Dr. Keith Carlson
Canada Research Chair in Indigenous and Community-Engaged History Chair, Peace and Reconciliation Centre
The University of the Fraser Valley
Dr. Carlson is a Professor of History at the University of the Fraser Valley where he holds a Tier One Canada Research Chair in Indigenous and Community-Engaged History.
He considers himself first and foremost an ethnohistorian. His scholarship is designed and conducted in partnership with communities and aspires to answer questions that are of relevance to those communities. He is interested in Indigenous history, Indigenous historical consciousness, and the history of settler colonialism — especially in western Canada and north western USA.
His approach is to invert the classic scholarly gaze and to forefront the perspective of his Indigenous partners. So what intrigues him most is not the history of Indigenous people in Canadian or American history, but the history of Canadian and American society within Indigenous histories. He focuses on the history of the Coast Salish of British Columbia and Washington. He also have worked extensively with Hukbalahap veterans in the Philippines.