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.
The Emic and the Etic and Ahnishinahbayeshshikaywin in Lac Seul, 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:
​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/.
More in press:
Location: Lac Seul First Nation, Ontario, Canada
Funding status: Additional funding required
Funding so far: Wenner Gren Engaged Grant, In Kind Funding obtained
Who is the 'Other'? Brazil's Indigenous meet Darwin
Status: Analysis in progress
Team: 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, The Explorers Club
Funding status: Completed fieldwork
Fieldwork required: Done
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.