Lianne C Leddy “Cold War Uranium Mining: New Technologies and Reconciliation in Historical Perspective”

Wilson Institute Visiting Speaker Series presents Lianne C. Leddy, Associate Professor, History, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Lianne C. Leddy is an associate professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University and a member of Serpent River First Nation. Leddy’s work examines the gendered experiences of colonialism, the reclamation of Indigenous parenting, Indigenous historical methods, and performance art as an expression of Indigenous feminist thought. She is the author of Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium at Elliot Lake (University of Toronto Press 2022) and her work has appeared in Oral History Forum, Canadian Historical Review, Herizons and several edited collections.