written work (public)

• On the Proper Way to Squeeze a Lemon, Food & Feeling zine

• turscar, prátaí, páistí, chlorophyll magazine

• Montréal Postcard: pain (au chocolate), kitchen work magazine Issue 10

• Pregnancy in the time of healthism abundance, Feminist Food Journal

• Lab-grown meat could leave marginalized people in need, The Conversation Canada

• Hey foodie, do you know where your meal came from?, originally published in The Conversation Canada, republished in Salon

• Canada’s new food guide: A fail on culture and sustainability?, The Conversation Canada, republished in The National Post

• Le nouveau guide alimentaire canadien est-il un échec culturel?, The Conversation Canada, republished in Huffington Post Quebec

• Alone Time: An urban foodie on dining solo, Culturally Modified, audio & written

• “rey” and “belladonna” (two poems) for untethered issue 3.2

written work (academic)

• Sioui, M., Martin Hill, D., Jacobs, B., Nagabhatla, N., Duignan, S., Patel, R., & Pangowish, S. (2022). Haudenosaunee women’s water law: Reclaiming the sacred. In R. Sioui (Ed.), Indigenous Water and Drought Management in a Changing World. Elsevier Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-824538-5.00004-2.

• Duignan, S., Moffat, C., & Martin Hill, D. (2022). Be like the running water: assessing gendered and age-based water insecurity experiences with Six Nations First Nation. Social Sci Med. 2022 Apr; 298:114864. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114864    

• Duignan, S., Moffat, C., & Martin Hill, D. (2022). Using boundary objects to co-create community health and water knowledge with community-based medical anthropology and Indigenous Knowledge. Engaged Scholars Journal 6(1): 49-76. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v6i1.68178   

• PhD Dissertation: Be Like the Running Water: Exploring the Intersections of Health and Water Security with Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation

• Duignan, S. (2019). Transforming society’s food choices. One Earth 1(3): 272-274. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2019.11.003

• Duignan, S. (2016). Uncovering the social child in mortuary contexts. Vis-á-vis: Explorations in Anthropology 13(1): 78-96. University of Toronto.

• Masters' Thesis: A tale of two isotopes: exploring human movement through strontium isotope analysis in two medieval Danish cemetery populations

selected interviews

• Sarah Duignan: Balancing Ambition, Single Motherhood, and a PhD Journey for Harness Magazine

• Food as knowledge, eating equitably, and digital literacy with Dr. Sarah Duignan (Planthropology Podcast)

• Meat grown in labs could keep carnivores happy and lower the carbon footprint of food production (Canada’s National Observer)

• Ohneganos Let’s Talk Water episode 1: Indigenous Access to Water During a Pandemic

• The Preserve Journal Perspective Series, Vol 19: Sarah Duignan

selected guest lectures & speaking

• Eating Uncertainty: A Medical Anthropology Perspective on Food, Fear, and Health Moralities” for Graduate Association for Food Studies, Sept 2025

• “Nourish: Connecting through Dumplings” for DesignTO Event with Mason Studios, which won the 2024 Best Event for DesignTO

• “Social Justice, Diversity, Inclusion and Activism within Social Sciences Podcasts” for Modern Languages Association Conference/Humanities Podcast Symposium, Oct 2021

• “Six Nations Water and Food Security in an Era of Climate Change” for McMaster Public Health Conference, Nov 2020 (online)

• “Testing the waters: community-led research on water security and holistic health with Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation” for Global Water Futures Conference, May 2020 (online)

• “Social Justice” for Global Water Futures Women and Water Lecture Series, Mar 2020 (online)

• “Water is our medicine—preliminary results of water quality testing and impact on maternal health, Six Nations” for Indigenous Community Health and Research Conference, Jan 2020

• “Intersections of land, water, and food: preliminary results of a co-created survey on water and food security with Six Nations of the Grand River” for American Anthropological Association Conference, Nov 2019

• “A discussion on the future of food: A DIG idea” Public talk in Guelph, Aug 2019

• “Food and Podcasting” for the Canadian Association for Food Studies, June 2019

• “Using podcasts for digital food activism” for Society for Applied Anthropology Conference, Mar 2019

• “Podcasting and adapting public anthropologist for the 21st century” for the American Anthropological Association Conference, Oct 2018

awards & recognitions

• 2025: Canadian Podcast Award Nominee: Outstanding News and Current Affairs Series

• 2024: Best Event for DesignTO 2024

• 2021: Canadian Podcast Award for Outstanding Science Series

• 2020: TOWebfest Podcast Nominee

• 2019: Parks Canada CEO Award of Excellence: Preserve, Protect, and Commemorate

• 2019: Sherman Centre Digital Scholarship Fellow, McMaster University

• 2019: Canadian Podcast Award for Science and Medicine

• 2017: Shelley R. Saunders Thesis Research Grant

• 2015: University of Manitoba Emerging Leaders Award

• 2014: Anthony Arnhold Graduate Fellowship in Anthropology

• 2011: Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award