uses an intersectional feminist lens to understand the role of Indigenous women in defining the concepts of ‘sovereignty’, ‘nationhood’ and ‘self-determination’ in the mid-  to late- twentieth century, primarily in British Columbia, and vis-à-vis emerging national conversations on Indigenous rights.

More specifically I explore the ways in which Indigenous women navigated the divide between private/political spheres, and how they drew on their lived experiences at the intersections of race and gender to shift our shared understanding of these terms.

Paige Raibmon