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Candis Callison

Associate Faculty
Research / Teaching Area

About

Candis Callison is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous journalism, media, and public discourse, and an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She is also an associate faculty in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media. Her research and teaching are focused on changes to media practices, the rise and persistence of Indigenous journalism on digital platforms, journalism ethics, the role of Indigenous and environment-focused social movements in public discourse, and understanding how climate change becomes meaningful for diverse publics.

Candis is the co-author of Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities (Oxford University Press, 2020), which draws on five years of research with journalists in the U.S. and Canada at a variety of news organizations including startups, legacy media, and freelancers. For more on this book, see this interview in The Narwhal or listen to this two-part interview on Media Indigena.

Candis’ first book, How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke University Press, 2014) used ethnographic methods and a comparative lens to bring together the work of science journalists, scientists, and three distinct social groups that are outside environmental movement and policy frameworks in an American context. Candis was a founding co-director of the new Center for Climate Justice at UBC, and a co-author on the Social Systems and Justice chapter of the 5th US National Climate Assessment released in 2023.

An alumna of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Candis holds a Ph.D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, and a Master of Science in Comparative Media Studies.  She was the speaker at MIT’s 2018 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods.

In 2019, Candis became a member of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was a visiting professor at Princeton University in 2018-2019 as the Pathy Distinguished Visitor in Canadian Studies. While at Princeton, she co-convened the International Symposium on Climate Change and Indigenous Communities. Candis was a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellow from 2019-2021.

Candis is Tahltan (Tałtan), an Indigenous people located in what is now Northwestern British Columbia. She is a regular contributor on the podcast, Media Indigena. Candis also regularly speaks to news media and podcasters about issues related to Indigenous concerns and social movements, climate change, and journalism ethics.

Candis is a founding board member of Tu’dese’cho Wholistic Indigenous Leadership Development Society (T-WILD), the first Tałtan non-government organization, created to provide Tałtan people with land-based learning, leadership development, and cultural programming. In 2020, as part of T-WILD, Candis was a contributor to Our Ancestors’ Trail Exhibition at UBC.

Candis sits on the board of The Narwhal, an award-winning non-profit journalism organization supported by its members. In 2020, Candis was the recipient of the Bill Good Award from the Jack Webster Foundation, which “honours a B.C. individual or organization that makes a significant contribution to journalism in the province, or addresses a community’s needs and benefits via journalism.”

Prior to her academic work, Candis produced, wrote, and reported for television, the Internet, and radio in Canada (CBC, CTV) and the United States (Lycos, Tech TV). Candis was the original host and co-creator of First Story, the first news and current affairs series on Indigenous issues to be broadcast nationally in Canada on CTV; it was later syndicated to APTN. For her early concurrent work in media convergence, Candis was profiled in the 2003 book, Technology with Curves: Women Reshaping the Digital Landscape. Her independently produced film, Traditional Renaissance was included in UBC Museum of Anthropology’s 2003-04 exhibition on Tałtan culture, “Mehodihi: Our Great Ancestors Lived that Way.”

Candis is currently wrapping up a decade-long research project on Arctic Journalism that uses multiple research methods to examine changing professional norms, practices and standards for Canadian Arctic journalists working in an era of environmental change and global audiences. Since the project launched in 2014, research assistants have jointly conducted ethnographic research, completed a portion of their required Master of Journalism summer internships in the three northern Canadian territories, and provided live reporting and media analysis during the COP21 meetings in Paris.


Teaching


Publications

Callison, “Rethinking Our Histories and Relations with Climate Change,” in Climate, Science and Society: A Primer, edited By Zeke Baker, Tamar Law, Mark Vardy, and Stephen Zehr, Routledge, 2024.

Marino, E.K., K. Maxwell, E. Eisenhauer, A. Zycherman, C. Callison, E. Fussell, M.D. Hendricks, F.H. Jacobs, A. Jerolleman, A.K. Jorgenson, E.M. Markowitz, S.T. Marquart-Pyatt, M. Schutten, R.L. Shwom, and K. Whyte, 2023: Ch. 20. “Social systems and justice.” In: Fifth National Climate Assessment. Crimmins, A.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, B.C. Stewart, and T.K. Maycock, Eds. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA.

