Mark Munsterhjelm teaches in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Windsor. He completed an MA in the Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria and a PhD in Sociology and Social Justice at the University of Windsor.

His first book, Living Dead in the Pacific: Contested Sovereignty and Racism in Genetic Research on Taiwan Aborigines (2014 UBC Press), won the 2015 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize from the Canadian Communication Association. https://www.ubcpress.ca/living-dead-in-the-pacific