From International to Domestic (and Back Again?)

This chapter offers my reflections on the changes that came with transitioning between subfields and types of institutions as an Early Career Instructor, and how I sought to navigate them. I began my appointment in the isolated tumult of the COVID-19 pandemic and learned to apply my background in critical international relations and settler coloniality to teaching primarily in Indigenous politics. This shift brought unanticipated expectations of teaching Indigenous-settler relations as a Canadian, not international, phenomenon. Arriving at a primarily white, undergraduate campus all learning virtually also heightened my sense of being out of place.