Şükran Tipi

Şükran Tipi holds a Masters degree in Linguistics (French/German) and arrived in Quebec in 2008 to work as a researcher for the Counsel of the Innu First Nation of Mashteuiatsch until 2011, when she became the Counsel’s linguistic consultant until 2014.  Currently, she is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at Laval University (under the co-direction of Michelle Daveluy and Frédéric Laugrand) and leads a collaborative research project funded by the CRSH (2013-2016) in partnership with the Mashteuiatsh community.  Using an intergenerational perspective, this project explores the link between language and territory through the analysis of different modes of expressing connections between ancestral territories utilized by three generations of Pekuakamiulnuatsh (Innus from Lac Saint-Jean).  Beyond this doctoral research, Sükran’s research interests are situated within native toponymy, linguistic anthropology, the revitalization of native languages, and the ethics of research collaboration with the First Nations.