Faculty & Staff

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Full- time SJCS Faculty

Benita Bunjun
Associate Professor
902-496-8161
benita.bunjun@smu.ca

For details on Dr. Bunjun's work, please see:
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Val Marie Johnson
Associate Professor & Co-Chair
McNally South 203
902-420-5879
vjohnson@smu.ca

For details on Dr. Johnson's work, please see:
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Rachel Zellars 
Associate Professor & Co-Chair
Senior Research Fellow
McNally South 207

For details on Dr. Zellars's work, please see:
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Part-Time Faculty

Community Educators Collaborating with SJCS

Michelle Paul:
michelle.paul@smu.ca
Michelle Paul (Dalhousie University, Sociology/Anthropology; University of King's College, journalism) is a mother, treaty rightsholder, water protector, land defender, advocate, and activist. Her rights-based advocacy work is within Indigenous communities in solidarity with allies, and mainly around resistance to colonial interests’ infringements on Mi’kmaw sovereignty in their unceded territory. This importantly includes environmental concerns and resisting industry exploitation of Mi’kmaq lands without Mi’kmaq consent, such as in the Alton Gas Resistance.

SJCS Staff

Zhanar Kaiyrova

Administrative Assistant
McNally South 218
902-491-3374
sjcs@smu.ca