Bio
Andrew Wiebe (he/them) is an Indigi-Queer (Red River Michif) PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Information. His PhD project, Lii Lozh di Kaastor (The Beaver Lodge), thinks about how to systematically build Indigenous and Queer stories into traditional archival practice through a methodology inspired by our relationship with beavers. The beaver offers a relational imagination of how to build Indigenous memory into institutions by being attentive to how dam-building regenerates ecosystems while selecting what is destroyed. Building a dam in the archive involves forming a structured space of diplomacy between these two worlds, where Indigenous Knowledge can structurally coexist with traditional archival practice. Ultimately, he works with and against traditional archives to re-examine how to privilege Indigenous methods of sharing community Knowledge even within a traditionally Western style of remembering.
Specializations
Critical Indigenous Studies, Archives and Records Management, Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies, Literature and Storytelling, Digital Humanities,
Publications
- Brauen, G., Pyne, S., Wiebe, A, & Valeri, D., (Accepted). Mapping Assiniboia Residential School Survivor Stories: Did You See Us? Cartographica
- Stokes, J., MacLean, S-B., Craig, J., Tanya, H., Gregory, P., Nokhrin, I., Atiya, A., Moore, M., Wiebe, A., & Southgate, L. (Eds.). (2025). Suffolk Collection. Reed Online. https://ereed.org/collections/suffk/
- Wiebe, A. (2024). Born from Lithium Minds: A Guide on Mapping Digital Kinship. iJournal, 10(1), 49–63.
- Wiebe, A. (2024, November 20). When building Indigenous infrastructure, build relationally, like beavers. The Conversation.
- Pyne, S., Valeri, D., & Wiebe, A. (2023). Mapping Assiniboia Residential School Survivor Stories: Did You See Us? Cartouche, 100, 20–22.
- Wiebe, A. (2023, August 15). Zoom’s scrapped proposal to mine user data causes concern about our virtual and private Indigenous Knowledge. The Conversation.
- Wiebe, A. (2022). Killer decorations: The killer rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail as an extension of the gothic manuscript tradition. USURJ, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.32396/usurj.v8i2.491
Affiliations
- Technoscience Research Unit
General Research Assistant - Indigenous Computational Futures
Member/Contributor - Ontario Libraries Association
Indigenous Advisory Council - GIAMedia
Research Assistant for Residential School Survivor Stories - Indigenous Research Council, Canada First Research Excellence Fund Project
Acceleration Consortium: Self-driving Labs for Molecular and Materials - The ArQuives
Collections and Public Service Committee (Digital Exhibits) - R.E.E.D – Records for Early English Drama
Retired Research Assistant - Old Books New Science
Lab Member
Awards
- SSHRC-CGS Canadian Graduate Scholarship (2024-2027)
University of Toronto (FOI) - Marcia J. Nauratil Memorial Scholarship
University of Toronto (FOI) - University Of Toronto Women’s Association Adele Csima Scholarship (2024)
University of Toronto (FOI) - Jack Hallam Uc’52 Graduate Scholarship In Sexual Diversity Studies (2024)
University of Toronto (SDS) - Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2024/Declined 2025 for CGS) University of Toronto (FOI)
- David Rayside Graduate Students Award (2024)
University of Toronto (SDS) - Metis Nation Post-Secondary Education Financial Assistance Program (2024-2025)
- Métis Nation University Sponsorship Program (2021-2023)
Gabriel Dumont Institute - Centre For Medieval Studies Entrance Award (2021)
University of Toronto (CMS) - Grace Buller Aboriginal Student Scholarship (2021)
Ontario Library Association - Hannon Scholarship (2020)
University of Saskatchewan
Degrees
- B.A. Hon. English – University of Saskatchewan
- B.A. Hon. Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies – University of Saskatchewan
- M.I., Information Systems and Design & Archives and Records Management – University of Toronto
- M.A. Medieval Studies – University of Toronto
Course Titles
- INF2186 – Metadata Schemas and Applications – Faculty of Information – University of Toronto
- CCT110, Foundations in Management – ICCIT – University of Toronto, Mississauga