{{Like resume|date=June 2023}} {{Short description|Canadian historian}}

'''Cody Groat''' is a Canadian scholar and historian, who focuses on the federal commemoration of Indigenous history from 1919 to present. He is a Kanyen'kehaka citizen and band member of Six Nations of the Grand River.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Butler |first=Colin |date=Oct 11, 2022 |title=How an Indigenous voice on London's next city council could make a difference |work=CBC |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-ontario-city-hall-diversity-1.6608387 |access-date=October 14, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-04-22 |title=Cody Groat appointed to Indigenous Studies and History at Western |url=https://uwaterloo.ca/tri-university-history-graduate-program/news/cody-groat-appointed-indigenous-studies-and-history-western |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=Tri-University History Graduate Program |language=en}}</ref>

== Early life == Cody grew up in Ingersoll, Ontario.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2016-09-21 |title=Sharing stories one Canadian at a time |url=https://tworowtimes.com/news/local/sharing-stories-one-canadian-time/ |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=Two Row Times |language=en}}</ref> His grandparents were survivors of the Canadian Indian residential school system, and his father a survivor of the Sixties Scoop.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Alper |first=Hannah |title=Indigenous studies prof Cody Groat on exploring his family's past |url=https://westerngazette.ca/culture/indigenous-studies-prof-cody-groat-on-exploring-his-family-s-past/article_d64ef9ac-4109-11ed-8c10-632ae3775218.html |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=The Gazette • Western University's Student Newspaper |date=30 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

== Education == Groat holds a Master of Arts in World Heritage Studies from the University of Birmingham<ref>{{Cite news |date=Autumn 2018 |title=Old Joe Alumni and Friends Magazine |publisher=University of Birmingham |url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/alumni/old-joe/Old-Joe-Autumn-2018.pdf |access-date=2022-10-15}}</ref> and earned his PhD in History at Wilfrid Laurier University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cody Groat |url=https://indigenous.uwo.ca/faculty/cody_groat.html |access-date=2022-10-14 |website=indigenous.uwo.ca |language=en}}</ref>

== Career == Early in his academic career, Groat published a compilation of more than 30 interviews with famous Canadians, including Paul Martin, Kim Campbell, Dan Aykroyd, and Farley Mowat.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Longwell |first=Karen |date=2016-11-04 |title=Young writer Cody Groat publishes 'Canadian Stories' including a chapter on Port Hope's Farley Mowat |url=https://www.mykawartha.com/whatson-story/6945938-young-writer-cody-groat-publishes-canadian-stories-including-a-chapter-on-port-hope-s-farley-mowat/ |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=MyKawartha.com |language=en-CA}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> He is currently a professor at University of Western Ontario in the Department of History and the Indigenous Studies program<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cody Groat |url=https://history.uwo.ca/people/faculty/Groat.html |access-date=2022-10-14 |website=history.uwo.ca |language=en}}</ref> As a historian and academic, Cody Groat has been interviewed in relation to Truth and Reconciliation in Canada by news outlets such as The New York Times,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Horowitz |first=Jason |date=2022-07-25 |title=Francis Begs Forgiveness for 'Evil' Christians Inflicted on Indigenous People |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/07/25/world/pope-francis-canada-visit |access-date=2022-10-15 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> CBC News,<ref name=":1" /> and Global News.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Papal apology sparks calls to renounce 500-year-old Doctrine of Discovery - National {{!}} Globalnews.ca |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/9026698/papal-apology-renounce-doctrine-of-discovery/ |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=Global News |language=en-US}}</ref> He is a former President of the Board of Directors for the Indigenous Heritage Circle<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-08-05 |title=Board of Directors |url=https://indigenousheritage.ca/board-of-directors/ |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=Indigenous Heritage Circle |language=en-CA}}</ref> and is currently Chair of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO's Memory of the World National Committee.<ref>{{Cite news |year=2017 |title=Memory of the World National Committee - Canada |publisher=UNESCO |url=https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/mow_national_committee_canada_en_0.pdf |access-date=2022-10-15}}</ref>

==Politics== Groat was the New Democratic Party candidate for the 2023 Oxford federal by-election, having defeated former candidate Matthew Chambers for the nomination.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor wins NDP nod for Southwestern Ontario federal byelection |url=https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/professor-wins-ndp-nod-for-southwestern-ontario-federal-byelection |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=lfpress |language=en-CA}}</ref>

==Electoral history== {{2023 Canadian federal by-elections/Oxford}}

== Awards ==

* 2022: Canadian Historical Association's Indigenous History Best Article Prize<ref>{{Cite web |title=CHA Prizes |url=https://cha-shc.ca/english/what-we-do/prizes/the-indigenous-history-book-prize.htm |access-date=2022-10-14 |website=cha-shc.ca |language=en}}</ref> * SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2019-2021)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cody Groat |url=https://history.uwo.ca/people/faculty/Groat.html |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=history.uwo.ca |language=en}}</ref>

== Publications ==

** “Holding Place: Resistance, Reframing and Relationally in the Representation of Indigenous History,” with Kim Anderson, Historic Perspectives Dossier on Commemoration for ''The Canadian Historical Review,'' 2021, Vol. 102 (03), pp.&nbsp;465–484.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Groat |first1=Cody |last2=Anderson |first2=Kim |date=2021-08-01 |title=Holding Place: Resistance, Reframing, and Relationality in the Representation of Indigenous History |url=https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/chr-2020-0045 |journal=Canadian Historical Review |volume=102 |issue=3 |pages=465–484 |doi=10.3138/chr-2020-0045 |s2cid=237924122 |issn=0008-3755|url-access=subscription }}</ref> ** “Commemoration and Reconciliation: The Mohawk Institute as a World Heritage Site,” ''British Journal of Canadian Studies'', 2018, Vol. 31 (2), pp.&nbsp;195–208.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Groat |first=Cody |date=2018 |title=Commemoration and reconciliation: The Mohawk Institute as a World Heritage Site |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/728349 |journal=British Journal of Canadian Studies |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=195–208 |doi=10.3828/bjcs.2018.14 |s2cid=197810940 |issn=1757-8078|url-access=subscription }}</ref> ** ''Canadian Stories: A Teenaged Adventure with Presidents, Drag Queens and Drug Lords'' (Rapido Books, 2016)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Groat |first=Cody |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JtTzvQAACAAJ |title=Canadian Stories: A Teenaged Adventure with Presidents, Drag Queens and Drug Lords |date=July 2016 |publisher=Cody Groat |isbn=978-0-9951928-0-5 |language=en}}</ref> ** “Indigenous Peoples and the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme,” Canadian Commission for UNESCO IdeaLabs Policy Paper, forthcoming.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Groat, Cody}} Category:21st-century Canadian historians Category:21st-century First Nations writers Category:21st-century Haudenosaunee people Category:Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario Category:Alumni of the University of Birmingham Category:Canadian Mohawk people Category:First Nations academics Category:First Nations politicians Category:Historians from Ontario Category:Living people Category:New Democratic Party candidates for the Canadian House of Commons Category:People from Ingersoll, Ontario Category:Six Nations of the Grand River people Category:Year of birth missing (living people)