Dr. Tara Joly is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia. She is an environmental anthropologist specializing in applied and community-based research with Indigenous peoples in northern Canada, and, more recently, studying gendered field safety in the social sciences.

Prior to joining UNBC, Dr. Joly was a Research Director with Willow Springs Strategic Solutions, Inc., a social science research consulting firm based in Cochrane, Alberta. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan, working with Dr. Clinton Westman. She received her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in 2017.