works

written work (public)

written work (academic)

  • Sioui, M., Martin Hill, D., Jacobs, B., Nagabhatla, N., Duignan, S., Patel, R., & Pangowish, S. (2022). Haudenosaunee women’s water law: Reclaiming the sacred. In R. Sioui (Ed.), Indigenous Water and Drought Management in a Changing World. Elsevier Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-824538-5.00004-2.

  • Duignan, S., Moffat, C., & Martin Hill, D. (2022). Be like the running water: assessing gendered and age-based water insecurity experiences with Six Nations First Nation. Social Sci Med. 2022 Apr; 298:114864. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114864    

  • Duignan, S., Moffat, C., & Martin Hill, D. (2022). Using boundary objects to co-create community health and water knowledge with community-based medical anthropology and Indigenous Knowledge. Engaged Scholars Journal 6(1): 49-76. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v6i1.68178   

  • Duignan, S. (2019). Transforming society’s food choices. One Earth 1(3): 272-274. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2019.11.003

  • Duignan, S. (2016). Uncovering the social child in mortuary contexts. Vis-á-vis: Explorations in Anthropology 13(1): 78-96. University of Toronto.

selected press & interviews

selected guest lectures & speaking

  • Nourish: Connecting through Dumplings” for DesignTO Event with Mason Studios

  • “Social Justice, Diversity, Inclusion and Activism within Social Sciences Podcasts” for Modern Languages Association Conference/Humanities Podcast Symposium, Oct 2021

  • “Six Nations Water and Food Security in an Era of Climate Change” for McMaster Public Health Conference, Nov 2020 (online)

  • “Testing the waters: community-led research on water security and holistic health with Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation” for Global Water Futures Conference, May 2020 (online)

  • “Social Justice” for Global Water Futures Women and Water Lecture Series, Mar 2020 (online)

  • “Water is our medicine—preliminary results of water quality testing and impact on maternal health, Six Nations” for Indigenous Community Health and Research Conference, Jan 2020

  • “Intersections of land, water, and food: preliminary results of a co-created survey on water and food security with Six Nations of the Grand River” for American Anthropological Association Conference, Nov 2019

  • “A discussion on the future of food: A DIG idea” Public talk in Guelph, Aug 2019

  • “Food and Podcasting” for the Canadian Association for Food Studies, June 2019

  • “Using podcasts for digital food activism” for Society for Applied Anthropology Conference, Mar 2019

  • “Podcasting and adapting public anthropologist for the 21st century” for the American Anthropological Association Conference, Oct 2018

awards & recognitions

  • 2024: Best Event for DesignTO 2024

  • 2021: Canadian Podcast Award for Outstanding Science Series

  • 2020: TOWebfest Podcast Nominee

  • 2019: Parks Canada CEO Award of Excellence: Preserve, Protect, and Commemorate

  • 2019: Sherman Centre Digital Scholarship Fellow, McMaster University

  • 2019: Canadian Podcast Award for Science and Medicine

  • 2017: Shelley R. Saunders Thesis Research Grant

  • 2015: University of Manitoba Emerging Leaders Award

  • 2014: Anthony Arnhold Graduate Fellowship in Anthropology

  • 2011: Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award