Candis Callison is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Journalism, Media, and Public Discourse, and a Professor jointly appointed in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. She is the author of How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke University Press, 2014), and the co-author of Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Candis is a member of the Tahltan (Tāłtān) Nation, located in what is now Northwestern British Columbia. She is a regular contributor on the podcast, Media Indigena. She is also a founding board member of Tu’dese’cho Wholistic Indigenous Leadership Development Society (T-WILD), the first Tāłtān non-government organization, created to provide Tāłtān people with land-based learning, leadership development, and cultural programming.

Candis holds a Ph.D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, and a Master of Science in Comparative Media Studies  from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to her academic work, Candis produced, wrote, and reported for television, the Internet, and radio in Canada and the United States.

For a list of courses being taught by Dr. Callison, please visit the School of Journalism.

Callison, “Rethinking Our Histories and Relations with Climate Change,” in Climate, Science and Society: A Primer, edited By Zeke Baker, Tamar Law, Mark Vardy, and Stephen Zehr, Routledge, 2024.

Marino, E.K., K. Maxwell, E. Eisenhauer, A. Zycherman, C. Callison, E. Fussell, M.D. Hendricks, F.H. Jacobs, A. Jerolleman, A.K. Jorgenson, E.M. Markowitz, S.T. Marquart-Pyatt, M. Schutten, R.L. Shwom, and K. Whyte, 2023: Ch. 20. “Social systems and justice.” In: Fifth National Climate Assessment. Crimmins, A.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, B.C. Stewart, and T.K. Maycock, Eds. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA.

Callison, “Journalism in Canada’s Northern Territories: Digital Media, Civic Spaces, Indigenous Publics,” in Risky Futures: Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North, edited by Olga Ulturgasheva and Barbara Bodenhorn, Berghan Books, 2022

Callison, “Journalism, Indigenous Knowing, and Climate Futures (and Pasts)” in Negotiating Rifts of Time: Journalism and Climate Change, edited by Henrik Bødker and Hanna E. Morris, Routledge, 2022

Callison, “Refusing more empire: utility, colonialism, and Indigenous knowing,” Climatic Change, 2021

Callison, “What COVID-19 and climate change teach us about ‘syndemics,’” Policy Options, 2021

Callison and Young, “Attending to The Reckoning and the Voiceless: Multiple Truths, Systems Approaches to Journalism,” Handbook of Global Media Ethics, Springer, 2021

Young and Callison, “Data Journalism: In Whose Interests?,” The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice, edited by Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray, Amsterdam University Press, 2021

Callison, “Calling it a crisis isn’t enough (if it ever was),” Nieman Lab Predictions, 2020

Callison, “The 12 year window: Locating crisis, climate change, and colonialism,” Isis, 2020

Callison and Young, “It’s time for a new approach to journalism,” Toronto Star, 2020

Callison and Young, Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities, Oxford University Press, 2020

Callison, “Communal matters and scientific facts: Making sense of climate change” in Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: A Casebook, edited by Henry Jenkins, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, and Sangita Shresthova, NYU Press, 2020

Callison, “Learn from Indigenous Journalists on Covering Climate Change,”Nieman Lab Predictions, 2019

Callison and Young, “Stanley trial highlights colonialism of Canadian media,”The Conversation Canada, 2018

Young and Callison, “When gender, colonialism and technology matter in a journalism startup,” Journalism, 2017

Callison, “Climate Change Communication and Indigenous Publics” Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Science, 2017

Callison and Tindall, “Climate Change Communication in Canada” Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Science, 2017

Callison, “Beyond COP21: Collaborating With Indigenous People To Understand Climate Change And The Arctic,”in Ecologising Museums, L’internationale, 2016

Callison and Hermida, “Dissent and Resonance: #Idlenomore as an emergent middle ground,” Canadian Journal of Communication, 2016

Callison, How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts, Duke University Press, 2014