Dr David MacDonald

David B MacDonald is a full professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Guelph, where he has been since 2007. He is of mixed Indo-Trinidadian and Scottish origins and was raised on Treaty 4 lands in Regina, Saskatchewan. He served  a three-year term as Research Leadership Chair from 2017-2020, and he has previous been a faculty member at Otago University, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the ESCP Graduate School of Management, Paris, France. With co-researcher Sheryl Lightfoot, he shares a five year SSHRCC Insight Grant on Indigenous practices of self-determination in comparative perspective, with a focus on Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand (https://complexsovereignties.ca/).

His recent books are The Sleeping Giant Awakens: Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation (University of Toronto Press, 2019) and Populism and World Politics: Exploring Inter- and Transnational Dimensions, co-edited with F.A. Stengel and D. Nabers (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019). He researches and publishes primarily on comparative Indigenous-settler relations in Canada and other CANZUS states, focusing on such themes as Indigenous sovereignty, settler colonial genocide, transitional justice and truth commissions, and UNDRIP implementation. He also writes on multiculturalism and ethnic diversity in CANZUS states. He is a fellow at the Aotearoa New Zealand Centre for Indigenous Peoples and the Law.