Heather’s research interests center on Inuit and other Native North American visual and material culture, the exhibition of contemporary Indigenous arts and culture, and issues of modernist primitivism, anti-modernism, colonization, sovereignty, resistance and resilience. Some of her recent publications related to this work include book chapters and catalogue essays in Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada (2014), Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism (2012); Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 (2012); Curating Difficult Knowledge (2011); Inuit Modern (2010); and Response, Responsibility, and Renewal: Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Journey (2009).