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Scholars

Gloria Bell

Gloria is an interdisciplinary cultural worker working with Aboriginal communities in Ontario and is currently working on several projects surrounding storytelling and traditional knowledge research, and self-determination and colonial art. She is Métis with ancestral ties to the Red River Settlement and James Bay, and writes about Aboriginal cultural heritage issues on her blog metisramblings. more…More »

Deidre Brown

Literally building on IPinCH’s objective of interdisciplinary research is its first associate scholar – Deidre Brown, a senior lecturer in architecture at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Deidre, a descendant of the Ngapuhi and Ngati Kahu tribes, researches and teaches on the history of architecture, Maori and Pacific architecture and art, and museum studies.More »

Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh

Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh is Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. His research interests include: Native American ethnology and archaeology, heritage management, collaborative methods, social and political uses of history, repatriation, cultural landscapes, and research ethics. More »

Kristen Dobbin

Kristen's research explores the various ways that historical ethnographic photographs are engaged with by Indigenous Sami communities in Scandinavia. Kristen will examine both community-based and collaborative photographic initiatives in order to understand whether, and in what ways, historical photographs and the process of their visual repatriation contribute to a contemporary sense of Sami identity.More »

Rachel F. Giraudo

Rachel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Northridge. She recently completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.More »

Patricia Goff

Dr. Patricia Goff’s current SSHRC-funded research explores the political economy of traditional knowledge. Patricia, an associate professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, found opportunities for synergism when she joined us as an IPinCH Associate Scholar.More »

Kate Hennessy

Website:

Kate Hennessy / Making Culture Lab

First Nations and Aboriginal communities in Canada are increasingly looking towards digital media to revitalize their languages and assert control over how their culture is represented. IPinCH Scholar Associate Kate Hennessy is continuing to both participate in and explore this movement, as she joins the faculty of SFU's School of Interactive Arts and Technology as an Assistant Professor.More »

Alvaro Higueras

With a focus in South America and the Balkans, and experience as a United Nations consultant, IPinCH associate scholar Alvaro Higueras adds to the project’s global scope. Alvaro is currently exploring cultural heritage rights in Peru, where historical and cultural factors have created status differences between Indigenous highland groups and those in the Amazon forest.More »

Hirofumi Kato

Working to make archaeology relevant to the Indigenous Ainu of northern Japan is IPinCH Associate Scholar and Hokkaido University professor Hirofumi Kato. The Ainu were officially recognized as Indigenous peoples by the Japanese government in 2008, marking a new chapter in their long history.More »

Ian McIntosh

Australian-born Ian McIntosh Ph.D. is the Director of International Partnerships at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI). He is an adjunct professor of Anthropology in the IUPUI School of Liberal Arts where he teaches classes on peace and reconciliation in the international arena.More »

Amy Roberts

Amy is a multi-disciplinary researcher with training and experience in the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. In 2003 Amy was awarded her doctorate through Flinders University, South Australia. Her PhD research involved a broad-ranging, interdisciplinary investigation of the points of agreement and conflict between Indigenous peoples and the archaeological discipline. Since 2003 Amy has completed a Graduate Certificate in Applied Anthropology through the University of Western Australia. We are pleased to welcome her as an IPinCH Scholar Associate.
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George Smith

With his experience in cultural heritage management, archaeology curriculum development, and site protection IPinCH associate scholar George S. Smith adds additional international and interdisciplinary perspectives to the project.More »

Post-doctoral Fellows

Melissa Baird

Her research has spanned the globe, but Melissa Baird’s focus has long been rooted in cultural heritage. A new Post-doctoral Associate to IPinCH, Melissa received her Ph.D. in December 2009 from the University of Oregon.More »

Josh Berson

Since 2010 Josh Berson has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, where he is involved in the working group “Endangerment and Its Consequences.” Prior to coming to Berlin, Josh held a visiting fellowship at the Institute for the Human Sciences, Vienna.More »

Rachel Hirsch

Her research on everyday decision-making began with a focus on public views of residential pesticide bans. Now, Rachel Hirsch is interested in what happens next - after citizens are surveyed? Rachel is currently focusing on knowledge translation related to Arctic climate change adaptation policy development. She has rapidly developed a new research program and partnerships since being hired as a joint Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, and York University Postdoctoral Fellow in December 2009. This project is entitled, ‘Sharing research findings in the Canadian Arctic: Assessing the integration of Inuit knowledge in policy communications about climate change related food insecurity’. More »

Natasha Lyons

Collaboration with communities in Canada’s far north has helped shape past and present research of Dr. Natasha Lyons (pictured above with Bandit). Natasha, our first Postdoctoral Associate, is also co-developer of one of the first IPinCH case studies, which examines intellectual property issues affecting the Inuvialuit, including access and information sharing.More »

Sean Robertson

Why is the cultural heritage of some communities considered part of the public domain and subject to being commodified without consent?More »

Students

Claire Poirier

Claire’s research investigates how different ontologies interact through the process of heritage management in the Treaty Six region. She will be working closely with Plains Cree nations in Central Alberta to identify strengths and weaknesses of current Intellectual Property guidelines in the province’s Heritage Resource Act.More »

Sarah Carr-Locke

Sarah’s PhD topic is an examination of how Aboriginal peoples’ intangible heritage and intellectual property are presented in public museums. Her senior supervisor at Simon Fraser University is IPinCH Project Director George Nicholas. She received her M.A.More »

Marina La Salle

Archaeology, ethnography, and history intersect in Marina La Salle’s research based in urban Vancouver, BC. Working towards her Ph.D.More »

Solen Roth

Solen Roth’s doctoral research on Northwest Coast giftware is at the interface of the material expressions of intellectual property with both Indigenous and Western cultural heritage values. As one of IPinCH’s Graduate Student Associates, Solen’s Ph.D. research at the University of British Columbia (UBC) delves into the history of the market of Native Northwest Coast gift products from the 1930s to the present.More »

Joshua Smith

Now a Ph.D. student, working with Regna Darnell at the University of Western Ontario, Joshua Smith was IPinCH’s only undergraduate student Associate. Joshua sees action anthropology as a key to addressing contemporary issues, including the decolonization of research methods and Indigenous knowledge rights. In the final year of his B.A.More »

Adam Solomonian

Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia.

Research key words:

photography; materiality; cultural memory

An interest in the anthropology of photography, materiality, and cultural memory informs Adam Solomonian’s PhD research with the shíshálh Nation on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.More »

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