Fiona Nicoll

Fiona Nicoll (she/they) is Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Fiona's greatest strength as a researcher is creating interdisciplinary conversations about some of the most challenging political issues of our time, from genocide and reconciliation to gambling policy and the challenges facing the neoliberal university. Fiona is the founding editor of the international journal Critical Gambling Studies and is active in a range of knowledge mobilization projects, including catalogue essays, exhibition curation, media production (including websites and film), and the development of a micro-credential course on Gambling and Gaming.

Their research themes include the politics of art and everyday life, reconciliation, Indigenous sovereignty, public art, white settler nationalisms, and gambling policy. Fiona's analytical frameworks include critical gambling studies, critical race and whiteness studies, engagement with Indigenous knowledges, science and technology studies, and theories of aesthetics and cultural history.

Fiona is the author of monographs on the cultural politics of national identity, From Diggers to Drag Queens : Configurations of Australian National Identity, (Pluto Press, 2001) and Gambling in Everyday Life (Routledge, 2019).