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Valerie Alia
Valerie Alia, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor at Royal Roads University in Canada, and founded the discipline of political onomastics (politics of naming) and studies identities, ethics, arts and media of arctic and indigenous peoples. She is Media Topics series editor for Edinburgh University Press and author of Names and Nunavut: Culture and Identity in Arctic Canada, Media Ethics and Social Change and The New Media Nation: Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication. She was a journalist and arts reviewer; and Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University and Running Stream Professor of Ethics and Identity at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her biography appears in Who’s Who in America, Who's Who in Canada; and Who’s Who in the World.