Dr Nancy WACHOWICH

Dr Nancy WACHOWICH The University of Aberdeen School of Social Science

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Lecturer

BA, MA, PhD

Personal Details

Telephone:	+44 (0)1224 273203
Email:	n.wachowich@abdn.ac.uk
Address:	G03, Edward Wright Building, Dunbar Street, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, AB243QY

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Biography

PhD in Cultural Anthropology, 2001, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

MA in Symbolic Anthropology, 1992, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

BA in Anthropology, 1989, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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Research Interests

arctic anthropology, ethnohistory, oral traditions, museums and material culture, visual anthropology, anthropology of colonialism, anthropology of art, indigenous media

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Current Research

Inuit oral traditions, material culture, historical anthropology, anthropology of art

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Research Grants

'Inuit video art', British Academy Small Grant, 2004-2008

'Material Histories: Social Relationships between Scots and Aboriginal Peoples in the Canadian Fur Trade , c. 1870-1930', Art and Humanities Research Council, 2005-2007, (with Professor Tim Ingold and Dr. Alison Brown)

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Teaching Responsibilities

Anthropology 2511, Colonialism Re-imagined

Anthropology 3006, Methods in Anthropological Research

Anthropology 3519, Ethnography

Anthropology 1002, Introduction to Anthropology I

Anthropology 4522, Oral Traditions

Anthropology 4528 Anthropology of the North (subsistence hunting module)

Anthropology 4010, Indigenous Media

Anthropology 3018, Society and Nature (animal rights module)

Anthropology 5003, Philosophy and Methods in Research in Social Anthropology, Ethnology and Cultural History

School of Social Science Postgraduate Training 5055, (Academic writing skills module)

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External Responsibilities

Faculty and Steering Committee Member, International PhD School for the Study of Arctic Societies (IPSSAS)

External Examiner, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge (2006-2009)

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Admin Responsibilities

Department of Anthropology Postgraduate Admissions Officer

Chair of the Angus Pelham Burn Award (for Northern Research) Committee

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Postgraduate Supervision

Current students:

Katrin Annemarie Simon, Doctorate, Thesis title: Yup’ik Performance, Dialogue and Storytelling in Alaska

Zoe Sarah Todd, Doctorate, Thesis title: Lands, Lakes and Livelihoods: women’s subsistence fishing in Paulatuk, NT

Tara Joly, Doctorate, Doctorate, Thesis title: The Social Life of Wetlands: wetland reclamation in the western subarctic of Canada

Christina Williamson, Doctorate, Thesis title: Inuit material histories

Ursual Obrosnik, Masters, Thesis title: Urban Aborginal media in Winnipeg, Canada

Former students:

Peter Lawrence Bates, Doctorate, Thesis title: Knowing caribou: Inuit, ecological science and traditional ecological knowledge in the Canadian Arctic

Sophie Caecilie Elixhauser, Doctorate, Thesis title: Nammeq: Personal autonomy and everyday communication in East Greenland

Hiroko Ikuta, Doctorate, Thesis title: Sociality of Dance: Eskimo Dance among Yupiget on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Barrow, Alaska

Irena Leisbet Connon, Doctorate, Thesis title: Oral narratives and the reaffirmation of native Alutiiq identity

Lidia Joanna Jendzjowsky, MPhil, Dissertation Title: Photographs of landscape and indigenous peoples along the Skeena River, Canada

Amber Anne Lincoln, Doctorate, Thesis title: Things of use, things of life: coordinating lives through matieral practices in Northwest Alaska

Anna C MacLennan, Masters of Research, Dissertation title: Layers in the Cold: the potential of an anthropological study of Inuit skin clothing

Martina Anne Tyrrell, Doctorate, Thesis title: Inuit perception, knowledge and use of the sea in Arviat, Nunavut

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

Wachowich, N. 'With or Without the Camera Running: Inuit filmmaking and sana'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.).
Wachowich, N. & Scobie, W. (2010). 'Uploading Selves: Inuit digital storytelling on YouTube'. Études Inuit Studies, vol 34, no. 2, pp. 81-105.

Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

Wachowich, N. (2010). 'Kiumajut (Talking Back)'. Canadian Historical Review, vol 91, no. 1, pp. 151-153.
Wachowich, N. (2002). 'Review of Hunting Tradition in a Changing World: Yup'ik Lives in Alaska Today'. Polar Record, vol 38, no. 207, pp. 367-368.

Editorials

Wachowich, N. (2010). 'Creative Technologies: experimentation and social practice in Arctic societies'. Études Inuit Studies, vol 34, no. 2, pp. 5-11.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

Wachowich, N. (2004). 'An overview of Iglulingmiut and Mittimatalingmiut Culture and History'. G Robinson (ed.), in: Isuma Inuit Studies Reader. Isuma Publishing, Montreal and Igloolik, Canada, pp. 131-136.
Wachowich, N. (2002). 'Interview with Paul Apak Angilirq'. P Apak Angilirq, N Cohn & B Saladin d'Anglure (eds), in: Atanarjuat: the fast runner. Coach House Books and Isuma Publishing, Ottawa and Igloolik, Canada.
Wachowich, N. (1998). 'Exhibiting Knowledge: Videoconferencing, the Arctic Odyssey and the Canadian Museum of Nature'. L-J Dorais & M Nagy (eds), in: Aboriginal Environmental Knowledge in the North. Gétic, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, pp. 81-94.

Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Wachowich, N. (2010). 'Visual Anthropology'. A Barnard & J Spencer (eds), in: The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Second edn, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 708-710.
Wachowich, N. (2004). 'Ataguttaaluk'. G Hallowell (ed.), in: The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Oxford Companions, Oxford University Press, Don Mills, ON, Canada, pp. 52-52.
Wachowich, N. (2004). 'Qitdlarssuaq (Qitdlak)'. G Hallowell (ed.), in: The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Oxford Companions, Oxford University Press, Don Mills, ON, Canada, pp. 521-521.
Wachowich, N. (2004). 'Taqulittuq (Tookoolito, Hannah) and Ipirvik (Ebierbing Joe)'. G Hallowell (ed.), in: The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Oxford Companions, Oxford University Press, Don Mills, ON, Canada, pp. 606-606.
Wachowich, N. (2004). 'Tulugajuak, Peter'. G Hallowell (ed.), in: The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Oxford Companions, Oxford University Press, Don Mills, ON, Canada, pp. 624-624.

Books and Reports

Books

Wachowich, N. (1999). 'Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women'. Native and Northern Series, vol. 19, McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal, Canada.

Non-textual Forms

Exhibitions

Brown, AK. & Wachowich, N., (2008). 'Material Histories of the Fur Trade'. , 2008, Exhibition.

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