IONAH (M. ELAINE) SCULLY
Syracuse University
Syracuse University
School of Education
Cultural Foundations of Education |
EDUCATION
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
RESEARCH
Two Spirit/Indigequeer critique, public scholarship, storytelling, Indigenous methodologies, land-based and decolonizing pedagogies, and Intergroup Dialogue, indigenizing autoethnography, land relationality in building communities of care and coalitions.
Dissertation titled Nehiyaw Two Spirit Creation Stories: Re-mapping Home, Desire, and Indigenous Education through the Body uses Nehiyaw (Cree) specific methodologies of wahkotowin (accountable relationality), miskâsowin (inward reflection and integral knowing, and oral storytelling traditions to imagine Cree creation stories through the experiences of 2SLGBTQIA+ Cree people (2S). Using community-based participatory action research (CB-PAR) through an Indigenized framework of storytelling talking circles, creation stories are critically examined and re-narrated by 2S collaborative researchers to a) identify teachings that emerge from 2S knowledges and histories; b) uncover 2S teachings taken by colonial violences such as residential/boarding schools; and c) offer strategies for other Indigenous communities to identify and center 2S stories, histories, and knowledges in decolonizing and Indigenizing education.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
SELECTED AWARDS
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
OTHER EXPERIENCE
SERVICE
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- School of Education
PhD Candidate, Cultural Foundations of Education (Expected Completion: Dec 2024) - College of Arts and Sciences, Women’s and Gender Studies
Certificate of Advanced Study, August 2020 - Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Conflict Resolution
Certificate of Advanced Study, August 2017
- Bachelor of Arts, December 2003
RESEARCH
Two Spirit/Indigequeer critique, public scholarship, storytelling, Indigenous methodologies, land-based and decolonizing pedagogies, and Intergroup Dialogue, indigenizing autoethnography, land relationality in building communities of care and coalitions.
Dissertation titled Nehiyaw Two Spirit Creation Stories: Re-mapping Home, Desire, and Indigenous Education through the Body uses Nehiyaw (Cree) specific methodologies of wahkotowin (accountable relationality), miskâsowin (inward reflection and integral knowing, and oral storytelling traditions to imagine Cree creation stories through the experiences of 2SLGBTQIA+ Cree people (2S). Using community-based participatory action research (CB-PAR) through an Indigenized framework of storytelling talking circles, creation stories are critically examined and re-narrated by 2S collaborative researchers to a) identify teachings that emerge from 2S knowledges and histories; b) uncover 2S teachings taken by colonial violences such as residential/boarding schools; and c) offer strategies for other Indigenous communities to identify and center 2S stories, histories, and knowledges in decolonizing and Indigenizing education.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Invited: Scully, I.M.E. (2021). Shapeshifting Power: Indigenous Teachings of Trickster Consciousness and Relational Accountability for Building Communities of Care. To be published in Seneca Falls Dialogue Journal, Vol. 4.
- Scully, I.M.E. & D. Romo (2022). Embracing Community, Disrupting Isolation: The Importance of Relationships and Land in Antiracist Teacher Education. In G. Martinez-Alba, J. Ruan & A. Hersi (Eds), Antiracist teacher education: theory and practice. Rowman & Littlefield.
SELECTED AWARDS
- Joan Lukes Rothenberg Graduate Service Award (2020, 2022).
- New York Public Humanities Grant Award Recipient (2021).
- Toni Taverone Graduate Paper Prize, Women’s & Gender Studies, Syracuse University (2021).
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University (2021).
- Publicly Active Graduate Education Fellow, Imagining America (2019-2020).
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
- Invited: Scully, I.M.E. & Romo, D. (2022, Feb) “History, (In)Equity, and Complicity: Publicly Engaged Scholarship and Our Communities.” Imagining America webinar [online].
- Invited: Scully, I.M.E. (2020, Apr). “What’s Land Got to Do With It? What's Land Got to Do with It? Nehiyaw (Cree) Stories of Queer Kinship in Dialogues Across Difference.” Keynote and plenary session at New York Six Spectrum Conference, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY [canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic].
