Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox
Adjunct Research Professor
Dr. Irlbacher-Fox is the Principal Investigator of the Modern Treaties Implementation Research Project, a SSHRC Partnership Grant between the Land Claim Agreements Coalition and 杏吧原创 University (2018-2025), with a national office hosted by the T艂寞ch谦 Government.
An independent academic and consultant based in Yellowknife, NT, Dr. Irlbacher-Fox has thirty years of experience working for Indigenous peoples鈥 organizations in the Northwest Territories, Canada on political and community development, including Treaty negotiations and implementation, and the development of public governance institutions in the NWT. For almost twenty years she was on the negotiating team of the De虂li台ne台 Self Government Agreement, and for the past decade has been a negotiator for the community of Colville Lake鈥檚 Self Government Agreement.
She was the Implementation Director responsible for overseeing technical aspects of setting up the De虂li台ne台 Got鈥檌台ne台 Government, combining the De虂li台ne台 First Nation, Land Corporation and municipality with new self government authorities. She continues to provide several NWT Indigenous governments with governance advisory services related to self government negotiations and land claim implementation.
Dr. Irlbacher-Fox is the founding Scientific Director of Hot谋矛 ts’eeda, the NWT SPOR SUPPORT Unit, a CIHR-funded health research initiative hosted by the T艂寞ch谦 Government and governed by several NWT Indigenous governments, and continues as the Scientific Lead for the organization.
Dr. Irlbacher-Fox is the author of Finding Dahshaa: Self Government, Social Suffering, and Aboriginal Policy in Canada (UBC, 2009), nominated by both the Canadian Political Science Association and the Canadian History Association for book awards.