Callison, “Journalism in Canada’s Northern Territories: Digital Media, Civic Spaces, Indigenous Publics,” in Risky Futures: Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North, edited by Olga Ulturgasheva and Barbara Bodenhorn, Berghan Books, 2022

Callison, “Journalism, Indigenous Knowing, and Climate Futures (and Pasts)” in Negotiating Rifts of Time: Journalism and Climate Change, edited by Henrik Bødker and Hanna E. Morris, Routledge, 2022

Callison, “Refusing more empire: utility, colonialism, and Indigenous knowing,” Climatic Change, 2021

Callison, “What COVID-19 and climate change teach us about syndemics,’” Policy Options, 2021

Callison and Young, “Attending to The Reckoning and the Voiceless: Multiple Truths, Systems Approaches to Journalism,” Handbook of Global Media Ethics, Springer, 2021

Young and Callison, “Data Journalism: In Whose Interests?,” The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice, edited by Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray, Amsterdam University Press, 2021

Callison, “Calling it a crisis isn’t enough (if it ever was),” Nieman Lab Predictions, 2020

Callison, “The 12 year window: Locating crisis, climate change, and colonialism,” Isis, 2020

Callison and Young, “It’s time for a new approach to journalism,” Toronto Star, 2020

Callison and Young, Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities, Oxford University Press, 2020

Callison, “Communal matters and scientific facts: Making sense of climate change” in Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: A Casebook, edited by Henry Jenkins, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, and Sangita Shresthova, NYU Press, 2020

Callison, “Learn from Indigenous Journalists on Covering Climate Change,”Nieman Lab Predictions, 2019

Callison, “Communal Lives and Climate Change: Convening spaces for Indigenous publics, narratives, and knowledge,” International Symposium on Climate Change and Indigenous Communities, Princeton University, 2018

Callison, Panelist on Why gender and colonialism matter in journalism startups, International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy, 2018

Callison and Young, “Stanley trial highlights colonialism of Canadian media,”The Conversation Canada, 2018

Young and Callison, “When gender, colonialism and technology matter in a journalism startup,” Journalism, 2017

Callison, “Climate Change Communication and Indigenous Publics” Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Science, 2017

Callison and Tindall, “Climate Change Communication in Canada” Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Science, 2017

Callison, “Beyond COP21: Collaborating With Indigenous People To Understand Climate Change And The Arctic,”in Ecologising MuseumsL’internationale, 2016

Callison and Hermida, “Dissent and Resonance: #Idlenomore as an emergent middle ground,” Canadian Journal of Communication, 2016

Callison and Hermida, “Idle No More in Canada: Dissent, Resonance, and a Middle Ground,” Civic Media Project, MIT Press, 2015

Callison, How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts, Duke University Press, 2014


Candis Callison

Associate Faculty
Research / Teaching Area

About

Candis Callison is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous journalism, media, and public discourse, and an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She is also an associate faculty in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media. Her research and teaching are focused on changes to media practices, the rise and persistence of Indigenous journalism on digital platforms, journalism ethics, the role of Indigenous and environment-focused social movements in public discourse, and understanding how climate change becomes meaningful for diverse publics.

Candis is the co-author of Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities (Oxford University Press, 2020), which draws on five years of research with journalists in the U.S. and Canada at a variety of news organizations including startups, legacy media, and freelancers. For more on this book, see this interview in The Narwhal or listen to this two-part interview on Media Indigena.

Candis’ first book, How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke University Press, 2014) used ethnographic methods and a comparative lens to bring together the work of science journalists, scientists, and three distinct social groups that are outside environmental movement and policy frameworks in an American context. Candis was a founding co-director of the new Center for Climate Justice at UBC, and a co-author on the Social Systems and Justice chapter of the 5th US National Climate Assessment released in 2023.

An alumna of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Candis holds a Ph.D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, and a Master of Science in Comparative Media Studies.  She was the speaker at MIT’s 2018 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods.

In 2019, Candis became a member of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was a visiting professor at Princeton University in 2018-2019 as the Pathy Distinguished Visitor in Canadian Studies. While at Princeton, she co-convened the International Symposium on Climate Change and Indigenous Communities. Candis was a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellow from 2019-2021.

