Research Areas
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Research Overview
arctic anthropology, ethnohistory, oral traditions, museums and material culture, visual anthropology, anthropology of colonialism, anthropology of art, indigenous media, collaborative methodologies
Current Research
Inuit oral traditions, material culture, historical anthropology, digitial archiving, collaborative methodologies, media anthropology, visual anthropology, cultural heritage, anthropology of art
Collaborations
Mobilizing Inuit Cultural Heritage (MICH): a multi-media, multiplatform re-engagement of voice in visual arts and performance, York University, Canada
Mittimatalik Arnait Miqsuqtuit Collective: a women’s seal skin sewing and digital archiving collective based in the Inuit community of Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet), Nunavut Canada. See: https://vimeo.com/mamc
Supervision
Current students:
Qingyang Li, Masters of Research, Dissertation topic: dance and NGOs in a Chinese village
Hanna Louise, Masters of Research, Dissertation topic: disabilities and social activism
Kirsty Kernohan, Doctorate, Thesis topic: Nineteenth century women's material histories and the Stonehaven collection.
Ursula Obrusnkk, Doctorate, Thesis topic: The politics of belonging in a Czech-Polish border town.
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, Masters of Philosphy, 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
Katrin Annemarie Simon-Sakurai, Doctorate, Thesis title: Never alone: Narratives of spirits in an Alaskan Yup’ik community
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
Silvije Habulinec, Masters of Research, Dissertation Title: Material histories of Military Sites in Kangirlussuaq, Greenland, 2015.
Ursual Obrusnik, Masters of Research, Dissertation title: Urban Aborginal media in Winnipeg, Canada, 2015.
Zoe Todd, Doctorate, Thesis title: ‘You Never Go Hungry’: Fish pluralities, human-fish relationships, Indigenous legal orders and colonialism in Paulatuuq, Canada.
Tara Joly, Doctorate, Thesis title: The Social Life of Wetlands: wetland reclamation in the western subarctic of Canada, 2017
Frederique Manceau, Masters of Research, Dissertation topic: The lingerie industry and lace craftsmanship in France.
Tamara Ranspot, Doctorate, Thesis topic: Ethnomusicology and animal-human relationships in the Yukon, Canada, 2019
Gioia Barnbrook, Doctorate, Thesis title: Continuing the Hunt: Environmental Change, Ecological Knowledge and Provision in Wemindji, Northern Quebec. 2019
Research Funding and Grants
Skin sewing segment of 'Mobilizing Inuit Cultural Heritage: a multi/media platform re-engagment of voice in visual art and performance, Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Anna Hudson, York University, PI
'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)