land tenure systems. He has led community-engaged research, including the Commemorating Ye'yumnuts project with Cowichan Tribes, and the work to Indigenize the Cordova Bay Local Area Plan. Thom has served on the editorial board of the Canadian Anthropology Society journal Anthropologica and is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Recognition Awards and honours Brian Thom’s work has had impact beyond the academy, which has been recognized by several distinguished awards and honours. In 2022 Brian Thom received the prestigious Leadership Victoria award for Extending Reconciliation, in recognition of his work with WSANEC communities and the District of Saanich to Indigenize local area planning in Cordova Bay. https://www.leadershipvictoria.ca/vcla-winners; https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2022+leadership-victoria-thom+news In 2022 Brian Thom was awarded the UVic Provost’s Award in Engaged Scholarship, a distinction for tenured faculty members who have achieved great distinction as community engaged scholars. https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2022+provosts-engaged-scholars+news In 2021 Brian was a nominee for the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia Distinguished Academics award Academic of the Year. https://www.cufa.bc.ca/awards/past-winners/winners-of-the-2021-distinguished-academics-awards-nominees/ In 2020, Brian Thom was recognized by the University of Victoria Faculty of Social Sciences for outstanding community outreach https://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/people/awards-honours/index.php Selected works (2020) Thom, Brian with Sarah Morales. The Principle of Sharing and the Shadow of Canadian Property Law. Pp. 120-162 in Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships, edited by Angela Cameron, Sari Graben, and Val Napoleon. Toronto, University of Toronto Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781487532116-005 (2020) Encountering Indigenous Legal Orders in Canada. Invited contribution to Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology. Marie-Claire Foblets, Mark Goodale, Maria Sapignoli, and Olaf Zenke, editors. London: Oxford University Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198840534.013.15 (2020) Addressing the Challenge of Overlapping Claims in Implementing the Vancouver Island (Douglas) Treaties. Anthropologica. 62(2):295-307. https://doi.org/10.3138/anth-2020-0014 (2019) Leveraging International Power: Private Property and the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. pp. 184–203 in Scales of Governance and Indigenous Peoples' Rights, edited by Jennifer Hays and Irène Bellier. (Law and the Postcolonial: Ethics, Politics, and Economy Series), Routledge, London. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315671888 (2019) Tirer parti du droit international: la propriété privée et les droits des peuples autochtones au Canada. pp 195–216 dans Les échelles de la gouvernance et des droits des peuples autochtones, Sous la direction de Irène Bellier et Jennifer Hays. Paris, L'Harmattan. https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=63415 (2017) Entanglements in Coast Salish Ancestral Territories. In Entangled Territorialities: Indigenous Peoples from Canada and Australia in the 21st Century, edited by Françoise Dussart & Sylvie Poirier. pp. 140–162. Anthropological Horizons Series, University of Toronto Press, Toronto. https://utorontopress.com/ca/entangled-territorialities-2 (2016)