Stacie Swain

Stacie Swain is a CFGS graduate student fellow and a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, where she has completed the Indigenous Nationhood Graduate Certificate program.

She is a settler of Ukrainian-British descent who was raised in Treaty Six territory, south of Edmonton. Stacie’s research interests center on bringing the critical study of religion into conversation with abolitionist and Indigenous feminist theories to understand religion as a technology of statecraft, critique Canadian settler colonialism, and reorient towards Indigenous relationalities.

Stacie’s recent work appears in Democratic Multiplicity: Perceiving, Enacting, and Integrating Democratic Diversity (Cambridge 2022), Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes (Equinox 2022), and The End of Religion: Feminist Reappraisals of the State (Routledge 2021). This summer and fall she is focusing on completing her dissertation as she prepares to take up a position as Assistant Professor in Religious Studies and Gender Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador at the end of the year.