Zoe Todd

Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Founder of the Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures, Carleton University

Zoe Todd (Red River Métis) is an Associate Professor of Sociology and is an expert in Indigenous perspectives on freshwater fish conservation in western Canada (specifically, Alberta). Their current projects examine how Indigenous legal orders shape and refract western freshwater fish conservation paradigms. They are the founder of the Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures (2018), which is an international collective of scientists, artists, writers, landscape architects, architects, environmentalists, journalists, and community leaders dedicated to honouring reciprocal responsibilities to freshwater fish in watersheds locally and globally. They are a member of the Fluid Boundaries team that was shortlisted to represent Canada in the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale. They were a 2018-2019 Yale Presidential Visiting Fellow in the Program in the History of Science and Medicine. They are a member of the 2020 Class of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars. Dr. Todd is a co-PI on a project about bull trout conservation in Bighorn Country in southwestern Alberta titled ‘Plural Perspectives on Bighorn Country: restor(y)ing land use governance and bull trout population health in Alberta”, funded through an inaugural New Frontiers in Research Fund grant.