CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Around the Kitchen Table: Métis Aunties Scholarship
Sequel (working title)
Editors
Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides
Dear Contributors:
You are invited to submit an expression of interest for consideration in an upcoming peer-reviewed collection, Around the Kitchen Table: Métis Aunties Scholarship Sequel. In a recent survey of the cannon of Indigenous studies, specifically looking through a Métis lens, it became apparent that there is a significant need for current Métis research to be lifted up. Métis women have long held prominent roles in building our nation; too often, this work has gone undocumented within the literature. As such, we aim to celebrate the contributions Métis women are making to academia in their respective disciplines.
Métis female academics contributions to their fields are awe-inspiring. In my work as the Métis Inclusion coordinator, my role is to educate the broader community of the presence of Métis in our campus community. Throughout that work, there has been a constant presence of strong Métis women: through the community, Métis politics, institutional leadership, and academic literature.
In this collection, we hope to draw together the work of Métis academics in a variety of disciplines. Together, we will lift up our contributions through honest and impassioned dialogue around existing barriers and emergent breakthroughs in our academic and/or community-based work. By continuing to share our experiences as a collective the magnitude of our efforts can give strength to our community, inspire those around us in all the forms that Métis scholarship takes and move the learning forward with shared wisdom.
Contributions
While we, ourselves, are Métis academics studying and working in academic institutions, we are interested in contributions from a wide variety of disciplines, sources, and theoretical framings. We are open to articles written from critical, relational, qualitative, narrative, creative, or arts-based approaches. Please feel free to share your research and learning in ways that reflect your passion, personal style, and engagement with Métis studies in all of its manifestations.
Audience
Educators—students, professors, administrators, activists—studying and working in circles of Métis studies and a variety of disciplines will find this a valuable resource for exploring and interpreting multiple definitions, instantiations, and perspectives. Around the Kitchen Table: Métis Aunties Scholarship Sequel maybe a desirable course text in the areas of Métis Studies, Indigenous education, Indigenous studies, social justice, diversity, history, and political sciences.
Manuscript Potentialities
We hope that the collection will reflect the diversity of scholarly research created by Métis scholars as it is lived, taught, considered, conceptualized, disseminated, re-imagined, reflected upon, and expanded. Manuscripts may take the form of poetry, stories, art, essay, conversations, and beyond.
Manuscript Length
Submissions should be 500 - 5000 words in length (including references and notes).
Publication Information
Around the Kitchen Table: Métis Aunties Scholarship Sequel will be submitted to Potential Publishers for consideration.
Initial Submissions
Expression of interest, including a working title, 150-word description/abstract, and contact information for all collaborators/authors (email, phone, university or other affiliation, and mailing address): due October 15th, 2026. Expressions of interest proposals may be submitted in a variety of lengths, styles, and forms. Please send your proposals by email to Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides at
Contributors
We invite Métis women—individuals, duos, and groups—who exist in academic and community spaces and engage in research capacities to share their work, knowledge, experiences, stories, insights, challenges, and creative expressions.
Each author/creator must provide a 100-word Biography. Indicate the author(s) full name, current position, and general interests. If you are within a year of a prestigious award or funding, feel free to mention it. As well as a Community connection statement 200-word Métis community connection statement for the Editors to understand your kinship ties and responsibilities to the Métis Nation (which might include family lines, community relationships, connections to place, citizenship, etc.).
Working Trajectory (subject to change)
Expression of Interest due October 15, 2026
Acceptance in Principle November 15, 2026
Drafts from Contributors due May 20, 2027
Review by volume editors back to contributors: June, 2027
Delivery for Revisions May, 2021
MS to UMP: October 15, 2027
Editors
Dr. Laura Forsythe Ph.D (she/they) is a Métis scholar at the University of Winnipeg in the Faculty of Education and co-founder of the Métis Thinkers Network Non-profit Organization. Forsythe’s research focus is Métis-specific contributions to the academy, Métis inclusion efforts, and educational sovereignty. Forsythe’s contributions include seven edited collections, numerous peer-reviewed publications, and the co-creation of two Indigenous academic journals. She is a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation. Her kinship ties include the Huppe, Ward, Berard, Morin, Lavallee, and Cyr lines. Her ancestors worked for the Northwest and Hudson’s Bay Companies, fought in the Victory of Frog Plain, and owned Lot 31, the site of a contemporary Métis space called Pakan Town.
Jennifer Markides, Ph.D., is a citizen of the Otipemisiwak Métis Government (formerly Métis Nation of Alberta), SSHRC Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Youth Well-Being and Education, and Associate Professor in both the Werklund School of Education and Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary. Her community-based research focuses on the dreams, interests, needs, and holistic wellbeing of Indigenous youth. Working together, the partnerships respond to the immediate goals and long-term visions of Indigenous communities. Her ancestral Métis kin are the McKay, Favel, Ballenden/Ballendine, Linklater, and McDermott/MacDermott families, with Scrip records and connections to Red River. She honours her ongoing commitments of learning, relationship-building, and service to Métis people, communities, and organizations through her academic work and personal life.
Forsythe and Markides have successfully published six peer-reviewed edited collections together in the past eight years: Metis Methodologies (2026) with Fernwood Publishing; Métis Coming Together (2025) with Peter Lang; Around the Kitchen Table (2024) with UMP; Walking Together in Indigenous Research (2020) with DIO Press; Research Journeys in/to Multiple Ways of Knowing (2019) with DIO Press; and Looking Back and Living Forward: Indigenous Research Rising Up (2018) with Brill | Sense.