Ronald Niezen

Ronald Niezen is the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy in the faculties of Law and of Arts, and is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Anthropology. He also holds the Canada Research Chair in the Comparative Study of Indigenous Rights and Identity. He was selected as the William Lyon Mackenzie King Chair for Canadian Studies, Harvard University, for 2018-2019.rnrnProfessor Niezen researches and teaches in the areas of political and legal anthropology, indigenous peoples and human rights. He is an anthropologist with wide ranging research experience: with the Songhay of Mali, the Cree communities of Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba, and the Sami of northern Europe.