Candis Callison

Background

About Candis Callison

Candis Callison is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Journalism, Media, and Public Discourse. She is a Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia. Candis is a co-author of Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities (Oxford U. Press, 2020), the author of How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke U. Press, 2014), and she leads a long term research project on Arctic and northern Journalism. In 2019, Candis was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was also the Pathy Distinguished Visitor in Canadian Studies at Princeton University in 2018-19. Prior to becoming academic, Candis worked as a journalist in television, radio, and the Internet. Candis is a cancer survivor and a member of the Tāłtān Nation, an Indigenous people located in what is now Northwestern British Columbia, Canada. She is a regular contributor to the podcast, Media Indigena.