Janice Forsyth

Janice Forsyth is a Canadian associate professor of Sociology and the director of the Indigenous Studies program at Western University in London, Ontario.

Janice Forsyth, Associate Professor, Dept. Sociology, Faculty of Social Science and Director, Indigenous Studies at Western University, 2017

Early life and education

Forsyth was born in Toronto, Ontario and grew up in Northern Ontario. Her maternal family is from the Fisher River Cree and Peguis First Nation, Manitoba, Canada.[1]

Forsyth has three degrees from Western University, where she completed a BA in 1997, a MA in 2000, and a PhD in 2005.[2][3] While studying at Western, she was a varsity athlete, and won several athletic awards from Western University.[4] She medalled in badminton at the Ontario University Athletics Championships[4] and won silver in the 300m at their 1995 Track & Field Championship.[4] In 2002 that Forsyth received the Tom Longboat Regional Award for Ontario at the North American Indigenous Games.[5]

Forsyth studied the Socio-Cultural Study of Sport for her PhD degree. After graduating, she was an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba from 2005 to 2008 and at the University of Alberta from 2008 to 2009. In 2010, she returned Western University as an associate professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, serving as director for the International Centre for Olympic Studies at Western until 2015.[1][3]

Some of her research interests are centred around the Olympic Games, Canadian Residential Schools, equity issues in Canadian sport, and Aboriginal sport and health.[2]

Awards

In 2013, Forsyth was awarded the NASSH Book of the Year Award for Best Anthology for Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues , which she co-edited with Audrey Giles from the University of Ottawa,[6] and the Early Researcher Award/Premier's Research Excellence Award from the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development & Innovation.[2] In 2015, she was named the winner for best paper published in the journal Sport History for her article "Make the Indian Understand his Place: Politics and the Establishment of the Tom Longboat Awards at Indian Affairs and the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada."[7]

Additional work

Outside of academia Forsyth has written articles for news sources such as HuffPost Canada[8] and The Guardian,[9] as well as being interviewed by multiple media outlets such as the Toronto Star, SportsNet, the Globe and Mail, CBC, and the Aboriginal People's Television Network.[10]

Through 2017, she has been leading discussions around sport and reconciliation, stemming from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports (released in 2015), with government and non-profit sectors in sport, physical activity, physical education, and health.[5][11][12]

Selected publications

Forsyth, J. & Wamsley, K. (2006). ‘Native to Native we’ll recapture our spirits’: The World Indigenous Nations Games and the North American Indigenous Games as cultural resistance. International Journal of History of Sport, 23(2), 294–314. 

Forsyth, J. (2007). The Indian Act and the (re)shaping of Canadian Aboriginal sport practices. International Journal of Canadian Studies, 35, 95–111.[13]

Forsyth, J. & Wamsley, K. (2005). Symbols without substance: Aboriginal peoples and the illusion of Olympic ceremonies. In K. Young & K. Wamsley (Eds.), Global Olympics: Historical Foundations and Sociological Studies of the Modern Games (pp. 227–247). Oxford, UK: Elsevier Press. 

Forsyth, J. (2005). After the fur trade: First Nations women in Canadian history, 1850–1950. Atlantis, 29(2), 69–78.[14]

Forsyth, J. (2013). Bodies of meaning: Sports and games at Canadian residential schools. In J. Forsyth & A. Giles (Eds.), Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues (pp. 15–34). Vancouver, BC: UBC Press. 

References
  1. "Aboriginal sport expert guiding Olympic centre - Western Alumni". Alumni.westernu.ca. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
  2. "Janice Forsyth, PhD - School of Kinesiology - Western University". Uwo.ca. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
  3. LinkedIn (2017). "Janice Forsyth". LinkedIn.
  4. "Western Mustangs". Westernmustangs.ca. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
  5. Aboriginal Sport Circle, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (2017). "The Tom Longboat "National Awards 2017"" (PDF). Aboriginal Sport Circle.
  6. "NASSH Book Awards". Nassh.org. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  7. "Winner of the 2016 prize for best article in Sport in History". Sportinhistory.org. Retrieved 2017-10-28.
  8. "Janice Forsyth". HuffPost Canada. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  9. "Janice Forsyth". The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  10. Forsyth, Janice. "Janice Forsyth - Knowledge Translation". Janiceforsyth.com. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  11. "Thursday Presentations | Ophea Conference". Conference.ophea.net. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  12. "Rising to New Heights | This is a Canadian Issue: Reflecting on TRC Calls to Action". This is a Canadian Issue: Reflecting on TRC Calls to Action. 2016-04-15. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  13. Forsyth, Janice (2007). "The Indian Act and the (Re)Shaping of Canadian Aboriginal Sport Practices". International Journal of Canadian Studies (35). doi:10.7202/040765ar. ISSN 1180-3991.
  14. Forsyth, Janice (2005-04-01). "After the Fur Trade: First Nations Women in Canadian History, 1850 - 1950". Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice. 29 (2): 69–78. ISSN 1715-0698.
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