Karine Duhamel

Dr. Karine Duhamel is First Nations and Métis from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Dr. Duhamel was formerly Adjunct Professor at the University of Winnipeg teaching Indigenous histories focused on boarding schools, as well as Director of Research for Jerch Law Corporation, conducting research related to a number of Indigenous rights cases.

In 2016, Dr. Duhamel joined the Canadian Museum for Human Rights as a curator, working collaboratively with Indigenous individuals and communities to share the messages and the stories that most mattered to them. Employing new methodologies in collaborative curation and exhibition design, Dr. Duhamel’s work has resulted in new and important museum relationships and practices with Indigenous communities and individuals based in truth and reconciliation.

Most recently, Dr. Duhamel took a leave of absence from the museum to work as Director of Research for the historic National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Upon the Inquiry’s completion of its mandate, she returned to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

Dr. Duhamel is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Council of Museums, a Board member for Facing History and Ourselves and Co-Chair of the Expert Group on Indigenous Matters for the International Council of Archives.