Candis is Tahltan (Tałtan), an Indigenous people located in what is now Northwestern British Columbia. She is a regular contributor on the podcast, Media Indigena. Candis also regularly speaks to news media and podcasters about issues related to Indigenous concerns and social movements, climate change, and journalism ethics.

Candis is a founding board member of Tu’dese’cho Wholistic Indigenous Leadership Development Society (T-WILD), the first Tałtan non-government organization, created to provide Tałtan people with land-based learning, leadership development, and cultural programming. In 2020, as part of T-WILD, Candis was a contributor to Our Ancestors’ Trail Exhibition at UBC.

Candis sits on the board of The Narwhal, an award-winning non-profit journalism organization supported by its members. In 2020, Candis was the recipient of the Bill Good Award from the Jack Webster Foundation, which “honours a B.C. individual or organization that makes a significant contribution to journalism in the province, or addresses a community’s needs and benefits via journalism.”

Prior to her academic work, Candis produced, wrote, and reported for television, the Internet, and radio in Canada (CBC, CTV) and the United States (Lycos, Tech TV). Candis was the original host and co-creator of First Story, the first news and current affairs series on Indigenous issues to be broadcast nationally in Canada on CTV; it was later syndicated to APTN. For her early concurrent work in media convergence, Candis was profiled in the 2003 book, Technology with Curves: Women Reshaping the Digital Landscape. Her independently produced film, Traditional Renaissance was included in UBC Museum of Anthropology’s 2003-04 exhibition on Tałtan culture, “Mehodihi: Our Great Ancestors Lived that Way.”

Candis is currently wrapping up a decade-long research project on Arctic Journalism that uses multiple research methods to examine changing professional norms, practices and standards for Canadian Arctic journalists working in an era of environmental change and global audiences. Since the project launched in 2014, research assistants have jointly conducted ethnographic research, completed a portion of their required Master of Journalism summer internships in the three northern Canadian territories, and provided live reporting and media analysis during the COP21 meetings in Paris.


Teaching


Publications

Callison, “Rethinking Our Histories and Relations with Climate Change,” in Climate, Science and Society: A Primer, edited By Zeke Baker, Tamar Law, Mark Vardy, and Stephen Zehr, Routledge, 2024.

Marino, E.K., K. Maxwell, E. Eisenhauer, A. Zycherman, C. Callison, E. Fussell, M.D. Hendricks, F.H. Jacobs, A. Jerolleman, A.K. Jorgenson, E.M. Markowitz, S.T. Marquart-Pyatt, M. Schutten, R.L. Shwom, and K. Whyte, 2023: Ch. 20. “Social systems and justice.” In: Fifth National Climate Assessment. Crimmins, A.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, B.C. Stewart, and T.K. Maycock, Eds. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA.

Callison, “Journalism in Canada’s Northern Territories: Digital Media, Civic Spaces, Indigenous Publics,” in Risky Futures: Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North, edited by Olga Ulturgasheva and Barbara Bodenhorn, Berghan Books, 2022

Callison, “Journalism, Indigenous Knowing, and Climate Futures (and Pasts)” in Negotiating Rifts of Time: Journalism and Climate Change, edited by Henrik Bødker and Hanna E. Morris, Routledge, 2022

Callison, “Refusing more empire: utility, colonialism, and Indigenous knowing,” Climatic Change, 2021

Callison, “What COVID-19 and climate change teach us about syndemics,’” Policy Options, 2021

Callison and Young, “Attending to The Reckoning and the Voiceless: Multiple Truths, Systems Approaches to Journalism,” Handbook of Global Media Ethics, Springer, 2021

Young and Callison, “Data Journalism: In Whose Interests?,” The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice, edited by Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray, Amsterdam University Press, 2021

Callison, “Calling it a crisis isn’t enough (if it ever was),” Nieman Lab Predictions, 2020

Callison, “The 12 year window: Locating crisis, climate change, and colonialism,” Isis, 2020

Callison and Young, “It’s time for a new approach to journalism,” Toronto Star, 2020

Callison and Young, Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities, Oxford University Press, 2020

