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Deondre Smiles

Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Victoria

Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Victoria Deondre Smiles currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Geography. He is Black/Ojibwe/settler, and is a citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. Smiles is a geographer whose research interests are multifaceted, including Indigenous geographies/epistemologies, human-environmental interaction, political ecology, and tribal cultural resource preservation/protection. He currently serves as the Chair of the Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG); he is also a member of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), and the Canadian Association of Geographers. (CAG). He also serves as a member of the editorial board of the journal Native American and Indigenous Studies.