They include one of the first Indigenous women to be given the prestigious scholarship.
After completing undergraduate studies in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal respectively, Iakoiehwahtha Patton, Rayene Bouzitoun and Clovis Lachance will head to the University of Oxford — as Rhodes Scholars.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails.
Patton is completing a degree in art history, anthropology and Renaissance studies at the University of Toronto, where she is the president of the History of Art Students’ Association and participates in various Indigenous advisory committees, among other activities. A member of the Kanien’kehá:ka First Nation from Kahnawake, Patton is among the first Indigenous women to win the Rhodes Scholarship.
“My Renaissance minor gave me a time frame and movement to focus on: the early modern, from roughly the 15th century to the 17th,” she said. “My anthropology degree gave me a framework to approach my studies. I’ve taken many religion, gender, post-colonial, global capitalism and theory classes that have given me the tools to analyze art and its cultural and historical contexts.”Article content
“I didn’t have Indigenous scholars as role models until I entered university,” says Iakoiehwahtha Patton, who is completing a degree in art history, anthropology and Renaissance studies at the University of Toronto. “So I am acutely aware of the weight of my titles.”Bouzitoun, for her part, studied law and international development and globalization at the University of Ottawa.
“I was born at the end of it, so I didn’t experience it per se myself, but the civil war in Algeria has had repercussions and a lot of the people who are established in Canada today from the Algerian diaspora are refugees from that civil war,” she said. “Our parents lived it; the culture and the mentality in the country have been drastically transformed after this period of time.Article content
“I’ve always been fascinated by politics,” Lachance said. “International relations is politics, but … it touches all the world’s regions, it touches on how these regions are interconnected, and I find it fascinating to see how certain politics in certain countries influence how we operate here, and how we can be inspired by politics in other countries to change ours for the better.”Article content
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