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Mike Evans

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Associate Professor

Degrees

• BA (University of Victoria)
• MA (McMaster University)
• PhD (McMaster University)

Research Interests

• Urban Aboriginal Issues
• Métis History and Contemporary Issues 
• Tonga 
• Oceania 
• Trans-national migration and globalization 
• Whaling and whale-watching tourism 
• Trade liberalization, diet, and nutrition in the Pacific

Selected Publications

• Evans, Mike, Rachelle Hole, Lawrence Berg. Peter Hutchinson, Dixon Sookraj, and the Okanagan Urban Aboriginal Research Health Collective. Common Insights, Differing Methodologies: Towards a Fusion of Indigenous Methodologies, Participatory Action Research, and White Studies in an Urban Aboriginal Research Agenda. In Press. Qualitative Inquiry. 
• Evans, Mike, Marcelle Gareau, Leona Nielson, Lisa Krebs, and Heidi Standeven (eds) 2007 What it is to be a Métis. Prince George: University of Northern British Columbia Press. Originally published 1999 - reprinted April 2007. 
• Wagner, John and Mike Evans, eds.  2007 Special Issue: Property and Ecology in Oceania. Special Issue of Human Organization, Human Organization 66(1). 
• Evans, Mike 2007 “Property, Propriety, and Ecology in Contemporary Tonga” Human Organization 66(1): 22-27. 
• Evans, Mike and Lisa Krebs with John Bogle, Bob Parris, and Heidi Standeven. A Brief History of the Short Life of the Island Cache. Solstice Series #2. 152 pages. Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press. Edmonton. 2004.  
• Evans, Mike. "Ethics, Anonymity, and Authorship in Community Centred Research". Pimatisiwin: An International Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Health. 2.1. (2004). pp. 59 - 75. 
• Evans, Mike, Robert C Sinclair, Caroline Fusimalohi, and Viliami Liava’a  2001 "Globalization, diet and health: an example from Tonga", International Bulletin of the World Health Organization 79(9): 856-862. 
• Evans, Mike  2001 Persistence of the Gift: Tongan Tradition in Transnational Context Waterloo ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. (2.3 MB PDF)

Affiliations

• Adjunct Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Northern British Columbia 
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Canadian Circumpolar Institute, University of Alberta 
• Research Director, Métis Nation of BC

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Contact

ART: 368B
Phone:  (250) 807-9401
Fax: (250) 807-8001
E-mail: mike.evans@ubc.ca

Evans CV (PDF)

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BC Métis Research Agenda: History and Culture DVD video

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