About Joan Ryan The late Joan Ryan was professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Calgary, as well as a senior researcher with the Arctic Institute of North America. Books by Joan Ryan Doing Things the Right Way Dene Traditional Justice in Lac La Martre, NWT by (author) Joan Ryan Grey Matters A Guide for Collaborative Research with Seniors by (author) Nancy Marlett & Claudia Emes contributions by Penny Jennett, Bob Stebbins, Joan Ryan, Dorothy Dooley & Marianne Rogerson Canadian Ethnology Society: Papers from the fifth annual congress, 1978 edited by Joan Ryan