Regna Darnell

Regna Darnell is a Canadian anthropologist known for her linguistic anthropological fieldwork with the Plains Cree of northern Alberta and with southwestern Ontario First Nations peoples as well as for her scholarship on the history of anthropology. Darnell was born on July 10, 1943, in Cleveland Ohio. Notable for her extensive contributions towards anthropology as a field of study, numerous awards and certifications have been presented in honor of her prestigious input. She currently resides in London, Ontario.

She attended Bryn Mawr College where she had received her B.A. in Anthropology and English in 1965. She continued to the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned initially earned her M.A. in 1967, followed by her Ph.D. in 1969. Darnell was awarded the honorary degree of D. Litt. from the University of Waterloo in 2009. She was a student of A. Irving Hallowell.

Regna has conducted research/fieldwork in Saskatchewan, Northern Alberta, British Columbia, West Africa and Southern Ontario. Her career has displayed a focus towards language, Indigenous Knowledge, social change, mobility, traditional medicine, ecosystem health, identity and the history of anthropology.

Darnell had been employed as at the University of Alberta from 1969-1990, where she had retained the title of professor in 1979. She had relocated to the University of Western Ontario as Chair of Anthropology from 1990-1993, as well positioning herself as Director of the Center for Research and Teaching of Canadian Native Languages in 1992.. Currently she is professor of Anthropology and First Nations Studies at the University of Western Ontario, where she has founded the First Nations Studies Program.

Additionally, Regna had served as an educator affiliated in Women's Studies and Feminist Research. In subsequence to this, Regna remains incorporated in the centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, in which she worked in cooperation with McMaster University from 1994-2010. Darnell is also involved in numerous other disciplinary fields, including Environmental Health, Pathology, and worked in turn with the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry since 2006. Serving as a Bicentennial Professor for Canadian studies and Anthropology in 2000, this added further institutional experience with Pierson College.

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