Faculty: Human and Social Development, School of Social Work

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Dr. Jeannine Carrière is Métis and was raised in St. Adolphe Manitoba.  She has been teaching social work since 1994 in Alberta and at the University of Victoria since 2005 where she teaches in the School of Social Work. Her role in the school has included being Chair of the Indigenous Specializations and to oversee the Indigenous Student Support Center for the faculty of Human and Social Development. Her research interests include Metis children’s identity and needs for cultural safety in adoptions and child welfare services. Dr. Carrière has been a practitioner in Indigenous child and family services for over thirty years and has conducted several research projects related to her research interests. Jeannine has a number of publications including a co-edited book, Calling Our Families Home: Metis Peoples’ Experiences with Child Welfare (2017) which is the first book on Metis child welfare in Canada. She has also published on Indigenous knowledge building, health equity and the rights of sex workers and their families. Dr. Carriere has received a number of awards including the University of Victoria Provost’s Advocacy and Activism Award for her work with Métis and First Nation People.

Faculty: Human and Social Development, Teaching Professor (tenured)

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I (Maureen) am a daughter, mother, sister, cousin who shares a history with the Mi’kMaq peoples on the Miramichi River in New Brunswick and Irish settlers who sought refuge on the land.  I am a tenured Teaching Professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Development (School of Nursing).  My work is informed by the philosophies of Mi’kMaq elders and critical theorists who seek to question and interrupt pedagogy that oppresses teaching and learning. I have extensive experience with the teaching peer review process and am familiar with a wide range of approaches to teaching and learning.

A fun fact about me…I like to play music (guitar, mandolin, ukulele, bodhran). My dogs are my biggest fans 😊.

Faculty: Social Science, Department of Political Science

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Dr. Verdun is Professor of Political Science and the founding Director of UVic’s European Studies Program (1997-2005), served as Graduate Advisor (2007-2009) and Chair of the Department (2010-2013). In July 2017 she was awarded the first Distinguished Lansdowne Fellow of UVIC’s Faculty of Social Sciences. She was a UVic Senator and member of the Faculty Association Salary and Benefits Negotiation Team in 2004-2005. Dr. Verdun holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute Florence Italy (1995). She has been a faculty member at UVic since 1997.

Faculty: Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer Science

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Dr George Tzanetakis is a Professor of Computer Science (also cross-listed in Music and Electrical and Computer Engineering) at the University of Victoria. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Princeton University in May 2002 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University working on query-by-humming systems with Prof. Dannenberg and on video retrieval with the Informedia group. His interdisciplinary research deals with all stages of audio content analysis such as feature extraction, segmentation, classification with specific focus on Music Information Retrieval (MIR). His pioneering work on musical genre classification is frequently cited and received an IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Award in 2004. He was Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in the Computer Analysis of Audio and Music from 2010-2020 and received the Craigdarroch research award in artistic expression at the University of Victoria in 2012. He has presented tutorials on MIR and audio feature extraction at several international conferences. He is also an active musician and has studied saxophone performance, music theory and composition. More information can be found at: https://www.cs.uvic.ca/~gtzan