About
I’m part of an ongoing collaboration with Bigstone Cree Nation on sakâwiyiniwak (Northern Bush Cree) experiences with traditional food contamination (oil sands and forestry use of pesticides) in what is now known as northern Alberta. This work involves community-based environmental monitoring to protect food sovereignty of plants, water and wildlife (moose) in Bigstone Cree Nation territory. I’m also part of a team that collaborates with Stoney Nakoda Nations on restorying bull trout in the eastern slopes of the Rockies and supporting women to measure selenium and nickel in traditional foods.
Awards
- Distinguished Academic Early Career Award, Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations, 2024
- ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences category, Canadian Association for Graduate Studies, 2019
Relevant Publications
- Baker, J. (2022). Boreal Plants that Enchant: Lively Ethnography of Sakâwiyiniwak (Northern Bush Cree) Multispecies Kinship Obligations. Environmental Humanities, Special Issue on Enchantment 14 (2), 385–400. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9712467
- Baker, J. (2020). Do Berries Listen? Berries as Indicators, Ancestors, and Agents in Canada's Oil Sands Region. Special Issue: Phytocommunicability and Plant-Human Sociality, Becky Schulties, editor. Ethnos 28(2):273-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2020.1765829
- Baker, J. & Westman, C. (2018). Extracting Knowledge: Social Science, Environmental Impact Assessment, and Indigenous Consultation in the Oil Sands of Alberta, Canada. In The Extractive Industries and Society, (5):144-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2017.12.008