Erich Fox Tree
Associate Professor Chair of the Department of Religion and Culture Faculty of Arts Religion and Culture Waterloo, Ontario efoxtree@wlu.ca
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English
Bio/Research
Since earning my PhD Anthropology from Stanford in 2004 for research into Maya activism’s influence on local language ideologies and land conflicts in Guatemala, my primary teaching has dealt with anti-colonial struggles for autonomy by Native groups from across the Americas. I teach about Indige...
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Bio/Research
Since earning my PhD Anthropology from Stanford in 2004 for research into Maya activism’s influence on local language ideologies and land conflicts in Guatemala, my primary teaching has dealt with anti-colonial struggles for autonomy by Native groups from across the Americas. I teach about Indigenous religion and realities at Wilfrid Laurier while continuing to conduct research into indigenous spoken and signed languages, resource conflicts, political activism, popular culture, ethnohistory, and religious ideologies in Mesoamerica and North America.
I take pride in finding humorously odd angles on the all-too-frequently discomforting social realities I teach and study. For example, to explain under-acknowledged-yet-popular race/class/gender ideologies, I have not only dabbled in the science of barbology, but have also taught a curse-filled course on cursing. I have also re-directed skills as a cartoonist into a long-term project of documenting and promoting Meemul Tziij: a set of ancient Indigenous sign languages used in Mexico and Guatemala that may be the oldest documentable sign languages on the planet.
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I take pride in finding humorously odd angles on the all-too-frequently discomforting social realities I teach and study. For example, to explain under-acknowledged-yet-popular race/class/gender ideologies, I have not only dabbled in the science of barbology, but have also taught a curse-filled course on cursing. I have also re-directed skills as a cartoonist into a long-term project of documenting and promoting Meemul Tziij: a set of ancient Indigenous sign languages used in Mexico and Guatemala that may be the oldest documentable sign languages on the planet.
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Media Relations
Aonghus Kealy
Communications and Media Relations Officer
akealy@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4855
Lori Chalmers Morrison
Director: Integrated Communications
lchalmersmorrison@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4857
Vanessa Barrasa
Director: Communications & Issues Management
vbarrasa@wlu.ca
(548) 889-3812
Brantford Campus:
Beth Gurney
Director, Strategic Communications and Community Engagement
bgurney@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4199
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Communications and Media Relations Officer
akealy@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4855
Lori Chalmers Morrison
Director: Integrated Communications
lchalmersmorrison@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4857
Vanessa Barrasa
Director: Communications & Issues Management
vbarrasa@wlu.ca
(548) 889-3812
Brantford Campus:
Beth Gurney
Director, Strategic Communications and Community Engagement
bgurney@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4199
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