Marianne Ignace
Education
- PhD, Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Biography
Dr. Ignace has a joint appointment with Indigenous Studies and Director, Indigenous Languages Centre. Dr. Ignace completed her Ph.D. dissertation on the politics of Haida symbols which was published as The Curtain Within: Haida Social and Symbolic Discourse. She has also published articles on Haida oratory and Potlatching.
For the past twenty years, Dr. Ignace has focused her research on the Secwepemc (Shuswap) people of the Plateau, where her interests are aboriginal land use and occupancy, ethnobotany, traditional ecological knowledge, ethnohistory, and the linguistic and anthropological analysis of Aboriginal language discourse. She has authored and co-authored papers in various journals and books on these topics, and has also carried out research in the field of Aboriginal language revitalization, some of which is published in the Handbook for Aboriginal Language Program Planning in B.C. In recent years, she has worked with First Nations communities and elders on various language revitalization projects, including Secwepemctsin, St’at’imcets, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, Haida and Sm’algyax.
Courses
Spring 2026
- INLG 200 A330 Introduction to Grammar in an Indigenous Language
- INLG 335 A100 Topics in Indigenous Language I
- INLG 435 A100 Topics in Indigenous Language II
- LING 804 G110 Field Methods
- LING 890 G110 Graduate Seminar I
- LING 891 G110 Graduate Seminar II
- LING 896 G110 Directed Research
- LING 898 G200 MA Thesis
- LING 899 G600 PhD Thesis
Summer 2026
- INLG 130 A330 Practical Phonetics for Indigenous Languages
- INLG 158 A100 Indigenous Language Immersion I
- INLG 258 A010 Indigenous Language Immersion II
- INLG 300 A100 Advanced Grammar of an Indigenous Language
- INLG 335 A100 Topics in Indigenous Language I
- INLG 335 A330 Topics in Indigenous Language I
- INLG 358 A100 Indigenous Language Immersion III
- LING 898 G400 MA Thesis
- LING 899 G300 PhD Thesis
Future courses may be subject to change.