Antonia Mills PhD

She is an Anthropologist and Professor Emerita in First Nations Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia - UNBC (Canada). She is an expert in the beliefs and experiences of reincarnation among indigenous peoples of northwestern North America and has also investigated and analyzed cases in India and the West. She co-edited the book “Amerindian rebirth: Reincarnation belief among North American Indians and Inuit” (1994).

She earned her bachelor’s and PhD degrees in Anthropology from Harvard University (USA).

She was hired by the Gitxsan and Witsuwit’en Tribal Council to write an expert report and testify in their favor in a landmark lawsuit aimed at halting clear-cut logging on their ancestral lands. In 1985, she was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to further her research among the Gitxsan and Witsuwit’en. In 1988, she took on two positions at the University of Virginia (USA): Research Assistant at the Division of Personality Studies, now known as the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS), and Lecturer in the Anthropology Department. In 1994, she left DOPS to join UNBC.