Dr. Catherine Nolin is the recipient of the Ehor Boyanowsky Academic of the Year Award | University of Northern British Columbia Faculty Association

Dr. Catherine Nolin

Dr. Catherine Nolin is the recipient of the Ehor Boyanowsky Academic of the Year Award
May 1, 2023

Dr. Catherine Nolin is the recipient of the Ehor Boyanowsky Academic of the Year Award. Dr. Nolin is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia. As a social geographer, Dr. Nolin’s research explores the gendered, political, and social aspects of state-sponsored violence, forced migration, and life in exile. Her work has explored these interests in the Guatemala-Canada transnational context and more broadly in examinations of the connections/disconnections between the Global North and South. Dr. Nolin’s co-authored book “Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala” with her long-time research partner Grahame Russell of Rights
Action draws on over thirty years of community-based research and Rights Action’s direct community support work in Guatemala to expose the ruthless state machinery that benefits the Canadian mining industry.

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Dr. Catherine Nolin is the recipient of the Ehor Boyanowsky Academic of the Year AwardMay 1, 2023