Scholars @ Work

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The enigmatic Coast Salish Woolly Dog

UBC PhD candidate Alison Ariss contributes to The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog (Harbour Publishing, 2025), which tells the story of the now extinct Salish wool dog with perspectives from Musqueam, Squamish, Stó lō, Suquamish, Cowichan, Katzie, Snuneymuxw, and Skokomish weavers, Knowledge Keepers, and Elders.

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The psychic dimensions of resistance and revolution

On September 10, 2025, Dr. Lara Sheehi and Dr. Jasbir Puar discuss the importance “psychic militancy” within violent systems and logics of settler colonialism and imperialism. Watch the recording of their conversation.

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Meet the Faculty of Arts PhD students decolonizing the future of digital humanities across disciplines

The Adaptive Text Encoding Initiative Network, co-led by Sydney Lines (EL&L; PHH Advisory Board), co-authors a new TEI schema for digital texts to develop antiracist, inclusive text markup practices.