Dr. Anna Corrigal-Flaminio
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Dr. Anna Corrigal-Flaminio is an Associate Professor in Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University. Professor Corrigal Flaminio is a community-engaged, (PDF file) Metis scholar and lawyer that has worked with Indigenous peoples in the areas of law, social justice, and social work for over 25 years. Anna holds a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Regina, a Bachelor of Laws/Juris Doctor from the University of British Columbia, a Masters of Laws from the University of Saskatchewan, and received her Doctorate of Juridical Science at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto (2018). Dr. Corrigal Flaminio is called to the bar in Ontario and Saskatchewan and is a member of the Law Societies of Ontario and Saskatchewan. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Faculté St. Jean at the University of Alberta (2018-2019) where she worked on an interdisciplinary CIHR community-engaged research project on Metis women’s wellness in Saskatchewan.
Dr. Flaminio’s research focuses the application of the Supreme Court R v Gladue decision and its application through an Indigenous law lens, with particular focus on Cree, Anishinaabe, and Metis laws. Anna examines Indigenous-led community-based solutions within urban settings, with a specialized focus on urban Indigenous youth.
Her research interests include: Indigenous laws, criminal law, sentencing, Gladue principles, Indigenous health and healing, family law, community diversion, youth justice, water justice and Metis research methodologies. Anna currently holds the role of Knowledge User on a CIHR funded Indigenous health research project on the importance of Metis women’s wellness and family, community, and land wellness.
Education
| Univeristy | Degree |
|---|---|
| University of Toronto | SJD |
| University of Saskatchewan | LLM |
| University of British Columbia | LLB/JD |
| University of Regina | BSW |
Courses
| Course Code | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CRM 601 | Violence in Society |
| CRM 400 | Indigenous Governance/Justice |
| POG 440 | Indigenous Governance/Justice |
| CR8 103 | Graduate Special Topics Seminar: Courts, Justice and Indigenous People |
| CRM 202 | Victims and the Criminal Process |
| CRM 406 | Seminar - Indigenous Laws & Dispute Resolution Methods |
| PPA 703 | Indigenous Dispute Resolution |
Selected Publications
- Corrigal Flaminio, Anna. Indigenous Kin-Visiting: An Urban Indigenous Justice Approach in the Criminal Legal System (sole author, forthcoming book, 2026). University of Manitoba Press.
- Corrigal Flaminio Visiting with my Aunties: Metis Ways of Gathering and Supporting Each Other, In Gaudet, J.C. ed., Auntie Medicine: Giving voice and giving meaning to our Indigenous women’s kinship systems. UBC Press. [accepted and forthcoming 2025]
- Corrigal Flaminio, A., & Dorion, L. M. (2024). Wîpinâhwasowin: Metis Methodologies and Spirituals Protocols for Honouring Metis Ancestors. Pawaatamihk: Journal of Métis Thinkers, 1(2), 210–230. (external link)
- 2023 – Book Review - Returning to Ceremony: Spirituality in Manitoba Métis Communities (University of Manitoba Press, 2021). Published in Indigenous Religious Traditions, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2023, December 21, 2023. (external link)
- (PDF file) Flaminio, A., Dorion, L. (2022) Wipinahwasowin: English-Metis & the HBC - Following the Tracks, Trails, and Resting Spots of our Ancestors. Metis Community Newsletter (Co-written with Leah Dorion, Designed and Produced by Campbell Printing).
- Flaminio, A. C., Gaudet, J. C., & Dorion, L. M. (2020). Métis women gathering: visiting together and voicing wellness for ourselves. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 16(1), 55–63. (external link)
- Gaudet, J. C., Dorion, L. M., & Flaminio, A. C. (2020). Exploring the effectiveness of Métis women’s research methodology and methods: Promising wellness research practices. First Peoples Child & Family Review, 15(1), 12-26. (external link)
- Flaminio, A. C. (2019). Kinship-visiting: Urban Indigenous deliberative space. In K. Drake, & B.L. Gunn (Eds), Renewing Relationships: Indigenous peoples and Canada (pp. 143–167). Wiyasiwewin Mikiwahp Native Law Centre, University of Saskatchewan.
- Flaminio, Anna Louisa. (2018). Kiyokewin: Urban Indigenous Kinship-Visiting Methodology Approach for Urban Indigenous Youth. Faculty of Law, University of Toronto [unpublished SJD Dissertation].
- Flaminio, Anna Louisa. (2013). Gladue through Wahkotowin: Social History through Cree Kinship Lens in Corrections and Parole. LLM Thesis, University of Saskatchewan [unpublished].
- (PDF file) Flaminio, Anna. (2008). Since Time Immemorial. (2008) In C. Avery & D. Fichter, (Eds.), Ka-Ki-Pe-Isi-Nakatamakawiyahk/ Our Legacy: Essays (Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan). (external link)
