Positions
Education
Teaching Areas
Undergraduate Programs
- Sociology
Graduate Studies
- Environmental Science/Studies, MESc/MES
- History, MA
- Sociology, MA
Graduate Supervision
Accepting Students for Supervision
School year
- 2026/27
- 2027/28
- 2028/29
Supervised Theses / Projects
- Select Supervised Theses:
- Maitland, Jason. 2024. An Analysis of the Challenges Facing Trinidad and Tobago in Decarbonzation. Master of Environmental Studies MRP, Nipissing University.
- Trudel, Rebekah. 2024. Le zistwer, le tisaj a douaw dla len pi la sintsur fleche/ Les histories, tisse la laine et la ceinture Flechee/Stories, Finger weaving and the Sash. Master of History MRP, Nipissing University.
- Paulin, Megan. 2023. Aadizookewinini: An exploration of the impacts of colonization on N’bisiing through storytelling. Master of Environmental Studies Thesis, Nipissing University.
- White, Jenna. 2021. An Analysis of Canada’s Role with the UNECE Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents. Master of Environmental Studies MRP, Nipissing University.
- Kelly, Mary. 2020. Multilocality and Multivocality of Place in a Subarea of the Algonquin Land Claim Settlement: the perspectives of trappers and hunters. Master of Environmental Studies Thesis, Nipissing University.
Research
Research Interests
Dr. Carly Dokis is an environmental anthropologist who has worked with Indigenous communities in Canada for over twenty years, first in the Northwest Territories and more recently in Northeastern Ontario. Her work has explored and amplified relations to land and water that present vastly different possibilities from those associated with late-stage capitalism. Dr. Dokis has raised critical questions about how the impacts of extractive industries are assessed and mitigated, focusing in particular on large energy mega-projects in the Canadian North. Her research has traced how colonial regulatory institutions, environmental management practices, and governance structures frequently mischaracterize the harms of capitalogenic change and thus constrain solutions that could result in more equitable and just environmental, social, and political futures. Her current research, conducted in partnership with Dokis First Nation, is funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant, and explores stories that community members tell about their relationships to the land and their experiences of environmental and social change over time.
Grants & Funding
- 2020-2028 Taking Care of Our Stories (SSHRC Insight Grant, Principal Investigator).
- 2017-2022 Mno Nimkodadding Geegi (We Are All Connected): The Ontario Node of the Indigenous Mentorship Network Program (CIHR Training Grant, Co-Investigator).
- 2015-2019 Contested Waters: Exploring the Lived Experience of Water Quality Risks in an Anishinaabe Community in Northern Ontario (SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Principal Investigator).
- 2013 -2015 Sustainable Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems Through A Bottom-Up Participatory Technology Development Process – A Case Study in three Indigenous Communities in Canada (NSERC Canadian Water Network, Co-Investigator)
Open to Media Inquiries
Publications
Book Chapters, Edited
Dokis, Carly. 2015. Where the Rivers Meet: Pipelines, Participatory Resource Management, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Northwest Territories. Vancouver: UBC Press. Murton, James, Dean Bavington, and Carly Dokis. 2016. Subsistence Under Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Rural, Wildland and Resources Studies Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Press.
King, A., Pearce, T., Dizon, Paul., Earley, S. & Dokis, C. 2026. Indigenous Engagement in Oilfield Remediation: A Case Study of the Norman Wells Oilfield, Northwest Territories, Canada. Journal of Environmental Science and Policy, 177, 104399. Read more
Dokis, C., Restoule, R., & Kelly, B. 2025. Contested Waters: Political Ontologies of Water and the Production of Risk in First Nations Water Systems. Anthropologica, 67(1).Read more
Dokis, Carly. 2023. Imposing Calculations: The visibility and invisibility of harm in the Mackenzie Gas Project environmental assessment. Frontiers in Sociology, 7, 1056277. DOI: Read more
Lukawiecki, J, Gagnon, R, Dokis, C., Walters, D, & Molot, L. 2019. Meaningful Engagement with Indigenous Peoples” A Case Study of Ontario’s Great Lakes Protection Act. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 37(4) DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2019.1681261
Dokis, C. 2022. Constructing and Contesting Temporalities in the Mackenzie Gas Project Environmental Assessment. Arctic Abstractive Industry. Arthur Mason (ed.). Berghahn Books. Dokis, C. 2020. Hauling Water. Search After Method. J. Laplante, A. Gandsman, & W. Scobie, eds. Berghahn Books. Restoule, P, Dokis, C, and Kelly, B. 2018. Working to Protect the Water. Indigenous Research: Theories, Practices, and Relationships. D. McGreggor, J.P. Restoule, and R. Johnston, eds. Canadian Scholars Press
Articles in Refereed Journals, Refereed Book Chapters, and Refereed Edited Collections
King, A., Pearce, T., Dizon, Paul., Earley, S. & Dokis, C. 2026. Indigenous Engagement in Oilfield Remediation: A Case Study of the Norman Wells Oilfield, Northwest Territories, Canada. Journal of Environmental Science and Policy, 177, 104399. Read more
Dokis, C., Restoule, R., & Kelly, B. 2025. Contested Waters: Political Ontologies of Water and the Production of Risk in First Nations Water Systems. Anthropologica, 67(1). Read more
Dokis, Carly. 2023. Imposing Calculations: The visibility and invisibility of harm in the Mackenzie Gas Project environmental assessment. Frontiers in Sociology, 7, 1056277. DOI: Read more
Lukawiecki, J, Gagnon, R, Dokis, C., Walters, D, & Molot, L. 2019. Meaningful Engagement with Indigenous Peoples” A Case Study of Ontario’s Great Lakes Protection Act. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 37(4) DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2019.1681261