Nick Stanger, PhD

Dr. Nick Stanger specializes in Human Society in its Environment with a particular focus around reconciliation among Indigenous and non-Indigenous educators.  He has had the privilege of working with Indigenous educators around the world for more than 20 years examining the interaction among environmental and Indigenous ways of knowing.   Nick recently joined Southern Cross University's Faculty of Education in Australia from Canada and the United States where he worked as an associate professor of environmental education at the College of the Environment at Western Washington University. Visit www.nicholasstanger.ca to learn more.

Nick’s research uses an educationalist lens and participatory techniques to understand environmental sociology, ecological identity, transformative places, and Indigenous responses to climate change. He pursues projects that utilize his unique background as an ecologist, conservationist, educator, and knowledge mobilizer, and look for ways to support participants and provide nuance and complexity to pressing issues. He aims to understand, mobilize, and help create space for Indigenous communities to tell their stories of resurgence, cultural adaptation, and sovereignty all while helping find d pathways, protocol, and critical understandings amongst settler-colonial communities.

Favorite activity to do in the Salish Sea

Lead field schools that invite participants to dive deep into the literal and metaphoric waters of the estuarine habitats of the Salish Sea.