Darren Zanussi

Darren Zanussi is a settler scholar from Parry Sound, Ontario, located in the Robinson-Huron Treaty Territory. His research interests include Indigenous-settler relations, settler colonialism, Canadian nationalism, sports studies, and the critical examination of reconciliation. He is a member of the Indigenous Hockey Research Network. 

Darren completed his M.A. at Carleton University’s School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies. His Major Research Paper titled “Podcasts as pedagogy: irreconcilable Indigeneity and conciliation through digital spaces” was supervised by Doctor Kahente Horn-Miller and supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Ontario Graduate Scholarships. 

Darren’s Doctoral research is supported by a CGS-D scholarship and examines how rural settler-Ontarians in close proximity to First Nations conceive of reconciliation. He is conducting an ethnographic study of “beer league” hockey in Lennox and Addington County to examine the relationships between Canadian nationalism, hockey, and reconciliation based on participants’ sense of land, home, and belonging.