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Current Research and Initiatives

Co-founder and Lead of the Material Culture Collective, a society dedicated to material culture. www.materialculturecollective.ca

2026 The McKendry Quilt Collection at the Canadian Museum of History, SSHRC Partnership Engage, SSHRC Partnership Engage

2026 The NONIA Knitters: Stitching a Legacy, Partnership with Dr. Kelley Totten, Memorial University – St. John’s and Sonya Jampolsky, Independent Film maker, Halifax.

2020 Indigenous Approaches to the Western Literary and Visual Canon, New Frontiers Research Fund, SSHRC, Co-investigator

2020 Creating Vocabularies and Rituals for Climate Grief Through Multiple Knowledge Systems and Artistic Process, New Frontiers Research Fund, SSHRC, Collaborator

Book Chapters and Peer Reviewed Articles

Books
Canadian Quilts and their Makers: Design, Material, Place in the 19th Century, Vancouver: UBC Press, forthcoming summer 2026.

Co-edited Books
Where we Meet: Expressions of the Indigenous Artists Collective, Lisa Binkley, SJ Jones, and Rachel Hurst, eds. Fredericton: Goose Lane Press, 2026. Co-editor and author of one chapter listed below.

Dwelling on the Margins of Empire: Reimagining Colonial and Indigenous Histories of Home, Lisa Binkley, Ed., London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Editor and author of two chapters listed below.

Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needlearts, Johanna Amos and Lisa Binkley, eds. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Co-editor and author of two chapters listed below.

Book Chapters
Binkley, Lisa, "Home on the Margins," in Dwelling on the Margins: Reimagining Colonial and Indigenous Histories of Home. Lisa Binkley, ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

Binkley, Lisa, "Along the Water’s Edge: Making Home in the Pays d’en Haut," in Dwelling on the Margins: Reimagining Colonial and Indigenous Histories of Home. Lisa Binkley, ed., London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

Binkley, Lisa, "Piecing Heritage in Transition: Star Quilts as a Symbol of Pan-Indigeneity," in Susan Surette and Elaine C. Paterson eds., Craft and Heritage: Intersections in Critical Studies and Practice, London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021.

Binkley, Lisa, "(Re)Viewing a 1960s Mi'kmaw Ribbon Skirt: Reclamation, Resilience, Resistance," in Transnational Perspectives on Feminism and Art, 1960-1985, Angelique Szymanek, Jen Kennedy and Trista Mallory, eds., New York: Routledge, 2021, 27-40.

Binkley, Lisa, "Dis(playing) Politics: Craft and the Caughnawaga Exhibition, 1883," in Craft is Political, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, 34-50.

Binkley, Lisa. "Whig’s Defeat: Stitching Settler Culture, Politics, and Identity." In Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needlearts. Eds. Lisa Binkley and Johanna Amos, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, 83-96.

Binkley, Lisa and Johanna Amos. "Introduction: Stitching the Self." In Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needlearts. Eds. Lisa Binkley and Johanna Amos, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, 1-20.

Peer reviewed articles
Binkley, Lisa, "Marketing Indigenous Craft: A Kanien'keha:ka Silk Patchwork Quilt," Journal of Canadian Art History,Vol. 39:2/40:1, (Special Edition 2019), 64-80.

Peer reviewed book chapters
Binkley, Lisa, "(Re)Viewing a 1960s Mi'kmaw Ribbon Skirt: Reclamation, Resilience, Resistance," in Transnational Perspectives on Feminism and Art, 1960-1985, Angelique Szymanek, Jen Kennedy, and Trista Mallory, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2021).

Binkley, Lisa, "Dis(playing) Politics: Craft and the Caughnawaga Exhibition, 1883," in Craft is Political (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021).

Binkley, Lisa, "Piecing Heritage in Transition:  Star Quilts as a Symbol of Pan-Indigeneity. In Susan Surette and Elaine C. Paterson (Eds.), Craft and Heritage: Intersections in Critical Studies and Practice (London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic Press, In press, 2021).

Binkley, Lisa, "Whig's Defeat:  Stitching Settler Culture, Politics and Identity." In Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needlearts. Eds. Lisa Binkley and Johanna Amos, (London: Bloomsbury Academic, (2020), 83-96.

Binkley, Lisa, "Introduction: Stitching the Self."  In Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needlearts. Eds. Lisa Binkley and Johanna Amos, (London: Bloomsbury Academic, (2020), 1-20.

Articles in Refereed Volumes
Melanie Zurba, Binkley, Lisa, et al., "Exploring eco-grief, transformative learning, and action in environmental observers," Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.

Melanie Zurba, Binkley, Lisa, et al., Oxford Open Climate Change (28 January 2025), 1-39.

Melanie Zurba, Binkley, Lisa, et al., "I start to doubt whether any of my actions will matter: Youth Activists’ Experiences and Expressions of the Emotions Associated with Climate Change," Climate Change, 177 (2024): 100-121.

Binkley, Lisa, "Marketing Indigenous Craft: A Kanien’kehá:ka Silk Patchwork Quilt," Journal of Canadian Art History, Vol. 39:2/40:1, (Special Edition 2019 – printed in 2021), 64-80.

Non-Refereed Contributions
Binkley, Lisa, SJ Jones, and Rachel Hurst, eds., "Where we Meet," Where we Meet: Expressions of the Indigenous Artists Collective, Lisa Binkley, SJ Jones, and Rachel Hurst, eds. Fredericton: Goose Lane Press, 2026.

Binkley, Lisa, "The Politics of her Quilt: Jessie Campbell’s Whig’s Defeat," in The World Encyclopaedia of Textiles, London: Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2026.

Binkley, Lisa, "Métis Beadwork and Embroidery," in World Encyclopaedia of Textiles, Volume 5, London: Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2026.

Binkley, Lisa, "Following Lakota Cultural Practice: From Buffalo Painted Robe to Star Quilt," in Material Matters, Toronto: YYZ, forthcoming 2026.

Binkley, Lisa, Melanie Zurba, et al., Preprint, 2022.