Bio
Matthew Gravlin is a PhD Candidate and Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Born and educated in Saskatoon - Treaty Six Territory and Homeland of the Métis Nation - Matthew is a recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) 2024 Doctoral Scholarship. His doctoral research employs ethnographic and community-engaged methods to examine Métis perceptions of Land Back, drawing out themes such as hope, time, and possession. Matthew is interested in how Métis political aspirations take shape amidst  Indigenous-state relations in Canada, and more broadly, the significance of Indigenous struggles to the political ontology of the Anthropocene. His work seeks to question interpretations of modernity as an age that can be consigned to the past, and what forms of resistance enable understandings of modernity as a force that constitutes Indigenous lifeworlds today. He is a citizen of Métis Nation - Saskatchewan. 
Research Interests

critical and radical political theory
Anthropocene
biopolitics
Indigenous-state relations
global Indigenous politics

Publications


​Gravlin, M. (2025). All my...non-relation: Critical Indigenous theory in the Anthropocene. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Online First: 1-26. 
Gravlin, M. (2024). To forsake becoming: Indigenous ontologies, land defence, and the resistance at Standing Rock. Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory, Vol. 1, No. 7: 1-22. 
Gravlin, M. (2024). Prophecy redux: A critique of Leanne Simpson's concept of autogenocide. Settler Colonial Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1: 23-41.