Eva Mackey

Biography

Eva Mackey completed an Honours BA in Anthropology, Women’s Studies, and Spanish at the University of Toronto in 1989 as a mature student. She then went to the UK on a Commonwealth Scholarship to study social anthropology at the University of Sussex. She received an MA in 1990 and a D.Phil in 1996. Her MA thesis examined the conflict about the “Into the Heart of Africa” exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1999. Her doctoral thesis examined cultural pluralism and national identity in Canada. After completing her doctorate, she took up a postdoctoral fellowship in Australia, studying the rise of the new right and conflict over aboriginal rights. She then had a post-doctoral fellowship in the York University Department of Sociology. She became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University in 2001, and acted as the Graduate Director for several years until coming to Carleton in 2007. Eva has published numerous book chapters and journal articles on issues concerning nationalism, identity, whiteness, multiculturalism, cultural politics, and aboriginal land rights in Canada and Australia.

Research Interest

My research and teaching interests include the politics of culture, identity, nation, race, rights, representation, and history within the context of colonial /national/ global processes. My key research questions concern the limits and possibilities of modernity and liberalism regarding cultural difference and governance. Specific projects have examined multiculturalism, national identity and the politics of culture in Canada; contests about race and representation in Canada; and Aboriginal rights “backlash” and decolonization in settler nations.