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IPinCH Graduate Student Fellows

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 is IPinCH Project Director, George Nicholas. She received her M.A. from the University of Northern British Columbia in 2005, which was titled “Sharing the Past: Community-Based Archaeology and Aboriginal People in Canada”.

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Michael Klassen

Ph.D. candidate in Archaeology, Simon Fraser University

Research key words:

Cultural landscapes, indigenous archaeology and traditional knowledge, applied archaeology, legislation and policy, rock art, Northern Plains and Interior Plateau regions, proto-contact and contact period.

IPinCH Fellowship Research:The goal of my IPinCH fellowship is to contribute to the Mookaakin case study from the perspective of archaeology, place and landscape.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. Her 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, including the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. More »

IPinCH Post-doctoral Fellows

Melissa Baird

Melissa Baird’s Fellowship project “It’s All about the Land”: The intersections of Cultural and Environmental Heritages [1] explores, through cultural landscapes and heritage politics, knowledge production about non-Western groups by Western "experts." Melissa will use a Critical Heritage Studies (CHS) framework for analysis of two IPinCH case studies to examine how power and knowledge intersect with the practice, interpretation, and management of heritage. CHS includes insights from studies that encompass new directions in environmental studies, anthropology, history, public policy, philosophy, and law. More »

Alexis Bunten