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Danika Jorgensen Skakum
Research Assistant, Political Science
University of Alberta
Danika Jorgensen-Skakum (MA) (she/her) is a queer and Métis PhD student in the department of Political Science at the University of Alberta.
Her research interests include Indigenous relations and relationality, digital networks, infrastructure studies, posthumanism, material feminisms, critical disability studies, and (in)finitude. (Also muskrats.) She was the research coordinator for the interdisciplinary research-creation projects Just Powers (University of Alberta) and Stuttering Commons (University of Alberta). Her work has been featured in The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals (2024) and American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism (2018).