Jacqueline Quinless

Associate Faculty at the Centre for Indigenous Research and Community-led Engagement (CIRCLE); Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria

Dr. Jacqueline M. Quinless lives on the Traditional Territory of the Lekwungen speaking peoples on Vancouver Island with her family and is a biracial person of mixed European ancestry and Indian ethnicity (Secunderbad and Hyderabad India). She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, Canada. She has worked extensively in Indigenous communities using gender-based analysis frameworks in the context of the socio-economic impacts of natural resource development on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous peoples. She is award winning Public Sociologist recognized by the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) and the Angus Reid Foundation for her community-based research in the advancement of Indigenous welfare in Canada. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology and an associate faculty at the Centre for Indigenous Research and Community-led Engagement (CIRCLE) at the University of Victoria. She is also the author of Decolonizing Data (University of Toronto Press, February 15, 2022).