Education

Ph.D., Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University, 2012
Dissertation Title: Redefining Pollution: Plastics in the Wild

M.F.A., Studio Art, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2006
Advanced Graduate Certificate in Cultural Studies, 2006

B.F.A. with Distinction, Mount Allison University, 2002

Appointments

• 2023-present: Professor, Department of Geography, Memorial University
• 2020-2023: Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Memorial University 
• 2020-2021: Distinguished Visiting Indigenous Faculty Research Fellow, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto
• 2018-2020: Associate Vice-President (Indigenous Research), Office of the Vice President Research, Memorial University (1-year position, renewed once)
• 2016-2020: Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Memorial University
• 2015-201: Chair of Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Memorial University (Elected, 2-year term)
• 2014-2016: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Memorial University
• 2013-2014: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute, Northeastern University
• 2012-2013: Postdoctoral Fellow, Intel Science and Technology Center in Social Computing (ISTC-S), New York University

Publications

See Writing page.

Grants (In Progress)

2023-2030: IndigeLab Network (IN):   Building research collectives through gendered Indigenous theories of change, SSHRC Partnership Grant. PI/Co-Director: Max Libioron. Co-Director: Stephanie Carroll (U Arizona). Co-Applicants: Catharyn Andersen (MUNL), Erica Hurley (MUNL), Eve Tuck (U Toronto), M. Murphy (U Toronto), Kristen Bos (U Toronto), Emily Simmonds (Woman’s College Hospital), Kelsey Leonard (U Waterloo), Cheryl Ellenwood (Washington State U), Rosie Alegado (U Hawaii), Andrea Gomez (UC Berkeley), Sarah Aarons (UC Davis), Dominique David-Chavez (Colorado State U), Kat Milligan-Myhre (U Connecticut), Mukhtara Yusuf (NYU), Katherine Crocker (U Puget Sound), Lydia Jennings (U Arizona). Partners: First Nations Information Governance Centre, Native BioData Consortium, ORCID Inc., The Carpentries, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, ArcticNet, University of Arizona, University of Toronto. Amount of Award: $2,500,000.

2021-2027: Nunalinni kamatsianik palastikkinik igitauKattatunik Nunatsiavummi / Community-Based Monitoring of plastic pollution in Nunatsiavut (CB-10). Northern Contaminants Program. CO-PIs: Max Liboiron and Liz Pijogge (Nunatsiavut Government). Amount of Award: $114,534 + $ 230,530.

2022-2027: Indigenous and decolonial quantitative methodologies. Discovery Horizons (NSERC). PI: Max Liboiron. Collaborators: Stephanie Russo Carrol (University of Arizona), Katherine Crocker (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Krystal Tsosie (NativeBio Consortium). Amount of award: $497,235.

2024-2026: Plastics and heavy metals in Nunatsiavut marine environments and foodways. Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, Marine Conservation Targets. Co-PIs: Max Liboiron and Liz Pijogge. Partner: Alex Bond, Museum of Natural History (UK). Amount of award: $563,690.

2023-2025: Inuit Hunters and fishers in plastic pollution monitoring in Nunatsiavut. Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, Regional Partnership and Research Program. Co-PIs: Max Liboiron and Liz Pijogge. $59,659

2022-2025: Plastics and heavy metals in Nunatsiavut foodways and environments. Canada-Inuit Nunangat-United Kingdom Arctic Research Programme (CINUK). Joint funding by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI), and National Research Council of Canada (NRC). Co-PIs: Liz Pijogge (Nunatsiavut Government), Alexander L. Bond (Natural History Museum, UK), Shan Zou (NRC), Zoltan Meister (NRC). Collaborators: Wouter-Jan Strietman (Wageningen Economic Research, The Hague). Amount of Award: $450,000CAD (held by Liboiron) and £543,000 (held by Bond).

2022-2024: Indigenous and decolonial quantitative methodologies (seed). SSHRC Explore via Memorial University. PI: Max Liboiron. Amount of award: $7,000.

2021-2024: Wild food movements and contaminants of concern in Imappivut. POLAR Canada. PI: Max Liboiron. Co-I: Tanya Brown (DFO). Collaborators: Liz Pijogge (Nunatsiavut Government), David Cote (DFO), Rodd Laing (Nunatsiavut Government). Amount of award: $294,600.

Awards

• 2023-2024: Dorothy Killam Fellowship Award. A national award to provide support ($70k/yr) “to [mid-career] scholars of exceptional ability by granting them time to pursue research projects of broad significance and widespread interest” by providing relief from teaching and administrative duties to focus on research
• 2024: Nomination, Paper of the Year, Cambridge Prisms. Cambridge University Press. For: Liboiron, Max, Riley Cotter. (2023). Review of participation of Indigenous peoples in plastics pollution governance. Cambridge Prisms: Plastics, e16: 1-24.
• 2022: The Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award, for Pollution is Colonialism
• 2022: Honorable Mention, Rachel Carson Prize, Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), for Pollution is Colonialism
• 2022: Marilyn Harvey Award to Recognize the Importance of Research Ethics,Office of the Vice-President Research, Memorial University
• 2021: College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada (RSC). A national system of multidisciplinary recognition for the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leadership. Members have the capacity to help Canada and the world address major challenges and seize new opportunities including those identified in emerging fields.
• 2021: Clay Morgan Award for Best Book in Environmental Political Theory, Western Political Science Association (WPSA), for Pollution is Colonialism
• 2021: Finalist, Victoria Davion Award for Intersectionality in Environmental Ethics, International Society for Environmental Ethics. The award honors scholars engaged in intersectional work that describes, considers, or responds to overlapping forms of exclusion, discrimination, or injustice
• 2020-2021: Distinguished Visiting Indigenous Faculty Research Fellow, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto. This position for a senior Indigenous scholar is by invitation only.
• 2019-present: Circle Holder, Science for the People. Begun in 1969, Science for the People is a USA-based group of activist-scientists committed to the practice of science to end oppression and violence. This award is one of two inaugural life-long fellowship positions for the society.
• 2018: Nature Inspiration Award (adult category), Canadian Museum of Nature/Musee Candien de la Nature. This award, “recognizes individuals and organizations that, through their work or specific projects, encourage Canadians to take an interest in natural history, create links with nature and contribute to its preservation.” Amount: $5,000 to be donated to organization of awardee’s choice.