Wahpasiw, Omeasoo

Dr. Wahpasiw is an Assistant Professor at Carleton University, at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism. However, she has also been an  Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Prince Edward Island, where she led a suite of courses on Indigenous culture and values, and the emerging legacy of the residential schools. Dr. Wahpasiw is furthermore cross-appointed with Carleton’s School of Indigenous & Canadian Studies and the Department of History.

Her PhD dissertation titled Tla’amin Housing, Architecture and Home Territories in the 20th Century: Invisible spaces Shaping Historical Indigenous Education explores the ways in which Indigenous people have maintained their cultural and spatial heritage even while forced to inhabit architecture that follows colonial paradigms.

She co-wrote the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Women’s Commission submission to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People.