Dr. Iloradanon Efimoff

Biography: 

Dr. Iloradanon Efimoff is Haida and European settler from the northwest coast of British Columbia. After completing her BA (Hons.) in Applied Psychology at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC, she worked as a research assistant with the DUDES Club, an Indigenous men’s health organization in Vancouver. Dr. Efimoff later completed her SSHRC-funded MA in Applied Social Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan, focusing on perceptions and attitudes towards White-presenting Indigenous peoples. She completed her Vanier-funded PhD in Social and Personality Psychology at the University of Manitoba. Through her mixed-methods dissertation, Dr. Efimoff created and experimentally tested an educational approach to help combat anti-Indigenous racism in Canada. She finished her Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research for Indigenous Social Action and Equity (RISE) Center and Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. At RISE, she focused on the identity experiences of multiracial Indigenous people, a growing and understudied group in Canada.

Dr. Efimoff has two current streams of research. First, she studies the impact of education on reducing anti-Indigenous racism. Second, she investigates the experiences of multiracial Indigenous people in Canada. Her other research interests include reconciliation, Indigenization (particularly in the context of psychology and postsecondary institutions), and Indigenous wellbeing. 

Selected Publications:

Efimoff, I. H. & Starzyk, K. B. (in press). The impact of learning about historical and current injustices, individual racism, and systemic racism on anti-Indigenous prejudice. European Journal of Social Psychology.

Efimoff, I. H. (2022). A thematic analysis of Indigenous students’ experiences with Indigenization at a Canadian post-secondary institution: Paradoxes, potential, and moving forward together. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2022.13.1.10700

Neufeld, K. H. S., Starzyk. K. B., Boese, G., Efimoff, I. H., & Wright, S. (2021). “The more you know”: Critical historical knowledge about Indian Residential Schools increases non-Indigenous Canadians’ empathy for Indigenous Peoples. Political Psychology, 43(4), 617-633. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12783. 

Efimoff, I. H.,* Patrick, L.,* Josewski, V., Gross, P. A., Lambert, S., & Smye, V. (2021). The power of connections: How a novel Canadian men’s wellness program is improving the health and well-being of Indigenous and non-Indigenous men. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 12(2), 1-22. doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2021.12.2.10896. *These authors contributed equally.

Gross, P. A., Efimoff, I. H., Patrick, L., Joweski, V., Hau, K., Lambert, S., & Smye, V. (2016). The DUDES Club: A brotherhood for men’s health. Canadian Family Physician, 62(6), e311–e318.