Anne Janhunen PhD

Anne graduated with a M.A. from the University of Oulu, Finland in 2012, where she specialized in intercultural education and history. Her thesis examined representations of land, treaties, and settlement in Canadian history textbooks. Having passed her Ph.D. comprehensive exams in October 2013, she is now working on her dissertation, which focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century land use in Ontario as it relates to Indigenous communities. Using case studies focused on logging, agriculture, and park creation, her dissertation explores the ways in which Indigenous individuals and communities have drawn on, and adjusted, practices and livelihoods as a result of government- and industry-driven changes in land use, both on reserve and within broader ancestral territories. In the Historical GIS Lab, Anne works on digitizing historical maps and contract mapping.