Publications
Ballard, M., Datta, R., Niroula, S. P., & Chapola, J. (2026). Disappearing Natives, Emerging Invasives: Indigenous Knowledge, Biodiversity Loss, and Climate Resilience in Gandaki Province, Nepal. Journal of Ethnobiology, 0(0): https://doi.org/10.1177/0278077126147972
Datta, R., Ballard, M., Niroula, S.P., & Chapola, J. (2026). Community-led earthquake preparedness in Nepal: A decolonial conversational study of trauma, governance, and resilience. Natural Hazards, 122(617): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-026-08394-1.
Grimm, J., Soares, B. E., Zanjani, L. V., Ballard, M., Chiblow, S., Andrade, R. S., ... & Bernos, T. A. (2026). Endangered species laws and the inclusion of Indigenous knowledges and sciences in risk assessments. Conservation Biology, e70235.
Chaulk, K., Ballard, M., Hill, S., Wolfrey, D., Campbell, M., Sutherland, M., ... & Auger, L. (2025). Bridging, Braiding, and Weaving Indigenous and Western Science to Understand and Make Predictions About Weather and Climate Change. Ecology and Evolution, 15(9), e72085.
Ballard, M. (2024). Anishinaabe Kwek Piimachiiwin: Indigenous Women’s Anishiniaabe Knowledge Systems. In E.A. Kim and K. Czuy (Eds.), Relational Land-based Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) Education (pp. 73-90). Peter Lang Group AG.
Olsen-Harper, A., Hill, S., Ballard, M., & Thompson, S. (2023). Shifting from Economic Poverty to Prosperity: The Challenge for Indigenous Communities. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 14, 3-14.
Alexander, S. M., Provencher, J. F., Henri, D. A., Nanayakkara, L., Taylor, J. J., Berberi, A., Lloren J.I., Johnson J. T., Ballard M. & Cooke, S. J. (2021). Bridging Indigenous and Western sciences in freshwater research, monitoring, and management in Canada. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2(3), e12085.
Ballard, M., Coughlin, J., & Martin, D. (2020). Reconciling with Minoaywin: First Nations elders’ advice to promote healing from forced displacement. Canadian Journal on Aging/La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, 39(2), 169-177.
Ballard, M. (2017). "Who Is Minding the First Nations During the Flood?: Failing Advocacy at Every Policy Turn During a Human/Environmental Crisis.” In N. Mulé and G.C. Desantis (Eds.), The Shifting Terrain: Nonprofit Policy Advocacy in Canada (pp. 140-171). McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Martin, D. E., Thompson, S., Ballard, M., & Linton, J. (2017). Two-Eyed Seeing in Research and its Absence in Policy. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 8(4), 1-25.
Ballard, M., & Thompson, S. (2013). Flooding hope and livelihoods: Lake St. Martin First Nation. Canadian journal of nonprofit and social economy research, 4(1).
Ballard, M. (2012). Flooding sustainable livelihoods of the Lake St Martin First Nation: The need to enhance the role of gender and language in Anishinaabe knowledge systems (Doctoral dissertation, University of Manitoba (Canada)).
Thompson, S., Ballard, M., & Martin, D. (2012). Lake St. Martin First Nation Community Members’ Experiences of Induced Displacement. Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, 29(2), 75-86.
Thompson, S., Gulrukh, A., Ballard, M., Beardy, B., Islam, D., Lozeznik, V., & Wong, K. (2011). Is community economic development putting healthy food on the table? Food sovereignty in northern Manitoba’s Aboriginal communities. Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, 7(2), 14-39.