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Darren Zanussi

PhD Student

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Cultural Studies

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Darren Zanussi is a settler scholar from Parry Sound, Ontario, located in the Robinson-Huron Treaty Territory. His research interests include Indigenous-settler relations, settler colonialism, Canadian nationalism, sports studies, and the critical examination of reconciliation. He is a member of the . 

Darren completed his M.A. at Carleton University鈥檚 School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies. His Major Research Paper titled 鈥淧odcasts as pedagogy: irreconcilable Indigeneity and conciliation through digital spaces鈥 was supervised by Doctor Kahente Horn-Miller and supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Ontario Graduate Scholarships. 

Darren鈥檚 Doctoral research is supported by a CGS-D scholarship and examines how rural settler-Ontarians in close proximity to First Nations conceive of reconciliation. He is conducting an ethnographic study of 鈥渂eer league鈥 hockey in Lennox and Addington County to examine the relationships between Canadian nationalism, hockey, and reconciliation based on participants鈥 sense of land, home, and belonging.