Current Research
I am currently working on several projects. I am the main researcher for the project in Brazil and the project in Lac Seul, Ontario, Canada. I am also a collaborator with several researchers and these are listed below with the publications which are already in the public domain.
​One project, two worldviews: reconciling methodologies to learn how animism functions in the Lac Seul First Nation, Northwestern Ontario, Canada.
Status: Ongoing.
Team: George Kenny, Alicia Colson PhD, Mike Makwa Auksi, Susannah Cass PhD and John Bonnett PhD.
Advisors: Adar Charlton PhD and Mary McPherson
Publications so far, more coming:
​Colson, Alicia J. M., and George ‘Choch’ Kenny. 2024. ‘Colorizing Historical Photographs: Ethical Dilemmas of a New Digital Technique’. First American Art Magazine 42 (Spring): 102–4.​
​Colson, Alicia J. M., Michael Makwa Auksi, and George ‘Choch’ Kenny. 2024. ‘On the Tracks to Translating Indigenous Knowledge’. Sapiens, June 25. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/on-the-tracks-to-translating-indigenous-knowledge/.
Location: Lac Seul First Nation, Ontario, Canada
Funding status: Additional funding required
Funding so far: Wenner Gren Foundation (Engaged Grant), In Kind Funding obtained
Who is the 'Other'? Brazil's Indigenous meet Darwin
Status: Analysis in progress
Sole Investigator: Alicia Colson
Publications: In progress
Location: Salvador, Baia, and Rio de Janeiro and on down the coast on the Oosteshielde (Dutch Schooner) as part of Darwin200 as an EC50 (Class of 2022), The Explorers Club
Funding status: Completed fieldwork
Fieldwork required: Done
Publications: In progress
Collaborations with various researchers globally
Currently involved with several researchers with on different projects with publications being written.
1) Eduard-Claudiu Gloss PhD, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
Publications:
​Colson, Alicia J. M., and Eduard-Claudiu Gloss. 2024. ‘The Algorithmic Art: Exploring the Intersection of Human Imagination and AI Technology’. Ekphrasis (2067-631X) 32 (2): 48–72. https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.32.3.
2) Fabien Schultz PhD, Head of the Ethnopharmacology and Zoopharmacognosy at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Germany.
Publications: Forthcoming.