Callison, “Communal matters and scientific facts: Making sense of climate change” in Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: A Casebook, edited by Henry Jenkins, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, and Sangita Shresthova, NYU Press, 2020

Callison, “Learn from Indigenous Journalists on Covering Climate Change,”Nieman Lab Predictions, 2019

Callison, “Communal Lives and Climate Change: Convening spaces for Indigenous publics, narratives, and knowledge,” International Symposium on Climate Change and Indigenous Communities, Princeton University, 2018

Callison, Panelist on Why gender and colonialism matter in journalism startups, International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy, 2018

Callison and Young, “Stanley trial highlights colonialism of Canadian media,”The Conversation Canada, 2018

Young and Callison, “When gender, colonialism and technology matter in a journalism startup,” Journalism, 2017

Callison, “Climate Change Communication and Indigenous Publics” Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Science, 2017

Callison and Tindall, “Climate Change Communication in Canada” Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Science, 2017

Callison, “Beyond COP21: Collaborating With Indigenous People To Understand Climate Change And The Arctic,”in Ecologising MuseumsL’internationale, 2016

Callison and Hermida, “Dissent and Resonance: #Idlenomore as an emergent middle ground,” Canadian Journal of Communication, 2016

Callison and Hermida, “Idle No More in Canada: Dissent, Resonance, and a Middle Ground,” Civic Media Project, MIT Press, 2015

Callison, How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts, Duke University Press, 2014


Candis Callison

Associate Faculty
Research / Teaching Area
About keyboard_arrow_down

Candis Callison is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous journalism, media, and public discourse, and an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She is also an associate faculty in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media. Her research and teaching are focused on changes to media practices, the rise and persistence of Indigenous journalism on digital platforms, journalism ethics, the role of Indigenous and environment-focused social movements in public discourse, and understanding how climate change becomes meaningful for diverse publics.

Candis is the co-author of Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities (Oxford University Press, 2020), which draws on five years of research with journalists in the U.S. and Canada at a variety of news organizations including startups, legacy media, and freelancers. For more on this book, see this interview in The Narwhal or listen to this two-part interview on Media Indigena.

Candis’ first book, How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke University Press, 2014) used ethnographic methods and a comparative lens to bring together the work of science journalists, scientists, and three distinct social groups that are outside environmental movement and policy frameworks in an American context. Candis was a founding co-director of the new Center for Climate Justice at UBC, and a co-author on the Social Systems and Justice chapter of the 5th US National Climate Assessment released in 2023.

An alumna of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Candis holds a Ph.D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, and a Master of Science in Comparative Media Studies.  She was the speaker at MIT’s 2018 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods.

In 2019, Candis became a member of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was a visiting professor at Princeton University in 2018-2019 as the Pathy Distinguished Visitor in Canadian Studies. While at Princeton, she co-convened the International Symposium on Climate Change and Indigenous Communities. Candis was a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellow from 2019-2021.

Candis is Tahltan (Tałtan), an Indigenous people located in what is now Northwestern British Columbia. She is a regular contributor on the podcast, Media Indigena. Candis also regularly speaks to news media and podcasters about issues related to Indigenous concerns and social movements, climate change, and journalism ethics.

Candis is a founding board member of Tu’dese’cho Wholistic Indigenous Leadership Development Society (T-WILD), the first Tałtan non-government organization, created to provide Tałtan people with land-based learning, leadership development, and cultural programming. In 2020, as part of T-WILD, Candis was a contributor to Our Ancestors’ Trail Exhibition at UBC.

Candis sits on the board of The Narwhal, an award-winning non-profit journalism organization supported by its members. In 2020, Candis was the recipient of the Bill Good Award from the Jack Webster Foundation, which “honours a B.C. individual or organization that makes a significant contribution to journalism in the province, or addresses a community’s needs and benefits via journalism.”

Prior to her academic work, Candis produced, wrote, and reported for television, the Internet, and radio in Canada (CBC, CTV) and the United States (Lycos, Tech TV). Candis was the original host and co-creator of First Story, the first news and current affairs series on Indigenous issues to be broadcast nationally in Canada on CTV; it was later syndicated to APTN. For her early concurrent work in media convergence, Candis was profiled in the 2003 book, Technology with Curves: Women Reshaping the Digital Landscape. Her independently produced film, Traditional Renaissance was included in UBC Museum of Anthropology’s 2003-04 exhibition on Tałtan culture, “Mehodihi: Our Great Ancestors Lived that Way.”

