Biography
Positions
Education
From 2022-2025, Dr. Nagy and Dr. Nancy Stevens have conducted research on Indigenous-specific supports for sexual assault survivors.
From 2013-2020, Dr. Nagy also served as Co-Director and Principle Investigator for the SSHRC-funded Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance on Human Trafficking (NORAHT). A university-community research partnership, NORAHT conducted participatory action research using Indigenous, decolonial, and feminist methodologies in order to identify and redress gaps and barriers to regional services for people experiencing violence, exploitation and abuse in the sex industry.
From 2009 to 2015, Dr. Nagy was able to conduct participant-observation research at most of the national events of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Her subsequent writing has addressed paths to settler decolonization, settler witnessing, transformative justice, and the scopes and bounds of transitional justice.
Publications
Select Publications (Last 5 years)
Peer reviewed journal articles
Nagy, Rosemary, Rebecca Timms, Gina Snooks, Donna Debassige, Kathleen Jodouin, Brenda Quenneville and Lanyan Chen, “Temporal Discrimination and the Entry-to-Exit Imperative in Canadian Anti-Human Trafficking,” (accepted, Feminist Studies).
Gina Snooks, Rosemary Nagy, et al. “Blending Feminist, Indigenous, and Participatory Action Research Methodologies: Critical Reflections from the Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance on Human Trafficking,” Feminist Formations 2021, 33(2): 160-184.
“Transformative Justice in a Settler Colonial Transition: Implementing UNDRIP in Canada,” International Journal of Human Rights (2021): 1-26, DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2021.1910809
“Settler Witnessing at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada,” Human Rights Review 21 (2020): 219–241.
Rosemary Nagy, Gina Snooks, Brenda Quenneville, Kathleen Jodouin, Rebecca Timms, Donna Debassige and Lanyan Chen. “Human Trafficking in Northeastern Ontario: Collaborative Responses”. First Peoples Child & Family Review 15, 1 (2020) :80-104. https://fpcfr.com/index.php/FPCFR/article/view/405.
Chapters in edited books
“Settler Researchers: From a Place of Not Knowing,” in David. B. MacDonald and Emily Grafton, eds., Settler Colonialism in Canada: Perspectives, Comparisons, Cases (University of Regina Press: 2025).
“Disentangling Victimhood in Canadian Anti-Human Trafficking: A Transformative Justice Response,” in Jennifer Brant and D. Memee Lavell-Harvard, eds., Rematriating Justice: Honouring the Lives of our Sisters (Demeter Press: 2024).
“Transitional Justice, Trauma and Healing: Indigenous Residential Schools in Canada,” in REDRESS: Ireland and Transitional Justice, ed. Katherine O’Donnell, Maeve O’Rourke, and James M. Smith (University College Dublin, 2022).
Conference presentations
Nancy Stevens and Rosemary Nagy, “Indigenous-Specific Needs in Community Sexual Assault Services: Spirituality, Culture and Connection,” presentation at Spirituality in Social Work Conference, Calgary, June 21, 2025.
“Indigenous Peoples and Truth Commissions,” Law and Society Association annual meeting, Chicago (hybrid), May 23, 2025.
Rosemary Nagy, Rebecca Timms, Gina Snooks, Donna Debassige, Kathleen Jodouin, Brenda Quenneville, Lanyan Chen, “Temporal Discrimination and the Entry-to-Exit Imperative in Canadian Anti-Human Trafficking,” presented at Law and Society Association, Friday, June 6, 2024, Denver.
“Roundtable: New Directions in Truth Commission Research,” International Studies Association, Friday, March 17, 2023, 10:30-12:15, Montreal.
Recent Courses Taught
GEND 1007 Sex, Work, Borders
GEND 2147 Forced Migration
GEND 2187 International Human Rights
GEND 2057 Special Topics: Social Justice Toolkits
GEND 2057 Special Topics: Human Rights in a Digital Age
GEND 3207 The United Nations and Responsibility to Protect
GEND 3216 Testimony and Witness
GEND 3227 Justice After Atrocity