Background
Michelle Lelièvre, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, is an anthropological archaeologist whose research interests include mobility and sedentarist ideologies, historical and indigenous archaeologies, ethnohistory and (post-) colonial studies. Using an interdisciplinary and collaborative research methodology, Professor Lelièvre examines how mobility mediates socio-political relationships between traditionally and non-traditionally mobile peoples. Her research combines archaeological and contemporary material culture, oral histories, archival evidence and ethnographic observation to identify the sedentarist ideology that underlay much of the Church and Crown's policy toward the traditionally mobile indigenous Mi'kmaq population of Nova Scotia.