Candis is currently wrapping up a decade-long research project on Arctic Journalism that uses multiple research methods to examine changing professional norms, practices and standards for Canadian Arctic journalists working in an era of environmental change and global audiences. Since the project launched in 2014, research assistants have jointly conducted ethnographic research, completed a portion of their required Master of Journalism summer internships in the three northern Canadian territories, and provided live reporting and media analysis during the COP21 meetings in Paris.

Teaching keyboard_arrow_down
Publications keyboard_arrow_down

Callison, “Rethinking Our Histories and Relations with Climate Change,” in Climate, Science and Society: A Primer, edited By Zeke Baker, Tamar Law, Mark Vardy, and Stephen Zehr, Routledge, 2024.

Marino, E.K., K. Maxwell, E. Eisenhauer, A. Zycherman, C. Callison, E. Fussell, M.D. Hendricks, F.H. Jacobs, A. Jerolleman, A.K. Jorgenson, E.M. Markowitz, S.T. Marquart-Pyatt, M. Schutten, R.L. Shwom, and K. Whyte, 2023: Ch. 20. “Social systems and justice.” In: Fifth National Climate Assessment. Crimmins, A.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, B.C. Stewart, and T.K. Maycock, Eds. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA.

Callison, “Journalism in Canada’s Northern Territories: Digital Media, Civic Spaces, Indigenous Publics,” in Risky Futures: Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North, edited by Olga Ulturgasheva and Barbara Bodenhorn, Berghan Books, 2022

Callison, “Journalism, Indigenous Knowing, and Climate Futures (and Pasts)” in Negotiating Rifts of Time: Journalism and Climate Change, edited by Henrik Bødker and Hanna E. Morris, Routledge, 2022

Callison, “Refusing more empire: utility, colonialism, and Indigenous knowing,” Climatic Change, 2021

Callison, “What COVID-19 and climate change teach us about syndemics,’” Policy Options, 2021

Callison and Young, “Attending to The Reckoning and the Voiceless: Multiple Truths, Systems Approaches to Journalism,” Handbook of Global Media Ethics, Springer, 2021

Young and Callison, “Data Journalism: In Whose Interests?,” The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice, edited by Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray, Amsterdam University Press, 2021

Callison, “Calling it a crisis isn’t enough (if it ever was),” Nieman Lab Predictions, 2020

Callison, “The 12 year window: Locating crisis, climate change, and colonialism,” Isis, 2020

Callison and Young, “It’s time for a new approach to journalism,” Toronto Star, 2020

Callison and Young, Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities, Oxford University Press, 2020

Callison, “Communal matters and scientific facts: Making sense of climate change” in Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: A Casebook, edited by Henry Jenkins, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, and Sangita Shresthova, NYU Press, 2020

Callison, “Learn from Indigenous Journalists on Covering Climate Change,”Nieman Lab Predictions, 2019

Callison, “Communal Lives and Climate Change: Convening spaces for Indigenous publics, narratives, and knowledge,” International Symposium on Climate Change and Indigenous Communities, Princeton University, 2018

Callison, Panelist on Why gender and colonialism matter in journalism startups, International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy, 2018

Callison and Young, “Stanley trial highlights colonialism of Canadian media,”The Conversation Canada, 2018

Young and Callison, “When gender, colonialism and technology matter in a journalism startup,” Journalism, 2017

Callison, “Climate Change Communication and Indigenous Publics” Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Science, 2017

Callison and Tindall, “Climate Change Communication in Canada” Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Science, 2017

Callison, “Beyond COP21: Collaborating With Indigenous People To Understand Climate Change And The Arctic,”in Ecologising MuseumsL’internationale, 2016

Callison and Hermida, “Dissent and Resonance: #Idlenomore as an emergent middle ground,” Canadian Journal of Communication, 2016

Callison and Hermida, “Idle No More in Canada: Dissent, Resonance, and a Middle Ground,” Civic Media Project, MIT Press, 2015

Callison, How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts, Duke University Press, 2014