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Hayden King

Dr. Hayden King

Associate Professor & Advisor to the Dean of Arts on Indigenous Education
EducationMA (Queen’s University), PhD (McMaster University)
OfficeJOR-122
Phone416-979-5000 x543483

Dr. Hayden King is Anishinaabe from Beausoleil First Nation on Gchi'mnissing, in Huronia Ontario.

Areas of Expertise:

Indigenous policy, law, governance & education; settler colonialism

Research:

Dr. Hayden King has a number of ongoing research projects. He is a co-lead on a SSHRC Partnership Grant considering the extent of Indigenous control of lands and resources in modern treaty contexts. Related to this work is leadership on an interactive Treaty Map website designed to offer Indigenous perspectives on every treaty in Canada dating back to 1763. In collaboration with Inuit colleagues, he is studying the Northern hunting economy; and finally, working with colleagues at Six Nations and the Brantford Region Indigenous Support Centre, a report on criminal justice reform.

Courses:

  • FNTI (external link)  / PPA 124: Introduction to the Politics and Governance of Indigenous People
  • PD 8300: Is Reconciliation Dead? Contemporary Indigenous Policy in Canada

Graduate Program Membership:

  • Policy Studies

Community & Professional Service:

Recent Publications:

King, H. 2024. “Sovereignty.” In The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory, edited by M. Kreiswirth et al. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.

King, H. & D. Thomas. 2024. "A Pedagogy of Erasure: International Relations and Indigenous Peoples.” In The Oxford Handbook of International Studies Pedagogy (external link, opens in new window)  (pp. 51-66), edited by H.A. Smith, M.A. Boyer & D.J. Hornsby. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Alexander, M., D. Edwards, L. Pinnock, R. Reece & H. King. 2023. Walls to Bridges: Evolving Our Work Within Carceral Spaces by Rupturing Racism and Oppression Through a Participatory Process. (external link, opens in new window)  Journal of Prisoners on Prisons 32(1): 27-45.

King, H. 2022. “Conceptualizing Indigenous Freedom.” In Reading Sociology: Decolonizing Canada, 4th ed. (external link, opens in new window) , edited by J. Jean-Pierre, V. Watts, C.E. James, P. Albanese, X. Chen & M. Graydon. Toronto: Oxford University Press.

Inutiq, K. & H. King. 2022. Considering Inuit Self-Government in Nunavut. Iqaluit: Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.

King, H. 2021. "Rising Like a Cloud: New Histories of Old Toronto" in Indigenous Toronto: Stories that Carry This Place (external link)  (pp. 9-16), edited by D. Bolduc, M. Gordon-Corbiere, R. Tabobondung and B. Wright-McLeod. Toronto: Coachhouse Books.

Zoe, J.B., H. King and J. Simpson. 2020. Gowhaedo Ginaewo (Ancestral ways): Mapping Modern Treaty Implementation. Northern Public Affairs 6(2). 

King, H., S. Pasternak and R. Yesno. 2019. Land Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper. (external link, opens in new window)  Toronto: Yellowhead Institute

King, H. and S. Pasternak. 2018.  Canada's Emerging Indigenous Rights Framework : A Critical Analysis. (external link, opens in new window)  Toronto: Yellowhead Institute. 

King, H. 2018. “Treaty Making and Breaking in Settler Colonial Canada” in Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada (external link, opens in new window)  (pp. 107-126), edited by J. Broadie. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

King, H. 2018. “Discourses of Conquest and Resistance: International Relations & Anishinaabe Diplomacy” in Race, Gender and Culture in International Relations: Postcolonial Perspectives, (external link, opens in new window)  edited by R.B. Persuad and A. Sajed. London, UK: Routledge.