Dr. Carolyn Kenny
Carolyn Kenny, PhD is Professor of Human Development and Indigenous Studies in the PhD in Leadership and Change program.
Dr. Kenny previously held the position of Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research at the University of California Santa Barbara and an Associate Professor in First Nations Education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She has served as a Visiting Professor in many universities in Canada, Europe, and Japan. Her professional practices include Music Therapy and research in Indigenous communities.
She is a Board Certified Music Therapist and, as an Indigenous scholar, considers the practice of research in Native communities to be an important aspect of her identity as a “professional”.
Her lifelong research interests include the role of the arts in the revitalization of Indigenous societies, music therapy theory, and policy research with Native women. She has published and presented in many venues around the world. Her works have been translated into French, Portuguese, Bosnian-Herzegovinian, Japanese, Norweigan, German, and Inuktituk. Her latest publication, Music and Life in the Field of Play: An Anthology, is a selected collection of her works over the last thirty years in both Indigenous Studies, Music Therapy, and the role of the arts in social change.
Her areas of interest also include cultural studies, philosophy and theory of science, phenomenology, narrative inquiry, and education.
