{"id":81594,"date":"2022-11-01T13:13:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T17:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=81594"},"modified":"2022-11-01T14:20:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:20:25","slug":"bourgeois-reappointed-vice-provost-indigenous-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/11\/bourgeois-reappointed-vice-provost-indigenous-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Bourgeois reappointed Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Robyn Bourgeois, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, has been appointed Brock\u2019s Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The appointment took effect Tuesday, Nov. 1 and is for a term of up to five years.\u00a0 <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Bourgeois has served in the role in an acting capacity since October 2020. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Bourgeois teaches in the Centre for Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, and her research focuses on Indigenous feminisms, violence against Indigenous women and girls, and Indigenous women\u2019s political activism and leadership.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:264,&quot;335559740&quot;:356}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">A mixed race Cree woman who is originally from the Syilx and Splats\u2019in territories of British Columbia, Bourgeois has been a strong champion for decolonizing all aspects of campus life, through <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/04\/brock-university-seeking-indigenous-scholars-to-join-teaching-faculty-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">targeted hiring<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> practices, increased <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/06\/indigenous-research-grant-projects-to-explore-critical-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">research opportunities<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/10\/indigenous-content-creators-to-participate-in-decolonial-reading-circle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">engagement opportunities<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> for all community members.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559740&quot;:356}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robyn Bourgeois, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, has been appointed Brock\u2019s Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7484,7,3319,6833,1,4,38],"tags":[522,4226,6056,7831],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81609,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81594\/revisions\/81609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}