Sarah Moritz
Position
Sarah C. Moritz is a visiting Post-Doctoral fellow at the Centre for Global studies, a Banting (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow, and sociocultural anthropologist at Concordia University (Department of Geography, Environment and Planning), Montréal, Canada. Her doctoral research (McGill University, Department of Anthropology) examined the social relationality and Boasian anthropology of Interior Salish St‘át‘imc fisheries and water governance and associated notions of a ‘good life’ in the Fraser River Valley of today’s British Columbia. Her postdoctoral research titled “Honouring Salmon: Relational Ecologies across Salish Worlds in the Pacific Northwest,” investigates how Interior and Coast Salish peoples, especially matriarchs, have traditionally related to and interacted with wild salmon and their ongoing cultural legacy across freshwater and saltwater realms and combines community-based action anthropological, archival, c