Available to supervise from September 2025. Prof. Tracey Lindberg is interested in supervising LLM and PhD students who work with/on Indigenous laws and legal orders; InterNATIONal law; Indigenous law, oral traditions and literatures; Indigeneity, genders, and legal traditions; Indigenous legal societies, and Indigenous women.
Tracey Lindberg
Professor
Accepting graduate students
- Contact:
- tlindberg@uvic.ca
- Credentials:
- University of Saskatchewan, Harvard Law School (LLM) University of Ottawa (PhD)
Biography
Professor Tracey Lindberg hails from the As’in’î’wa’chî Ni’yaw (Kelly Lake Cree Nation) and grew up in small cities and towns in Northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. She studied law at the University of Saskatchewan, Harvard Law School (LLM) and the University of Ottawa (PhD).
She has taught the Field School LAW 450, LAW 397 Indigenous Legal Theory, LAW 112I Enhancement, LAW 110 Legal Writing and Research Indigenous Content, and LAW 105I: Transsystemic Contracts.
Dr. Lindberg publishes legal academic articles and fiction. Her academic work Critical Indigenous Legal Theory won the University of Ottawa’s Gold Medal and the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award. Tracey Lindberg’s work with Elder Maria Campbell and Priscilla Campeau “Indigenous Women and Sexual Assault in Canada” (in Elizabeth Sheehy ed. Ch. 5, Sexual Assault in Canada (Ottawa: U Ottawa, 2017) represents the legal thinking and pedagogy in which she is most interested and engaged.
Dr. Lindberg has co-authored books on law [Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies (Oxford, 2010) ] with authors Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, and Robert Miller and a book on Indigenous literature icon Daniel David Moses (Guernica, 2015) with David Brundage.
Her best-selling novel Birdie is widely read and used to teach courses worldwide. Birdie was a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Award and the 2016 edition of CBC's Canada Reads and is currently in its fourteenth reprint. The novel was also long-listed for the 2017 Dublin International Literary Prize, the OLA Evergreen Award and was a nominee for the 2016 Alberta Literary Awards. Dr. Lindberg was a juror for the 2017 Rogers Trust Fiction prize. Her most recent novel, The Cree Word for Love: Sakihitowin (2025) is writing about embodied self-determination.
Professor Lindberg is interested in Niyaw / Cree law, Indigenous law and literature, Indigenous legal theory, the rejuvenation and application of Indigenous laws and Indigenous women’s societies, laws and legal orders.
In 2018, Dr. Lindberg was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
Education
- University of Saskatchewan (LLB)
- Harvard Law School (LLM)
- University of Ottawa (PhD)