Warden and Vice-Chancellor, St John’s College
B.A. University of Toronto 1977
B.Th. McGill University 1985
Ph.D. University of Toronto 1989
Office: 218 St. John's College
Phone: (204) 474-8529
Email: trottcg@cc.umanitoba.ca
Research Interests
Inuit Kinship and Social Organization
Analysis of Inuit Myth and Oral Traditions
Anglican Missionaries and Religious Change in the Eastern Arctic
Inuit Perceptions of Climate Change
Teaching Interests and Courses
NATV 2080 - Inuit Society and Culture
NATV 2420 - Inuit Literatures in Translation
NATV 3370 - Political Development in the North
NATV 3380 - Cultural Constructions of Gender in Canadian Aboriginal Societies
NATV 4280 - Missionaries, Colonialism and Aboriginal Peoples
NATV 7230 - Methodology and Research Issues in Native Studies
Recent Publications
Book
2010
(with Carol Charles) From Felixstowe to Pangnirtung: A Gift of Memories. Lavenham, Suffolk: Lavenham Press.
Film
2010
Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change. Translator and advisor in the production of this film with Zacharias Kunuk and Ian Mauro.
Articles
2008
“The Gender of the Bear: Bear Symbolism and the Third Sex among the Inuit” in Kaarina Kailo (ed.), Wo(men) and Bears: The Gifts of Nature, Culture and Gender Revisited. Toronto: Inanna Press. pp. 273-290.
“'I Suggest that You Pursue Conversion': Aboriginal Peoples and the Anglican Church of Canada after the Second World War” in Norman Knowles (ed.), Seeds Scattered and Sown: Studies in the History of Canadian Anglicanism. Toronto: Anglican Book Centre. pp. 321-345.
2007
“Ilagiit and tuqλuraqtuq: Inuit understandings of kinship and social relatedness. “ Paper posted at URL: http://www.cst.ed.ac.uk/2005conference/papers/Trott_paper.pdf.
2006
“The Gender of the Bear: Bear Symbolism and the Third Sex among the Inuit.” Etudes/Inuit/Studies, 30.
2004
“St. Luke’s Hospital, Panniqtuuq: Space for Cultural Encounter.” Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society, XLVI (2): 117-128.
2001
“The Dialectics of ‘Us’ and ‘Other’: Anglican Missionary Photographs of the Inuit”. American Review of Canadian Studies, 31 (1-2), (Spring/Summer): 171-190.
2000
“Structure into Practice: A Theory of Inuit Music” in Karen Ralls-MacLeod and Graham Harvey (eds.), Indigenous Religious Musics. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 183-197.
“Projecting an Image: Lantern Slide Presentations of Anglican Missionaries in the Western Arctic” In Jill Oakes, Rick Riewe, Skip Koolage, Leanne Simpson and Nancy Schuster (eds.), Aboriginal Health, Identity and Resources. Winnipeg: Native Studies Press, pp. 245-258.
1998
"Mission and Opposition in North Baffin Island", Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society, Vol. XXXX(1): 31-55.
1997
“The Rapture and the Rupture: religious change in North Baffin Island”, Etudes/Inuit/Studies, 21(1-2): 209-228.
1995
"The Cannibal Theme among the Inuit: a case study in inversions", Igitur VI-VII(1-2):17-37.
1994
"Canada: Religion: Religions of Native Peoples" in Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 5: 415-416.
1982
"The Semiotics of Inuit Sculpture: Art and Sananguat". Recherches Semiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry, 2(4): 337-359.
"The Inuk as Object: Some problems in the Study of Inuit Social Organization". Etudes/Inuit/Studies 6(2):93-108.
1976
An Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Tyrrell Sea Beach, Manitoba. Papers in Manitoba Archaeology, Department of Tourism, Recreation and Cultural Affairs, Historic Resources Branch, Winnipeg. With W. J. Wood and L. F. Pettipas. 64 pp.
Book Reviews
2010
Review of Kira Van Deusen, Kiviuq: An Inuit Hero and His Siberian Cousins. Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 30(1): 194-196.
2009
Review of A. T. Bergerud, et. al., The Return of the Caribou to Ungava. Native Studies Review, 18(2): 141-144.
2008
Review of Edward J. Hedican. Applied Anthropology in Canada: Understanding Aboriginal Issues [Second Edition], Canadian Ethnic Studies 40(2): 208-210.
Review of Ann Fienup-Riordan, Yuungnaqpiallerput: The Way We Genuinely Live, Materworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival. Canadian Journal of Native Studies 28(2): 435-438.
Review of Frederic Laugrand, Jarich Oosten, FrancoisTrudel (ed.), Apostle to the Inuit: The Journals and Ethnographic Notes of Edmund JamesPeck, The Baffin Years, 1894-1905. Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 28(2): 438-442.
2006
Review of Bernard Saladin d’Aglure, Être et renaître Inuit: homme, femme, et chamane. Etudes/Inuit/Studies, 30(2):230-233.
2005
“Review of Gisli Palsson, Travelling Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson”, Manitoba History.
“Review of David Damas, Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers”, American Review of Canadian Studies, 35(4): 756-759.
2000
“Review of Milton M. R. Freeman et. al., Inuit, Whaling and Sustainability”, Anthropologica, XLII(2): 249-250.
1999
“Review of David T. McNab (ed.), Earth, Water Air and Fire”, University of Toronto Quarterly, 69(1): 159-160.
1998
“Review of Jean Briggs, Inuit Morality Play”, Thule, n. 4/5 (aprile-ottobre): 302-305.
1996
"Review of Victor and Edith L. B. Turner, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture", Culture, Vol. XVI(2): 102-103.
"Review of Constance Classen, Worlds of Sense", Canadian Journal of Sociology, 21(2): 269-272.
1995
"Review of Robert Choquette, The Oblate Assault of Canada's Northwest", Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 15(2): 369-371.
Grants and Contracts
2009 “Culture and ecology in Cumberland Sound: community adaptations to global warming”. SSHRC Research Grants - Northern Communities: Towards Social and Economic Prosperity, $243,950 over 3 years. Christopher Trott , Principle Investigator with Peter Kulchyski and Ian Mauro.
2008 SSHRC Conference Support Grant for the Sixteenth Inuit Studies Conference, $9,800.
2006 “Nunaqatigijavut: social space and family networks in Cumberland Sound 1982-2007”. SSHRC Northern Research Development Program grant, $39,800.
Academic and Community Service
Senior Fellow, St. John’s College
Member, Diocese of Rupert’s Land Archives Committee
Past President, Canadian Church Historical Society
Prizes
2011 University 1 Teaching Excellence Award.
2010 Faculty of Arts Outstanding Achievement award.
2003 St. John’s College Student’s Association Fellow of the Year Award
2002 Faculty of Arts Teaching Achievement Award, University of Manitoba