Trina Zeimbekis 

PhD Candidate
Inuit culture and history, Ethnohistory, 20th Century Canada

Email: 5tz1@queensu.ca
Phone: 613.533.2150

Education:

M.A., Memorial University, 2005
B.A., Memorial University, 2002

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About

Trina Zeimbekis studies early policing in Arctic Canada, particularly in present day Nunavik, northern Québec, where she investigates the conflict and negotiation of cross-cultural issues relating to a public health debate over a massive dog culling beginning in the 1950s. Her thesis highlights the Inuit response to the shift from a temporary to permanent police presence in the north. It identifies a connection between the Inuit, Canada, and the place of dogs within it.

Courses Taught

HIST 467, First Nations of North America

Conferences

American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting (ASE), 12-16 November 2008, Eugene, Oregon. Conference paper entitled, 'A Place for Arctic Space.'

Conference attendee, ASE Annual Meeting, 7-11 November 2007, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, 1-5 November 2006, Williamsburg, Virginia. Conference paper entitled, 'Civilized Savages: An Indigenous Perspective of the Civilizing Process in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ontario.'

Publications

Co-authored book chapter entitled, 'Peter Jones: Civilize or be Civilized.' In Civilizing the Wilderness: Culture and Nature in Pre-Confederation Canada and Rupert's Land, by Andy den Otter.  Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2012.

Review of Inuit Shamanism and Christianity: Transitions and Transformations in the Twentieth Century, by Frédéric B. Laugrand and Jarich G. Oosten. The Northern Review34 (Fall 2011): 117-20.

Awards

Winner of the History Department's Teaching Fellow Award, 2011.