Director and Editor, Études/Inuit/Studies
Université Laval
Biography: Murielle Nagy has been director and editor of the journal Études/Inuit/Studies since 2002, and adjunct professor at the department of anthropology of Université Laval since 2011. She is also a consultant in anthropology, a researcher at the CIÉRA (Centre interuniversitaire d'études et de recherches autochtones) of Université Laval and the secretary of the Inuksiutiit Katimajiit Association. She received an M.A. in archaeology from Simon Fraser University (1988) and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Alberta (1997). From 1990 to 2000, she coordinated three major oral history projects for the Inuvialuit of the western Canadian Arctic. She was awarded postdoctoral bursaries to work on the anthropological research of Oblate missionary Émile Petitot. She served as coordinator of IASSA (International Arctic Social Sciences Association) from 1998 to 2001.