- Scully, I.M.E. (2022, Nov). “Learning the Land’s Love Language: Two Spirit Teachings to Un-settle Gender, Sexuality, and Occupation.” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
- Scully, I.M.E. (2022, Oct). “Learning the Land's Love Language: Indigenous Body-Mind Knowing to Learn from & Build Relationships with the Land.” Imagining America’s National Gathering, New Orleans, LA.
- Scully, I.M.E. (2021, Jul). “Love Notes with the Land: Two Spirit Stories of Other-than-Human Relationships.” (2021). American Indian Workshop Annual Conference [online].
- Scully, I.M.E. (2021, Jun). “Love Notes with the Land: Toward an Indigequeer Land Pedagogy in Dialogues Across Difference.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Conference [online].
- Scully, I.M.E. (2021, Jun). “Dialogue with the Land, Dialogue with Each Other: Indigenous Teachings for Healing and Decolonial Futures.” Cultivating Black and Native Futures in Education Conference, Arizona State University [online].
- Scully, I.M.E. (2020, Nov). “Indigequeering Land Pedagogy: Wesakecahk (Trickster) Consciousness in Dialogues Across Difference.” Seneca Falls Dialogue Conference [online].
- Scully, I.M.E. (2020, Jun). “Gender Violence and the Carceral-Settler State: Wesakecahk Teachings in Decolonial and Abolitionist Coalitions.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada and Sexuality Studies Association Conference, London, ON, Canada [both conferences canceled due to pandemic].
- Scully, I.M.E. (2019, Oct). “What’s Land Got To Do With It: (Re)storying Community with Other-Than-Humans.” Imagining America Annual Gathering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Certificate of University Teaching, Syracuse University (2021)
- Syracuse University
- Teaching Assistant – School of Education, The American School (2019-2021)
- Guest Lecturer – School of Education, Native Knowledges/Identity & Learning (2021-Present)
- Independent Study Instructor – School of Education, Decolonizing Education (2021)
- Intergroup Dialogue Facilitator – School of Education (2020-2022)
- Guest Instructor – College of Arts & Sciences, Women’s and Gender Studies (2019)
- Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada
- Guest Instructor – Indigenous Peoples’ Health (2021)
OTHER EXPERIENCE
- New York Public Humanities – Invited Grant Reviewer (2022)
- Syracuse University – School of Education Intergroup Dialogue Research Assistant (2020-2022)
- Imagining America, University of California Davis – Publicly Active Graduate Education Fellowship Co-Director (2021-2022)
SERVICE
- Youth Education Coordinator (2022). Kelly Lake Cree Nation Culture Camp. AB, Canada.
- Podcast Guest (2022). “Queer Intersections, A podcast on supporting LGBTQ+ youth: Indigenous and Native American LGBTQ youth.” Western Educational Equity Assistance Center. Denver, CO.
- Panel Facilitator (2021). American Indian Workshop Annual Conference [online].
- Native Student Program Mentor (2019-Present). Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
Dr. Gretchen Lopez
Tenured Faculty – Cultural Foundations of Education (Syracuse University)
Dr. Danika Medak Saltzman
Faculty – Women’s and Gender Studies (Syracuse University)
Dr. Himika Bhattacharya
Tenured Faculty – Women’s and Gender Studies (Syracuse University)
Dr. Mario Rios Perez
Tenured Faculty – Cultural Foundations of Education (Syracuse University)
Tenured Faculty – Cultural Foundations of Education (Syracuse University)
Dr. Danika Medak Saltzman
Faculty – Women’s and Gender Studies (Syracuse University)
Dr. Himika Bhattacharya
Tenured Faculty – Women’s and Gender Studies (Syracuse University)
Dr. Mario Rios Perez
Tenured Faculty – Cultural Foundations of Education (Syracuse University)